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(AP) The former owner of a Richmond assisted living facility pleaded guilty on Sept. 15 to health care fraud after spending more than $800,000 meant for residents’ care on travel, gambling expenses and personal debts, federal prosecutors said. Mable Jones, ...

APPALACHIA (AP) No criminal charges will be filed against a Southwest Virginia sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a 16-year-old, who stabbed him during a confrontation in July, a prosecutor announced on Sept. 14. An investigation found that the deputy acted ...

Nine statewide bar groups have been asked by the chairs of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Courts of Justice Committee to evaluate candidates for a pending Supreme Court of Virginia vacancy. In an Aug. 31 letter, Sen. John ...

Gov. Ralph Northam has appointed Cynthia V. Bailey as counsel to the governor. Northam announced the appointment via a press release on Sept. 10. Bailey previously served as a deputy attorney general under Mark Herring from 2014 until 2019 and ...

(AP) Virginia’s new bipartisan redistricting commission says it is scrapping the regional approach it had already begun on drawing new legislative maps and is now directing its map drawers to provide statewide maps. In a statement issued prior to the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) A Tidewater Virginia man will be sentenced in December after pleading guilty to taking part in the riot earlier this year at the U.S. Capitol. Jacob “Jake” Hiles, 42, pleaded guilty Sept. 9 by video in federal ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A military contractor being sued for alleged complicity in the torture of inmates at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison argued on Sept. 10 that recent Supreme Court cases make clear it can’t be held liable for misconduct that occurred ...

(AP) Now that an iconic statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has been taken down from its perch above Richmond’s Monument Avenue, crews plan to remove a piece of history from its gigantic pedestal. A time capsule from 1887 that state ...

NORFOLK (AP) A former Virginia police officer has been indicted on charges stemming from his attempts to produce child pornography, receiving images and trying to access it on a cell phone, a federal prosecutor said. Nathan Allen, Jr., 33, was ...

USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page will moderate the first Virginia gubernatorial debate later this month at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, per a release from the school. Page, a veteran journalist, has interviewed the past 10 ...