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NORFOLK (AP) Prosecutors say charges have been dropped against a Virginia woman who sent her daughter to school with a recording device after the 9-year-old said she was being bullied. Sarah Sims told WAVY-TV in Portsmouth that she repeatedly reached ...

The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission is moving and its phone numbers have changed. All fax and phone numbers starting with 804-367 have been updated, the commission said in an email announcement. Those 367 phone numbers no longer work, the agency said. All toll-free ...

McLEAN (AP) Federal prosecutors and lawyers for a former Louisiana congressman who famously hid $90,000 in his freezer are working on an agreement for his resentencing on corruption charges, according to court documents filed in the case. Former U.S. Rep. ...

(AP) A group of Chinese investors is suing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe over his past work for a troubled electric car maker that relied heavily on foreign money from people trying to obtain residency in the United States. The investors ...

NORFOLK (AP) A Virginia woman who sent her daughter to school with a recording device after the 9-year-old said she was being bullied has been charged with a felony. Multiple news outlets report that Norfolk police charged Sarah Sims with ...

(AP) A Democratic tidal wave on Election Day in Virginia three weeks ago has left chaos in its wake, with control of the House of Delegates still undecided and no end to the dispute in sight. Lawsuits, threats and recriminations ...

PORTSMOUTH (AP) A judge has refused to dismiss an indictment against a Virginia city council member facing fraud and forgery charges after a hearing behind closed doors with attorneys. Portsmouth councilman Mark Whitaker was indicted in April on 20 felony ...

NORFOLK (AP) The chairwoman of Virginia’s parole board said it will reinterpret a three-strikes law in a way that could free hundreds of inmates, The Virginian-Pilot reported Saturday . The now-defunct version of the law has kept offenders in prison for decades. ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) A federal judge on Wednesday rejected an effort to block the Virginia elections board from certifying the results in a House of Delegates race where election officials say some voters got the wrong ballots. Three voters, represented by ...

FALLS CHURCH (AP) Nurimaro Park, 26, is one of about 800,000 people who had benefited from an Obama-era program that extended protections to immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children. While he knew the significance of the protection he ...