By ERIK VERDUZCO and ALLEN G. BREED A bus crashed into vehicles slowing for a work zone on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday, killing five people and injuring dozens, including the driver, authorities said. The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on…
By GARY D. ROBERTSON and DAVID A. LIEB RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Supreme Court justices on Monday questioned whether the state’s Democratic-led legislature complied with constitutional requirements when it sent a congressional redistricting plan to voters, in a case that carries high…
By DAVID A. LIEB Virginia voters approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that could boost Democrats’ chances of winning four additional U.S. House seats in November’s midterm elections that will decide control of the closely divided Congress. The constitutional amendment narrowly backed by…
By MICHAEL BIESECKER FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a rising star in the Democratic party several years ago before his career was derailed by sexual assault allegations, killed his wife before killing himself, police said…
U.S. Marshals and the Pearl River County Sheriff's Office arrested a wanted felon at a home on Laser Lane in Carriere on Tuesday morning. 30-year-old James Bearrie Hylton was wanted on a federal probation violation out of North Carolina…
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hundreds of motorists waited desperately for help Tuesday after a winter storm snarled traffic in Virginia and left some drivers stranded for nearly 24 hours in freezing temperatures along an impassable stretch of interstate south of…
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A 65-pound alligator snapping turtle with a face only its mother could love has found a new home at a Virginia zoo after freaking out residents in a northern Virginia suburb. The turtle, dubbed Lord Fairfax,…
There is a special tribute to Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks in Richmond, Virginia. The Greater Richmond Transit Center has reserved the first passenger seat on every bus in honor of Parks. In 1955, Parks refused to give up her…