Counterterrorism officials have issued security bulletins to police around the nation about terrorists’ desire to attack stadiums, entertainment...

The driver of a Richmond school system bus fled the scene yesterday after hitting a bicycle that was ridden moments earlier by a 12-year-old boy, police...

BOSTON—The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill to allow the governor to name an interim replacement for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The...

Farmville police now say they were inside a Longwood University professor’s house with a California man less than 24 hours before officers would...

Emma Niederbrock, 16, was like many teenagers, longtime family friend James F. Hodgson said. “In the last year and a half, she’d been going...

A weapons charge was withdrawn yesterday against a Richmond police officer accused of pointing a pistol at a man and his son in a traffic-related dispute...

Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor, yesterday leveled his toughest criticism yet of the state’s troubled information-technology agency....

Pitching for African-American votes, Bob McDonnell talks so much about black political icons—most of them Democrats—that it might be easy to...

PARIS—A career diplomat from Bulgaria won a drawn-out race to lead the U.N. agency for culture and education yesterday, defeating an Egyptian candidate...

Deborah Eisenberg had a student conference in the morning and a writing class in the afternoon. It was just a normal day for the University of Virginia...

Wilson Howell No lie—the South Carolina congressman who interrupted President Barack Obama’s health-care speech to Congress is raising money...

Plans for a $40 million interchange at Interstate 295 and Meadowville Road in Chesterfield County are moving forward. Today, the county’s Board of...

When Rebecca Worley’s new neighbors turned out to be 22 construction workers in a single-family house in Chamberlayne Farms, she was not pleased....

Authorities are holding a Stuarts Draft man without bond on charges that he committed a rape more than a decade ago, Augusta County investigator Paul McCormick...

CHARLOTTESVILLE—The Charlottesville government is considering apologizing for its role in Massive Resistance, the failed attempt to keep Virginia...

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine wants Virginia to become the home to major offshore wind-energy projects. Kaine’s office yesterday released a letter, dated...

Hanover The Hanover County Board of Supervisors will meet today at 6 p.m. at the county administration building, 7515 County Complex Road. The board will...

A Virginia death-row inmate who killed two men in Richmond cannot be executed because he is mentally disabled, his attorney told a federal appeals court...

FOREST In an economic downturn, when money is scarce, some may choose to forgo necessary medical procedures—especially when those procedures include...

The 43rd Street Festival of the Arts was held in the Forest Hill section of Richmond. The location in a story on Page B1 on Sunday was incorrect.