Calling a Confederate general who led an uprising against the United States of America an “American war veteran,” a state judge blocked the removal of any war monuments in the state capital Thursday afternoon.
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The Virginia Board of Elections voted to extend campaign filing deadlines for several congressional candidates Tuesday afternoon, citing confusion caused by postponed conventions and primaries.
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Environmentalists on Monday celebrated two energy giants’ weekend cancellation of the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, saying it would have threatened Appalachian waterways and communities for hundreds of miles.
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Despite city council members not yet authorizing the move, statues of Confederate leaders are being torn down Wednesday afternoon in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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A judge in Virginia’s capital denied a request for an injunction blocking the use of tear gas and enforcement of a controversial riot law against protesters in a case brought by ACLU.
Read more“Who brings flash bombs to a fucking sleepover?” shouted protesters, according to local student journalists, as Richmond police hurled crowd dispersal tools, including tear gas into the Virginia Student Power Network’s late night teach-in in the street in front of Richmond’s city hall.
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Once an informal adviser to President Donald Trump and later a witness for the Mueller probe, George Nader was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for possession of child pornography and transporting a minor into the United States for sex.
Read moreFinding a new Virginia law limiting the purchase of handguns to one a month does not violate the Constitution, a rural judge on Thursday denied an injunction that would block it from taking effect.
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After announcing a 130-year-old monument to a Confederate general in Richmond “belongs to everyone,” a Virginia judge extended an injunction indefinitely blocking the governor’s effort to remove it.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday that he’s making Juneteenth — a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States — an official holiday in a state that was home to the capital of the Confederacy.
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Richmond Chief of Police William Smith is out after 18 days of protests against police brutality in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue on Wednesday night.
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As a salvage crew prepares to retrieve the Titanic’s wireless telegraph machine, the U.S. government formally objected in court, saying the private expedition could violate an international agreement not to disturb the site of the iconic shipwreck.
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A circuit court judge in Richmond, Virginia, Monday night issued a temporary injunction blocking the removal of a Civil War monument just as George Floyd protests began to wind down in the former capital of the Confederacy.
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After nearly a week of protests over the death of George Floyd, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced a plan Thursday morning to remove a massive statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue.
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Citing an inconsistent advertising policy, a federal judge in Virginia is forcing Richmond’s public bus system to carry a taxpayer-watchdog group’s advertisement with a message opposing federally funded animal testing.
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The long-running fight over a rural Virginia school’s transgender student bathroom policy returned Tuesday to the Fourth Circuit, where one judge wondered whether the creation of a nongendered bathroom amounted to separate-but-equal discrimination.
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Testing in Virginia has long been the Achilles heel for the state. While the total number of deaths and infections is nowhere near as high as some others, outbreaks, especially in assisted living and low income communities, have become a staple.
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The president’s attacks on mail-in voting are at odds with how states – even red ones – have been operating for years.
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