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One person is dead and at least one more suffered minor injuries after Miley Cyrus ' tour bus crashed and flipped onto its side in Virginia this morning.

Sixty percent of Mexicans living in Virginia are actually American citizens. Mexicans living in Virginia also are more likely to have a job than Virginians overall.

Below is a press release from the Virginia Department of Health on the upcoming statewide smoking ban: VDH COMMISSIONER ASKS VIRGINIANS TO SUPPORT THE COMMONWEALTH BREATHE EASY CHALLENGE To celebrate the upcoming ban on smoking in restaurants, Virginia's Health Commissioner today called on Virginians to show their support for the new law and local ...

Virginia lawmakers learned today that they have a $3.5 billion hole to fill in the next two-year budget as well an estimated $209 million shortfall in the current spending plan.

A bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company.

Civil rights organizations are asking Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to sign an executive order restoring the rights of nearly 300,000 felons before he leaves office in January.

On a slow Friday in March of 1980, then-Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd saw his granddaughter and her schoolmates in the spectators' gallery and decided to give them a lesson with a lengthy impromptu speech on the history of the Senate.

Virginia transportation officials are moving hundreds of millions of dollars from secondary and urban road projects to higher priority Interstate and primary highways.

One of the top priorities of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., has been to represent his fellow West Virginians to the best of his ability in Washington.

Virginia and North Carolina health officials are advising against consuming walleye fish caught in Lake Gaston because of mercury contamination.

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Tuesday, Nov. 17: Historically, government has a lousy record of running businesses.

The bad economy will result in another $250 million to $300 million budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30, House of Delegates money committees were told Tuesday.

The state of Virginia, which already has had to cut $6 billion from the two-year budget ending June 30, 2010, may have to cut $250 million to $300 million, the House Appropriations Committee was told today.

Virginia Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner are pressing federal officials to release disaster aid in the wake of last week's powerful nor'easter that rocked Hampton Roads.

Virginia inmate Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006.

Space shuttle Atlantis is circling Earth with two Virginia natives on board. Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the International Space Station on Wednesday.

The Virginia House of Delegates' Democratic caucus has elected new leadership for the 2010 General Assembly session.

Loading... Del. Phil Hamilton, R-Newport News, speaks during a House Finance Committee meeting at the Capitol in Richmond in 2004.

A former Army counterintelligence worker from Maryland who was convicted of gunning down a northern Virginia couple to win the love of a former stripper is set to become the first inmate to die of electrocution since 2006.

Does the Virginia gubernatorial victory handed Republican Robert F. McDonnell mean that voters support his education agenda? Voters and school-choice advocates won't know the answer until after the General Assembly convenes in January and the governor-elect is sworn in.