Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell’s transition team has announced additional placements from the gubernatorial campaign staff. McDonnell tapped Janet Polarek...

A Virginia Military Institute freshman cadet collapsed after a training exercise and was pronounced dead yesterday shortly after noon at Carilion Stonewall...

History told Virginia Democrats it wasn’t going to be easy. For the past 32 years, the party that wins the White House has lost the governorship—a...

Two of the six Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation last night voted against President Barack Obama’s 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care...

Big win notwithstanding, Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell will start his administration hampered by a slashed state budget, a politically divided legislature...

FAIRFAX—A man who admitted murdering his ex-girlfriend by stabbing her with a pair of scissors has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Sayed Hashemi,...

LEXINGTON—A Virginia Military Institute freshman cadet collapsed after a training exercise and was pronounced dead shortly after noon todayat Carilion...

CHARLOTTESVILLE—More than 500 volunteers are continuing the search for a Virginia Tech student who went missing in Charlottesville last month. Morgan...

DANVILLE, Va.—Shorewood Packaging Corp. has cut 33 jobs at its Danville plant because of low customer demand. Plant general manager Mike Fenton says...

EDEN, N.C.—Authorities say a 37-year-old Virginia man is dead and two other people injured in a shooting outside a North Carolina nightclub. Multiple...

Authorities have charged a former county prison guard with bribery as part of a ring they say delivered drugs to inmates. For months April M. Hogsett,...

CHARLOTTESVILLE—A Crozet man who bilked more than $5.3 million from investors in a decade-long Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 7½ years in prison...

One said she has had an uncanny ability to find four-leaf clovers since childhood. Another wanted to find anything that could help. “I feel like...

Three of the six Democrats in Virginia’s U.S. House delegation remain undecided heading into this weekend’s pivotal vote on President Barack...

A Crozet man will spend more than seven years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than $5 million from more than 30 investors.

The Virginia Department of Forestry’s online tree seedling store is now open. The department has expanded its annual offerings to include seedlings...

Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli is looking to predecessors from both parties for guidance on running the state’s law office, as well as enlisting...

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has accepted a part-time teaching post at the University of Richmond after he leaves the Executive Mansion in January. The school...

Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli is looking to predecessors from both political parties for guidance on how to run the state’s law office. Cuccinelli...

LYNCHBURG—About 400 members of a Lynchburg-based Virginia National Guard battalion are being mobilized for a security mission in Iraq. Maj. Gen....

CLERMONT, N.Y.—The pilot of a single-engine plane has escaped serious injury after his newly bought aircraft flipped over while making a crash landing...

NORFOLK—Norfolk State University President Carolyn Meyers is in line for a new job. Meyers has been named one of three finalists for the top job...

Virginia Republicans gained at least five seats in Tuesday’s elections for the House of Delegates, boosting Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell ahead of his...

Even before the first tallies were in Tuesday night, the sign outside the Westin Richmond Hotel meeting room where the Virginia Democratic Party convened...

In his first day as governor-elect, Bob McDonnell yesterday announced his transition committee leaders, including Tom Farrell, chairman and CEO of the...

The family of Morgan D. Harrington is seeking volunteers to redouble the efforts to locate the Virginia Tech student who disappeared Oct. 17 after leaving...

States that contribute pollution to the Chesapeake Bay must have controls in place by 2017 to reduce that pollution 60 percent, federal officials say....

President Barack Obama yesterday nominated two more judges, both from North Carolina, for the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If appointed,...

How far right? Political columnist Jeff Schapiro says governor-elect Bob McDonnell is a conservative with the good sense to gloss over some of his edgier...

Advisers include Tom Farrell, head of Dominion Resources; Attorney General Bill Mims; and Kay Coles James, a cabinet official for Gov. George Allen and...