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Transportation officials have a long wish list for the first $180 million in funding expected to come in the next year from tax increases in Gov.

Roanoke Co., VA - The Roanoke City Sheriff's Department set up a checkpoint of sorts downtown on Wednesday to raise money for a good cause.

Del. Charniele Herring has traveled around this country, but the first African American woman to chair the Democratic Party of Virginia says, "I just love Virginia; it's been very good to me," Ironic words coming from this great-great-granddaughter of a Lynchburg slave who today leads the state's political party that once upheld segregation in the ... (more)

Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine introduced The Virginia Outer Continental Shelf Energy Production Act of 2013 on Wednesday.

Robert Falkner, shown in a 2011 file photo, is back in custody after a long history of avoiding incarceration.

Virginia has been ranked the third-best state for starting a business, according to a new report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Fountain Springs Golf Course: Lot #26 at golf course. Overlooks island green. Ideal for home.

AAA Mid-Atlantic said Wednesday that it expects slightly more than 1 million Virginians to travel during the holiday weekend.

Longtime volunteer Cindi Verser tells The Virginian-Pilot that the Army's departure from nearby Fort Monroe has created a shortage of volunteers to do the annual tribute.

Opponents of uranium mining in Virginia met with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on the issue and they said he's solidly in their corner.

Federal officials approved a four-year Virginia cost-saving experiment intended to simplify and consolidate health care coverage for about 78,000 Virginians who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, a major change Gov.

When the Virginia GOP nominated right-wing Bishop E.W. Jackson for the state's lieutenant governor post last weekend, it might have anticipated outrage from progressives upset with Jackson's outright antigay, antichoice, Islamophobic stances.

State Police statistics show both violent and property crimes fell about 3 percent in Virginia in 2012 compared to the year before.

Damascus Police Chief Bill Nunley says the driver in the Saturday incident that injured about 50 people had a medical issue that caused him to lose control of his car.

The last serious brush in Virginia was with Irene in 2011, knocking out power to huge sections of Richmond and Hampton Roads, and it breached many of the barrier islands on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

Virinia is one of the best states in the country to bike, according to new rankings from the League of American Bicyclists.

Nearly 8,000 Virginia Republican officeholders and activists gathered Saturday at the Greater Richmond Convention Center to select the party's candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

The pit bulls were running wild in Northwest Washington's Brightwood neighborhood, a scene so chaotic that D.C. police said in a report that "grown men were jumping fences to get away from the dogs" on that Sunday afternoon in January.

The Virginian-Pilot reports the officer struck by the car was taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries that aren't life-threatening. Police spokeswoman Karen Parker-Chesson says police were called to a bank in the Ghent neighborhood for a report of someone trying to pass a bad check.

Del. Dave Albo was given three awards last week for his 2013 voting record by the Virginia Chamber of Commerce .