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Your donations to the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund help provide a brighter holiday to families struggling to make ends meet. The fund provides toys,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space...

An amusing prank caught on video involving a faulty car alarm and a couple of “Hidden Honkers” won three Bealeton friends $10,000—and...

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Death-row inmate Larry Bill Elliott was executed last night for the 2001 murder of Dana Thrall of Prince William County. Elliott, 60, a former Army intelligence...

VERAPAZ, El Salvador—Tears streamed down Elsy Portillo’s badly bruised face yesterday as she walked behind coffins carrying her mother and...

ROANOKE—Nine years ago, when her boyfriend was charged with shooting her, Angela Paschal would not testify against him. She figured he deserved a...

WILLIAMSBURG—When Eastern State Hospital opens its new adult mental-health treatment center next summer, at least 150 patients will be housed in...

Adjusted pass rates represent achievement in all tested grade levels and allowances made for transfer students and limited English proficient students,...

Efforts to create a unity government aimed at ending Honduras’ four-month political standoff dragged past yesterday’s deadline, with the overthrown...

The prior estimate for Colfax Corp.‘s full-year internal sales growth was a decline of 6 percent to 8 percent. The range was incorrect in the Earnings...

Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings, and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker...

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12345 (R) x-Will Morefield8,606 (D) Dan Bowling*6,450 6Counties of Bland, Giles (part), Pulaski (part), Tazewell (part) and Wythe (part) 35 of 35 precincts...

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A Henrico County man who died after crashing into a guardrail Saturday was one of three motorcyclists who eluded police on Interstate 95 while racing in...

The donor organizations of two of the Local Heroes recognized recently by Bank of America Charitable Foundation were switched in the Notable Gifts column...

JERUSALEM—The Palestinians yesterday accused U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks after...

WASHINGTON—Lender CIT Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday, seeking to restructure its debt while trying to keep loans flowing...

VIRGINIA BEACH—Raymond Strand built his home on a $15 million plot just blocks from the Oceanfront, with golf-course views and country club neighbors....

NEWPORT NEWS—Christopher Newport University President Paul Trible sent out fundraising notes for Del. Phil A. Hamilton, R-Newport News, on letters...

A judge ordered Richmond property owner Oliver Lawrence this week to pay $176,000 in fines and spend 70 days in jail. Assistant City Attorney Greg Lukanuski,...

BAGHDAD—Militants linked to al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility yesterday for a pair of powerful truck bombs that killed 155 people and wounded...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—An eBay auction planned by abortion foes to raise money for the man accused of killing Wichita, Kan., abortion doctor George Tiller...

CHICAGO—A man who visited a Danish newspaper early this year feigning interest in placing ads actually was a terrorism operative from Chicago who...

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“Genesis: A Conversation with R. Crumb and Françoise Mouly” will be held tonight at Richmond CenterStage’s Carpenter Theatre. An...