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(AP) The Republican Party of Virginia has elected a new chairman after its previous leader resigned. The party said in a Sept. 8 statement that members of the State Central Committee had elected attorney Jack Wilson of Chesterfield to finish ...

DISPUTANTA (AP) A Virginia woman has been found guilty of murder for encouraging her half-brother to fatally shoot a man inside a busy Wendy’s restaurant on Labor Day 2017. Norma Glover was found guilty Sept. 6 of first-degree murder and felony use ...

(AP) Virginia will be home to a real-world testing of new technology aimed at blocking would-be drunk drivers from operating a vehicle. Gov. Ralph Northam plans to launch a new partnership next week between a Virginia transportation company and a ...

(AP) An independent candidate must be removed from the ballot in a competitive Virginia congressional race due to forged voter signatures on her petitions, a judge ruled Sept. 5, saying he found evidence of “out-and-out fraud.” Richmond Circuit Court Judge ...

(AP) The Republican speaker of the House of Delegates has filed a formal appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a court ruling that found 11 House districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered. A federal court ruled in June that ...

NORFOLK (AP) Journalists at two daily newspapers in Tidewater have announced plans to form a union. Reporters and photographers at the Daily Press in Newport News and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk announced in a statement Tuesday that they plan to ...

(AP) U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor has been subpoenaed to testify in a lawsuit that accuses members of his campaign staff of forging signatures to help an independent candidate get on the ballot for the 2nd Congressional District. Democrats are suing ...

A lawyer who refused to participate in his client’s criminal trial after preliminary motions were denied by a judge has agreed to a Virginia State Bar reprimand. John L. Taylor III of Richmond was one of eight lawyers who – ...

(AP) Virginia’s lieutenant governor is going to work in the Northern Virginia and Washington offices of a global law firm. Justin Fairfax will be a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s commercial litigation, trials, and investigations and white-collar defense groups while ...

G. Andrew Nea Jr., pro bono partner at Williams Mullen in Richmond, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Virginia State Bar’s Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award. Nea created the pro bono committee at Williams Mullen and ...