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Virginia reports recycling rate of 38.5 percent in 2008. Recent figures from the Commonwealth of Virginia find that the recycling rate in the state held firm last year.

Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.

As the World Trade Center and Pentagon were ablaze on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Secret Service's presidential protective detail was informed that a "Korean airliner has been hijacked" en route to San Francisco, prompting already-skittish agents to worry about another wave of terrorist attacks.

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and first lady Anne Holton stood outside the Executive Mansion today to preside over a Thanksgiving tradition that dates to the late 1600s - Virginia's Indian tribes paying tribute to the governor with an offering of wild game.

A Tazewell dentist pleaded guilty Tuesday to writing bogus prescriptions for hydrocodone to feed his own addiction for more than a decade.

Virginia health officials are urging people to be especially vigilant in protecting themselves and others against the so-called swine flu this Thanksgiving.

When the Defense Intelligence Agency brings an estimated 800 employees to Rivanna Station in September, it will join the nearly $110 million defense-related industry already headquartered in Central Virginia.

Columbia Gas of Virginia is lowering rates for its customers. Below is a press release on the price reduction: Winter Natural Gas Bills for Columbia Gas of Virginia Customers Will Be 12 Percent Lower Than Last Year Columbia Gas of Virginia customers will pay 12 percent less this year than a year ago for their winter natural gas bills.

The results stayed the same, but the turnout grew after a certification of the Nov.

The governors of Virginia and Maryland say it would be wrong for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington to quit providing social services if the District of Columbia approves gay marriage.

A nonprofit group has until Dec. 3 to identify the source of voter information it planned to use in a mass mailing to 350,000 Virginia households.

This morning's Washington Post has this fascinating and important new article headlined "Tracking sex-crime offenders gets trickier: Violator registry is growing as tech-savvy predators put a greater burden on officers." Here are excerpts: The nationwide crackdown on child pornography and other sex offenses has created severe manpower shortages and ...

Virginia's fiscal picture remained dim, as a panel of state legislators and business leaders got another look at prospects for the state's upcoming budget.

The Virginia Department of Health says about one-third of the homicides that occurred in the state between 1999 and 2007 were domestic-related. In a report released Monday, the agency says males were more likely to die in what it called the "crossfire" of intimate partner violence.

Triumph for Gov. Tim Kaine: Smoking is banned in most restaurants and bars in the Commonwealth starting December 1. It's an amazing victory for Virginia non-puffers in this state famous for those amazing tobacco auctions where auctioneers for decades held the house spellbound when they spewed a semi-intelligible auction yodel -- with the punch ...

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will unveil its 150-million dollar expansion at the grand opening May 1, 2010.

Housing Virginia has announced it will publish a quarterly Housing Affordability Index for the state starting in 2010.

AAA Mid-Atlantic expects more Virginians on the highways this Thanksgiving weekend.

Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated _ beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

This week, West Virginia celebrated one of the most significant and monumental milestones in our state and nation's history, as U.S. Sen.