A retired police officer, appearing at the sentencing hearing of his son, who has been convicted of capitol murder, pleaded for his son to be “forgiven” and sentenced to life in prison rather than his being put to death.
Read moreThe federal judge who presided over former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s fraud trial in Virginia wants to know when – or if – the special counsel’s team will pursue a series of counts the jury deadlocked on last summer.
Read moreLast month a jury in Prince William County, Virginia convicted Ronald Hamilton of capital murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and a rookie police officer on her first shift.
Read moreRichmond’s John Marshall Courts Building closed its doors early Wednesday after a man took his own life on the courthouse steps.
Read moreFour members of a white supremacist group were arrested Tuesday and federally charged with conspiracy and rioting during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
Read moreVirginia’s Republican candidate for Senate blamed the lack of civility in modern politics on the removal of Christian values from public schools at a candidate forum Sunday.
Read moreVirginia’s highest court on Wednesday rejected a congressional candidate’s bid to get back on the November ballot, holding that she was attempting to appeal a temporary action by a lower court and not its final decision in her case.
Read moreAn Independent congressional candidate who last week was struck from the November ballot due to extensive problems with her petition signatures is appealing her case to the Virginia Supreme Court.
Read moreA state court judge on Wednesday ordered that the name of an Independent candidate for Congress be struck from this year’s ballot after he concluded the effort to get her on it was fraught with “fraud, forgery and perjury.”
Read moreA non-partisan group is pushing for an amendment to Virginia’s constitution in the hopes of addressing the state’s ongoing legal fight with unconstitutional gerrymandering.
Read moreA Democratic congressional candidate in Virginia is threatening legal action against a conservative PAC that shared an unredacted copy of her federal security clearance application with the press.
Read moreWith all 11 House seats, plus that of Democratic Senator Tim Kaine up for grabs, Virginia is high on the midterm elections watch list. The battles are dotted with allegations of racism, anti-Semitism and even Bigfoot erotica, as pollsters are predicting upsets in in rural and military-heavy parts of the state.
Read moreSpurred to investigate reports that juvenile immigrants face systemic abuses at a jail in southwestern Virginia, state officials largely cleared the federally run detention center of wrongdoing.
Read moreA federal judge rejected former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s motion for acquittal of bank and tax fraud charges moments before his defense team rested without calling any witnesses, setting the stage for closing arguments Tuesday afternoon.
Read moreThe Democratic Party of Virginia sued state Board of Elections on Monday, asking a judge to strike the name of a third-party congressional candidate from the ballot ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Read moreA Chicago bank approved former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort for a loan just one day after the bank’s chief told Manafort he was interested in serving for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, a bank executive testified Friday after the trial was put on hold for several hours.
Read moreIn a bid to unravel hours of elaborate testimony about Paul Manafort’s financial records Wednesday afternoon, defense attorneys zeroed in on one detail they painted as particularly curious – the former Trump campaign chair’s signature on various tax and loan forms.
Read moreRecalling his chat with Paul Manafort after they both were called in by the FBI, Rick Gates testified Wednesday that the former Trump campaign chair claimed to have told the investigator the truth.
Read moreThe trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort opened Tuesday with prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller accusing the one-time, high-flying political consultant with putting “himself and his money above the law” while flouting tax and banking regulations.
Read moreConstruction of a natural gas pipeline through federally-protected lands has reportedly stopped after a Fourth Circuit panel found two federal agencies acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” during the permitting process.
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