The new legislative substitute to Senate Bill 1 and House Bill 1243—the product of a conference committee of three senators and three delegates—is expected to be approved today in both houses.

The Virginia National Guard will bid farewell Tuesday to the 170 soldiers of its 1710th Transportation Company, which is being called up for duty in Iraq.

The General Assembly session will be extended at least a day because of a budget impasse, House majority leader Morgan Griffith says,

Stephen Murmer, the “pioneer of butt painting” according to Ripley’s Believe It or Not, will have a $65,000 cushion for being fired as a Chesterfield County art teacher.

Author says that for boomers, hospice and palliative care are excellent end-of-life choices

Senate Democrats have proposed statewide tax increases on wholesale gasoline and vehicle purchases to cover road maintenance, along with additional tax increases in northern Virginia and Hampton Roads for roads projects

Governor Tim Kaine introduced the bill allowing extended voting hours after a winter storm snarled traffic in northern Virginia, preventing perhaps thousands of voters from casting votes in last month’s presidential primary.

While more people are visiting national parks nationwide, fewer people are coming to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

House and Senate budget negotiators hurled insults at each other yesterday but continued to talk, hoping to forestall an extended General Assembly session

Because of tumbling state revenues, the Virginia Department of Transportation will have to cut $1.1 billion from its six-year highway and transit program

The legislation would have allowed the death penalty for any accomplice who shared the primary killer’s intent to kill.

James E. Carr, 20, has admitted to shooting James W. Woolfolk III early Thurday in a house on Joplin Avenue near Jefferson Davis Highway, in South Richmond.

The 12 negotiators were expected to meet again Friday afternoon.

Tazewell County woman is suing the county, school officials and several school employees for $25 million in the death of her son, Kevin Stallard II.

In Dendron, no one remembered to run for Town Council or mayor this year.

Winchester police said the unidentified 16-year-old freshman - carrying two pellet guns in a bag - was arrested near the school Thursday

Judge has ruled that the owner of a Staunton adult video store and one of his employees, both charged with selling obscene material, will go to trial June 17.

A $25 million lawsuit alleges a Richlands High School freshman with a heart condition died in September, after a gym teacher forced him to do wind sprints in 90-degree heat.

A judge has ruled that the owner of a Staunton adult video store and one of his employees, both charged with selling obscene material, will go to trial June 17.

The bills would extend the amount of time borrowers have to repay a payday loan and effectively limit how many borrowers can get each year

The Commerce and Labor Committee voted 19-3 Thursday to send a revised version of Governor Tim Kaine’s proposal to the House floor. The measure affects people with high-interest, subprime loans that have been largely responsible for a spike in foreclosures.

House budget negotiators today withdrew a proposed 2 percent raise for public school teachers after accusing Senate budget negotiators of “drawing a line in the sand.“

A bail bondsman was shot to death while seeking a wanted person today in South Richmond, and the suspect in the shooting surrendered several hours later after a standoff at a nearby house

The measure was designed to help police track stolen goods.

The organization says 22 people died in farm work-related accidents in 2007, compared to 11 in 2006.

Congressman Frank Wolf is urging Virginia lawmakers to freeze the cost of Dulles Greenway tolls, which are set to gradually increase by 60 percent through 2012.

Va. man charged in international child porn probe

We give diamonds to the special people in our lives. Now, one Fluvanna County man is giving diamonds to remember the lives lost during the Virginia Tech shootings.

Federal weather experts are in Wise County today, trying to determine if a tornado is responsible for yesterday’s destruction of six homes in Big Stone Gap.

The expansion of the so-called triggerman rule is an effort to expose close accomplices in murder cases to capital punishment