The $2 million lawsuit alleges that 52-year-old Sandra Kenley died from cardiovascular disease because of inadequate health care

In 2002, 13-year-old Alicia Kozakiewicz left her Pittsburgh-area home to meet Scott Tyree, a 38-year-old she had met online. Tyree drove her to his Herndon home, where he chained her to the floor in his basement for four days while he beat and raped her.

State Senator Deeds tried to save the bill, by proposing an amendment that would change three key items in the proposed bill

The old saying that it takes two to tango doesn’t apply to the General Assembly. In that venue, it takes three: the Senate, the House and the governor.

Attorney General Bob McDonnell said Tuesday he would focus on mental health reform in response to the Virginia Tech shootings and illegal immigration in the 2008 General Assembly, which convenes Wednesday.

For hundreds of advocacy groups for businesses, professions and ideologies, doing favors for friendly candidates - usually incumbents - was business as usual.

The General Assembly’s most outspoken and persistent abortion foe on Monday announced his bid this year for a U.S. Senate seat.

Virginia Commonwealth University has added a master’s program in nuclear engineering.

Grant Woolard, the Cavalier Daily cartoonist whose comic strip titled “Ethiopian Food Fight” created a wave of controversy last week, has been forced to resign

That accident now part of a growing trend in the Commonwealth where drunken driving fatalities are up 7.5%. And the numbers in Roanoke City are even more startling. Here drunken driving crashes are up 9.5%, deaths are up 33%, and injuries are up 21%.

Almost two years after the start of Virginia’s groundbreaking, $1.4 million effort to search for people wrongfully convicted of crimes, no new exonerations have been announced.

It’s a challenge to lawyers to raise as much food as they can for their local food bank.

Good evening.

I’m Senator Jim Webb, from Virginia, where this year we will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown - an event that marked the first step in the long journey that has made us the greatest and most prosperous nation on earth.

Rising flood waters bring out the scammers at a time you are particularly vulnerable. So be careful, so you don’t waste your money.

Turn on the radio, sign onto the Internet or get out an iPod, the state attorney general has something to say.

In his first months in office, Attorney General Bob McDonnell has turned to new and established media to connect with constituents across Virginia.