Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring will notify a federal court in Norfolk today that his office will no longer defend the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
In office as Virginia’s governor until earlier this month, Robert F. “Bob” McDonnell, a former state attorney general once considered a prospect for the White House, is now federally indicted…
A Virginia appeals court has ruled Yelp must turn over the identities of seven anonymous reviewers of a carpet cleaning business who did not appear to be actual customers.
The Baltimore Museum of Art is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Virginia woman’s claim to a tiny Renoir painting she says she bought in a “box of junk”…
A Virginia state lawmaker is continuing to recover after suffering stab wounds Tuesday in what law enforcement authorities have described as an attack at his…
A prominent Virginia attorney and state lawmaker was stabbed Tuesday morning by an adult son during an attack at his home, and is in fair condition after being airlifted to…
Overturning a jury verdict that originally awarded $4 million each to two families of victims slain in the April 16, 2007 shooting massacre at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,…
The way authorities and the local newspaper told the story at the time, two lawmen shot each other to death at a Virginia courthouse in 1926 because of a family…
Both the prosecution and the defense objected when a judge in Fairfax County, Va., allowed news media cameras in the courtroom during a recent murder trial.
Once upon a time, a clothesline was a standard feature of most back yards. But concern that publicly airing clean laundry attached with clothespins to a rope or wire was…
Corrected: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is defending his state’s anti-sodomy law in the prosecution of a man accused of demanding oral sex from a 17-year-old girl.
A former assistant attorney general in Virginia claims in a lawsuit that she was improperly fired because of suspicions she called her boss an “egomaniac” in an anonymous comment on…
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been cleared of wrongdoing by a Richmond prosecutor who looked into Cuccinelli’s late disclosure of stock holdings in a diet-supplement company and gifts from…
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