Students who successfully pass Advanced Placement exams - and their teachers - will be rewarded with $100 incentives at selected Virginia high schools beginning next school year.

Investigators say 41-year-old Jesper Lundberg, of Jarfalla, Sweden, met an undercover Arlington police detective online and arranged to pay to have sex with the detective’s fictitious 14-year-old daughter.

Spokesman Bill Hayden of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality said Friday the agency is following up on a report from a fisherman that he saw about 20 dead smallmouth bass on Wednesday.

Barack Obama’s spiritual mentor will preach
next month in Norfolk.

National Geographic Traveler magazine is
teaming up with the Appalachian Regional Commission to promote
driving tours in Appalachia.

Robert Newcomb told WWBT that the robber left, then returned and held him at gunpoint as he went through his prescriptions, looking for painkillers.

Board member Vivian Thomson said the board voted Thursday to take charge of the permit case because they were concerned that the DEQ’s proposed limits for pollutants “were not stringent enough.“

Tony Taylor released from prison after completing two-month sentence.

The gunman, whom police identified as William T. Smith, 52, emerged from his apartment just before 5 p.m. with an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9mm pistol and began shooting at the shocked group of maintenance workers, said Virginia Beach police officer Margie Long.

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries said the men face 13 felony charges and about 150 misdemeanor charges.

Governor Tim Kaine says he has new plan to help problems on Virginia Roads

At least 150 investors in 25 states will recover a fraction of their losses from what federal authorities say was a $21 million Ponzi scheme run by a West Virginia man.

National, Dulles airports open security fast lanes

State Police want to make the message clear, “Move over on the road when police have someone pulled over.“  So, troopers unveiled a new sign that will be put up on Virginia highways.

Gilmore campaign alleges the AP article contains factual errors

As the nation approaches the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, a Virginia Commonwealth University-created blood-clotting product is one step closer to getting into the hands of U.S. soldiers.

But the flake is back.  The sisters say the Land of Lincoln twin is still available after all.

Attorneys for a city council member in Virginia want a federal court to overturn a judgment that an opening council prayer mentioning “Jesus” violates the Constitution.

The Navy says a tugboat is towing the Virginia-built ship along the East Coast. It should arrive Saturday, passing up the Delaware Bay and River on Friday afternoon

Jury recommends jail time for security guard who shot family pet

Attendence up at Busch Gardens Europe in Williamsburg

Former Governor Jim Gilmore was chairman of a Bear Stearns subsidiary that was set up to market some of its highest-risk securities.

A federal prosecutor assigned to fight gang activity in the Shenandoah Valley will continue his work with the Virginia attorney general’s office.

Someone bought the September 27th winning Cash 5 ticket at a Food Lion store in Gloucester and hasn’t redeemed it.

Two of four Virginia men charged with taking part in a cockfighting ring in Page County have pleaded guilty to federal charges.

The average price in Virginia on Tuesday was $3.21 a gallon — 30 cents a gallon higher than 30 days ago, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic.

Green Co. Deputy gets prison time in sex case

U.S Marshals say they’ve captured a man wanted for kidnapping, armed robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon, and other charges in California, here in Virginia.

Last month, state officials approved a spate of changes in regulations covering the harvesting of blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay to try to restore the dwindling crab population.

The judge said the company would be summoned through a notice published in Switzerland, the home of its parent company, and that Philip Morris would have 30 days from the publication to defend the lawsuit in the Nigerian court