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(AP) Richmond’s top prosecutor said July 29 she won’t file criminal charges against police officers who deployed tear gas on demonstrators gathered at the city’s Robert E. Lee statue in 2020 to protest police violence. In a statement, Richmond Commonwealth’s ...

FALLS CHURCH (AP) A Virginia judge has entered a default judgment against a Libyan military commander after he repeatedly failed to show up for depositions in a federal lawsuit in which he is accused of war crimes. The exact amount ...

The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission received more than 48,000 reported major workplace injuries and more than 69,000 minor workplace injuries last year. The numbers were revealed as part of the commission’s 2021 annual report, which was released July 25. Fairfax ...

ASHBURN (AP) Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder has begun testifying before a congressional committee investigating the NFL team’s history of workplace misconduct. A spokesperson for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform confirmed Snyder began giving his deposition July ...

(AP) A Virginia company and its owner have agreed to pay $310,000 to resolve allegations that they violated federal and state law by submitting false bills to Medicare and Medicaid, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Jacob Patterson, 66 ...

(AP) Amber Heard notified a Virginia court July 21 that she will appeal the $10.35 million judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp during a high-profile defamation trial that exposed the inner workings of their troubled marriage. Heard’s lawyers filed a ...

FAIRFAX (AP) A judge in Virginia on July 22 denied efforts to keep documents sealed in the case of a man with alleged neo-Nazi sympathies who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s parents. The ruling follows motions by The Washington ...

Petersburg City Attorney Anthony C. Williams has been appointed to the Virginia Criminal Justice Services Board, one of six people Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed to the board on July 12. Williams served as city attorney for Winchester prior to taking ...

The chairman of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission has been named vice president of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators’ Board, according to a release from the VWCC.

(AP) A federal appeals court July 21 upheld a ruling by a lower court that dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force members of the state’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates to face an unscheduled election this year. A three-judge panel of ...