Three misdemeanor charges against State Sen. Joe Morrissey alleging violations of polling regulations after he interacted with voters and elec…
NORFOLK — Authorities in Virginia say they've arrested a man who they stabbed to death a woman and a baby.
A federal judge will hold an evidentiary hearing on one claim — but tossed out the remaining ones — raised in an appeal by a University of Vir…
The man's young son accidentally shot himself in the hand; the case is one of the first to be prosecuted under a new Virginia law that boosts …
David Oranchak, who lives in Roanoke County and studied at Virginia Tech, is among a trio of international code-breakers who recently decoded …
A new law that attempts to give inmates an incentive to straighten out their lives and reduce their time in custody will take effect in 2022.
George Huguely's write habeas corpus argues that the court should vacate his conviction and sentence or order an evidentiary hearing. This lat…
To lose a loved one to an overdose after years of struggling with substance use disorder is difficult enough. And too often, experts say, it i…
“This is about trying to achieve justice," Del. Chris Hurst, D-Montgomery, said about his effort to loosen up Virginia's open records law on c…
A Stafford County woman who burned her husband to death more than three years ago was ordered Thursday to serve 38 years and three months in prison.
A Powhatan County woman who killed her former boyfriend's 10-month-old pit bull puppy by hanging it from a tree with an extension cord was sen…
Derrick Stewart had a plan in mind when he went to see Pastor Alvin Murdock back in the summer of 2016.
More cities across the country are adopting or experimenting with alternatives to sending police to calls when someone is having a mental heal…
In an unusual ruling after three days of trial proceedings, a judge tossed out capital murder and related charges against Darcel Nathaniel Mur…
Thirty-one Virginia prison inmates with COVID-19 have died since the start of the pandemic, more than half of them at a Southside prison for o…
The precautions, prompted by COVID-19, affect courthouse operations and have been extended 10 times since March.
A new Southwest Virginia chapter of the National Lawyers Guild is focused on legal observation.
Virginia prison officials are reporting an 11th coronavirus-related death at the hard-hit Deerfield Correctional Center, home to many geriatri…
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Attorneys for a man accused of killing an Appalachian Trail hiker in Southwest Virginia last year intend to assert an insanity defense, accord…
A Mineral woman Tuesday became the fifth person to receive a prison term for participating in the 2018 slaying and dismemberment of 19-year-ol…
A woman who spent more than $100,000 of a Stafford County company’s money on such things as a wedding planner and flights to Miami for a butto…
Circuit Court Judge Timothy K. Sanner has ordered the removal of a portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from its prominent position i…
A court has determined that a Confederate battle flag erected in 2018 in Louisa County does not count as a war monument.Â
A Virginia inmate who said he was an informant against a dangerous white supremacist prison gang has been moved to an out-of-state prison as h…
A Franklin County jail inmate who escaped custody on Saturday was back behind bars by Sunday evening.
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