A Defense Intelligence Agency analyst was charged Wednesday with providing journalists top secret and classified national defense information, including secrets related to an unnamed foreign country’s weapons systems.
Read moreA University of Virginia student has pledged to appeal the dismissal of his challenge to a federal law that bars people under 21 from buying handguns.
Read moreA government watchdog group blasted a ruling that will keep a defamation lawsuit filed by California Congressman Devin Nunes against Twitter and several users in Virginia state court, warning it could chill free speech.
Read moreOn a balmy summer afternoon at Harry G. Daniel Park a few miles south of Richmond, Virginia’s Republican House Speaker Kirk Cox handed out hot dogs to his new constituents.
Read moreAfter a federal judge upheld several controversial Virginia abortion laws including a 24-waiting period, pro-abortion rights advocates say there is still much work to be done in eliminating obstacles for access to the procedure.
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By the time drug enforcement agents swooped into his small medical office in Martinsville, Virginia, in 2017, Dr. Joel Smithers had prescribed about half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years.
Read moreA Virginia newspaper and a handful of national and international outlets filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system demanding public access to the full execution process, claiming current policy allows much of the proceedings to be blocked by a curtain.
Read moreIn a $400 million defamation lawsuit filed Thursday, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax claims news giant CBS defamed him when it aired a segment featuring what he says are unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault from two women he encountered over 15 years ago.
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As Hurricane Dorian moves away from the flooded remains of the Bahamas, governors across the American South are ordering evacuations, declaring states of emergency and asking for federal support ahead of the storm’s expected U.S. landfall.
Read moreCongressman Devin Nunes resisted an attempt to throw out his defamation case against Twitter, arguing through his lawyer Friday that pervasive parody accounts about Nunes are like a fire next door that is seeping smoke into your house and choking a newborn baby.
Read moreThe coastal city of Norfolk filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the state of Virginia in hopes of removing a Confederate statue and rolling back a state law banning the removal of war monuments.
Read moreA Virginia chapter of the NAACP filed a federal lawsuit Friday against a Richmond-area school district for using the names of Confederate leaders on two school buildings, claiming it forces black students to support a legacy of oppression.
Read moreThe families of two Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash during a 2017 white nationalist rally sued the state, claiming it did not properly maintain the chopper that abruptly slammed into the ground and burst into flames.
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A federal judge in Virginia ruled Friday that a school board’s transgender bathroom ban discriminated against a former student, Gavin Grimm.
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A Fourth Circuit ruling that backs the search of a man for child porn based solely on evidence that he clicked a single link in the dark reaches of the web is stirring outrage.
Read moreAs the Catholic Church digs itself out of a global sex abuse scandal, some priests are heading to court to contend they were wrongfully accused of misconduct and defamed when the church published their names on lists of “credibly accused” clergy members.
Read moreTuesday marks the 400th anniversary of the first representative assembly in Jamestown, Virginia, but an event meant to honor the day was split in two shortly after the announcement that President Donald Trump would be involved.
Read moreA former Virginia Beach magistrate brought a federal complaint this weekend detailing what she describes as rampant substance abuse and sexual misconduct among court staff.
Read moreJohnny Depp’s defamation suit against ex-wife and fellow actor Amber Heard will remain in Virginia, a judge ruled Thursday, refusing to let Heard take the case west.
Read moreA witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference of the 2016 election, already accused of possessing child pornography, was indicted Friday on charges of transporting a 14-year-old boy from Europe to Washington, D.C. for sex.
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