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The Roanoke Times takes a look today at lawyer-turned-author David Baldacci and his life on Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake. Best quote: “Lawyers are paid to tell persuasive stories. So are novelists. Sometimes I think some of the best fiction I ...

The much-litigated custody of 6-year-old Isabella Miller-Jenkins was in court again today, this time before the Supreme Court of Virginia Mathew Staver, the head of Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University law school, told the court that the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Supreme Court of Virginia

John Brownlee, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, will step down in a month after seven years as the region’s top federal prosecutor. He confirmed today that he is considering a bid for the Republican nomination for ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts

As reported on SCOTUSblog: In a widely splintered decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for death-row executions to resume across the country, concluding that the most common method of lethal injection does not violate the Constitution. The ...

Tagged with: Gov. Tim Kaine U.S. Supreme Court

To say that Jimmy Roger Lane was caught with the goods would be an understatement. In one pants pocket he had 62 tablets of oxycodone , 17 tablets of hydrocodone and two plastic bags with a total of $4,128 in ...

Tagged with: Criminal Virginia Court of Appeals

Scratch one name from the list of potential candidates for Attorney General. According to this item from the Daily Progress, Charlottesville delegate Rob Bell will trade a campaign for the pleasures of fatherhood. Update: Not to be outdone, Republican State ...

In reinforcing the rule of law, the Nuremberg Trials established and highlighted the fact of the Holocaust, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn. said Saturday evening at the Virginia Holocaust Museum. Dodd is the son of Thomas J. Dodd, the late ...

An attorney told the Supreme Court of Virginia today that the court has never addressed the relationship between a college and its students. Wyatt B. Durrette Jr., representing alumnae and students of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, contended that the relationship is ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia

The pit bull that belonged to the son of Elsie Campbell was a bad dog all right. So bad, in fact, that Campbell wouldn’t get out of her car when she went to the house that she owned and allowed ...

Tagged with: Personal Injury Supreme Court of Virginia

State law and a memorandum of understanding did not require the State Corporation Commission to give Allegheny Power a rate increase, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled today in an unpublished order. The Supreme Court said that Allegheny had asked ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia