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ROANOKE (AP) Developers of a controversial pipeline project are asking a federal judge to find members of a western Virginia family in contempt of court and to order U.S. marshals to remove them from tree stands where they are protesting ...

CHATHAM (AP) The federal government has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit over Virginia’s ban on uranium mining. Attorneys for the Department of Justice and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission filed a brief with the high court ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A federal judge is weighing whether to toss out some counts of convictions in four terrorism cases after a Supreme Court ruling struck down a similarly worded law this week. The Supreme Court on April 17 struck down ...

(AP) Virginia will receive nearly $10 million in federal grant money to help combat the opioid crisis. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced April 19 its second year of funding through the Opioid State Targeted Response program. ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A lawsuit by voters who say they were libeled should be dismissed, according to a Virginia law firm and an affiliated group that helped former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory defeat a last-ditch campaign to disqualify votes ...

NORFOLK (AP) A Norfolk woman has been sentenced to 10 years and nine months in prison for fraud schemes including one that stole inmate identities. 50-year-old Teresa Gallop was sentenced April 18 for two fraud schemes she started within a ...

Thinking of hauling a big poster to the Supreme Court of Virginia to help illustrate your arguments? How about the crumpled bumper undergirding your client’s trauma claim? Better get permission before bringing such demonstrative exhibits to oral arguments at the ...

(AP) The Virginia House of Delegates has approved a state budget that would expand Medicaid eligibility to about 400,000 low-income adults. The Republican-led House approved the state spending plan April 17 with bipartisan support, but the measure still has to ...

Richmond lawyer Curtis M. Hairston Jr. is the new chair of the Character and Fitness Committee of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, replacing longtime leader Henry M. Sackett III of Lynchburg. Sackett resigned in September after serving as chair ...

(AP) Over the past 14 years, Richard Walker went from dodging incarceration to running a volunteer organization aimed at helping other ex-offenders stay clean and out of prison. The efforts of groups like his are one reason Virginia has the ...