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

It doesn’t sound like a lot of money, but the measure generated considerable debate on the House floor Wednesday. The bill would double the court filing fee to $10, with the additional money going to boost compensation for Legal Aid attorneys.

The legislation does cover many items, including postcards—which House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, happens to collect.  Griffith put the skids on the bill that otherwise was sailing along, delaying consideration of the bill in the House of Delegates.  Among his concerns with the bill is that it does not specify how old an item must be to be considered an antique—and be exempt from the bill.

  It was the governor’s second veto in three years of the guns-in-cars proposal, which he called contrary to existing law by allowing those without a background check and training to conceal a handgun.

The House of Delegates has rejected legislation prohibiting police officers from asking crime victims and witnesses about their immigration status.

The state Department of Taxation says that so far, 85 percent of individual income tax returns are being submitted over the Internet using a computer and tax-preparation software.

If you’ve ever said you’d give $5 to avoid the lines at the DMV, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is.

The storms knocked out power to about 10,000 people across the Commonwealth

There were 40 train accidents in Virginia last year, compared to 53 in 2006 and 55 in 2005.

Virginia’s Smithfield Foods, the fifth-largest U.S. beef producer, shares rose $1.50, or 5.4 percent, to $29.38 in morning trading.

Four dolphins stranded on Eastern Shore euthanized

Money for public schools, particularly pay for teachers, remained Tuesday as the chief obstacle for a dozen legislators negotiating the final shape of a new, $78 billion budget.

Legislation sponsored by Delegate Bill Janis of Henrico County applies to drivers under 21 whose blood alcohol content registers between .02 percent and .08 percent, which is the legal threshold for intoxication.

The bill requires large commercial dog breeding operations to get a business license and submit to inspections by local animal control officers. It also imposes strict record-keeping requirements.

Voting largely along party lines, the Senate passed Democratic Senator George Barker’s bill 22 to 18. Governor Tim Kaine asked Barker to sponsor the bill after a winter storm prevented perhaps thousands of Virginians from voting in last month’s presidential primaries.

The University of Virginia requested the bill to protect personal information, such as Social Security numbers, net worth and marital status, of its donors or potential benefactors.

Governor Tim Kaine has vetoed two bills that could have resulted in more concealed weapons in cars and restaurants.

West Virginia’s Legislature has passed a bill that would give Bluefield, Virginia, two seats on the sanitary board run by its Mountain State counterpart.

About 20 people were hurt - none seriously - when two school buses and a car collided in a Harrisonburg intersection.

Kaine’s office has scheduled the first three meetings next week in Staunton, Petersburg and Newport News. He plans to hold more before the General Assembly’s veto session.