A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping
Intent on making Virginia a national energy power, Gov. Bob McDonnell is lobbying for an expansion of the 2.9 million offshore acres the government has
Congressional members are asking the top U.S. fire official to declare defective Chinese drywall a fire hazard.
President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that
One of three Maritime Administration cargo ships that sailed to Haiti after an earthquake devastated the island nation has returned to Virginia waters.
Students from Virginia and four other states are putting their analytical and engineering skills to the test at a two-day robotics competition in Richmond.
A man who killed a teen girl and then bragged about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty was executed Thursday.
Fairfax County police have arrested a Kentucky man over allegations that he sexually assaulted two boys while serving as a pastor in northern Virginia.
A Richmond man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on dogfighting-related charges.
Paper manufacturer Mercury Paper is investing more than $21 million to expand its Shenandoah County facility and transform it into its North American
State funding for Virginia's higher-education system is continuing to shrink, and colleges and universities say they'll have to continue raising tuition and
Fairfax County is attributing a rise in the number of suspected illegal immigrants it turned over to federal officials to a criminal records sharing program.
The winter's storms have blown a large hole in the Virginia Department of Transportation's maintenance budget.
The parents of Morgan Harrington say the slain Virginia Tech student's bones were shattered.
Virginia Tech is urging calm as e-mails and Internet postings originating in Italy threaten another attack on campus.
Virginia is set to execute a man who killed a teen girl then bragged about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.
