A federal judge ruled Friday that the Republican Party of Virginia has a right to bar individuals from voting at its meetings or conventions who have supported nonparty candidates.
Read moreFormer Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Tuesday, made another attempt have criminal charges brought against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller thrown out by a federal court — but this time the request was filed in Virginia, where he is scheduled to stand trial in July.
Read moreIn a seven-page motion filed Monday in the federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, Andrew Weissmann, senior assistant to special counsel Mueller, asked U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III to a approve a proposed protective order intended to “ensure the confidentiality of personal identification information and discovery.”
Read moreThe family of a Virginia woman who was shot and killed by police in 2016 while brandishing a toy gun sued the city and the officers for $16 million claiming more should have been done to resolve the confrontation peacefully.
Read moreActivists and citizens gathered in the state capitol Monday to support and comment on a proposal to make Virginia the first state in the South to limit carbon emissions and enter a multi-state carbon trading market.
Read moreA new statewide poll shows President Donald Trump and his policies are deeply unpopular in Virginia, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans from entering the state’s 2018 Senate primary contest in hopes of taking on the popular Democratic incumbent, Tim Kaine.
Read moreThe Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a Rocky Mount man who hung a black mannequin by the neck in his front yard to intimidate his black neighbors.
Read moreLawyers for the Commonwealth of Virginia appeared before the state Supreme Court Thursday arguing that legislators are legally allowed to create electoral district maps — even if the districts are not as compact as critics would hope.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit Tuesday said it’s up to a lower court to reset a $1.35 million attorney’s fee award in a long-running Virginia gerrymander case after concluding it’s not up to the Commonwealth to foot the bill for the members of Congress who intervened in the case.
Read moreA nanny hired by members of Saudi Arabian royalty living in the U.S., claims in court she was forced into slavery, subjected to psychological abuse and isolated from the outside world after her employers snatched her passport and refused to return it to her for nearly a year.
Read moreThe Virginia General Assembly Wednesday advanced legislation to expand public access court records with bipartisan support after a local paper lost a lawsuit seeking information on sentencing disparities across the Commonwealth.
Read moreMore than a dozen new democratic legislators entered the Virginia General Assembly this year, and while many of the issues they ran on have failed to gain traction in a body the GOP has dominated for decades, their presence in the assembly chamber is already having an impact.
Read moreIn Virginia, families who have lived in the mountains around Roanoke for decades are fighting the development of a new pipeline in the area, not on strictly environmental grounds, but to ensure they are treated fairly during the eminent domain process.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a call for a new election in a contentious Virginia House race by voters were given the wrong ballot when they showed up to vote in November.
Read moreVoters in Virginia are appealing a federal judge’s decision against a new election for a race that might have forced a 50-50 split in Virginia’s House of Delegates.
Read moreVoters who believe they were disenfranchised by election officials during Virginia’s 2017 general election appeared in federal court Friday afternoon in the hopes of getting a special election called for a still-contested state house race.
Read moreGary Thaxton has owned an independent auto repair shop in downtown Richmond, Virginia, since 1975. He’s seen thousands of cars come in and out of his garage, but newer models, with complex computer systems that he lacks the software and hardware to fix, pose a problem for the businessman.
Read moreDavid Yancey, the incumbent Republican, has won the random drawing for a tied House of Delegates race in Virginia, meaning the GOP will retain control of the chamber.
Read moreVirginia elections officials have set next Thursday as the day they will pick the winner in a bitterly contested race that could decide the balance of power in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Read moreVirginia Republican leaders say Democrats are trying to “litigate their way to victory” in a tied House race that could decide the balance of power in the House of Delegates.
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