The purported molestation victim recanted. A judge ordered the convicted prisoner freed. But the story doesn’t have a happy ending, at least not yet, for the wrongly convicted man who…
A Virginia judge has ruled that the state department of motor vehicles exceeded its authority last year when revoked a former U.S. Army sergeant’s vanity license plate, which could be…
Updated: As what is expected to be an epic storm sweeps into the East Coast from Florida to Canada and could hit the Northeast especially hard, courts and law firms…
Federal authorities say a Harvard Law School graduate who has been a fugitive for 25 years is in jail awaiting trial as a suspect in an unrelated case involving $100…
A Virginia lawyer is suing a Washington, D.C., bar for $500,000, claiming bouncers accidentally severed his pinkie finger while ejecting him from the popular nightspot.
A Virginia woman allegedly trying to help her boyfriend hide from Maryland authorities apparently took a look at a sheriff’s Facebook page to see if law enforcement officers were looking…
For years, users have been blamed when malware infects their computers and repeatedly warned not to open attachments from unknown email senders or download software from dubious sources.
More than a decade after being wrongly convicted of an elderly woman’s murder, Michael Wayne Hash left the Culpeper County, Va., courthouse Monday a free man, with the case against…
A former law student at the University of Virginia has taken a plea in what authorities described as a registrar’s office surveillance camera scheme intended to intercept a law firm’s…
A visibly agitated Virginia man facing a capital triple homicide case was unrestrained Wednesday at a competency hearing, as defense counsel requested.
Angry after his wife of 20 years left him, Ronnie Lee Durham, who is now known as Ronnie Lee Johnson, managed to persuade Virginia authorities that she was the abusive…
In an unusual outright rejection of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services decision about a naturalization petition, a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., last month said, in a 90-page opinion,…
Matrimonial lawyer David DeFazio took a day off from work on Friday after having reportedly outrun a gunman Thursday afternoon as the man—who police say is a client’s ex-husband—leveled a…
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