Virginia

Youngkin announced Wednesday that in response to a request from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott he had signed an executive order directing the deployment of 100 Virginia National Guard soldiers and 21 support personnel.

Nationally, reform prosecutors have had mixed political success after their initial elections. The Virginia races, meanwhile, may provide more insight into the views of suburban voters.

In a sign of the intensity of Virginia’s political debates over K-12 public schools — some in the Williamsburg-James City County system saw an ulterior motive hidden beneath the glaze and sprinkles.

A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans.

A memorandum of understanding between state police and the Office of the State Inspector General, the watchdog agency tasked with investigating waste and rooting out inefficiencies in state government, says that in nearly all cases, VSP retains responsibility for “the oversight and conduct of internal investigations of its personnel.”

A police officer has been arrested on charges that he lied about leaking confidential information to a leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group and obstructed an investigation after group members destroyed a Black Lives Matter banner in the nation's capital.

Austin Lee Edwards, a former Virginia state trooper then employed by the Washington County, Va., sheriff’s office, drove into the Mojave Desert, where he died in a confrontation with authorities.

U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia says a man with a baseball bat walked into his Fairfax office, asked for him, and assaulted two of his workers. Fairfax City Police in northern Virginia said in a tweet that a suspect is in custody and that the victims are being treated for non life-threatening injuries.

Police say an altercation between two co-workers at a Virginia hospital led to a fatal shooting.

A former Massachusetts police officer who reportedly participated in the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been decertified by the state’s police standards board, meaning he can no longer work in law enforcement, according to state records.

A current and a former sheriff’s deputy in Virginia have been indicted on assault charges following the death of a 77-year-old man with dementia who was injured during his arrest after a traffic stop.

“Many of these champion trees, they’re not out in the wilderness,” Wiseman said. “They’re in places that are right around the corner, and oftentimes these trees are located at places that have either cultural or historical significance.”

A man who escaped from a Virginia jail this week after being charged in the 2022 killing of a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy was captured in Mexico Thursday, authorities said.

Ballots boxes will begin filling up again Friday as early voting for the June primary elections opens. So we put together a handy guide on how to cast your vote ahead of time.

Authorities have arrested the sister of Alder Marin-Sotelo, the man accused of fatally shooting a North Carolina deputy in August who escaped from a Virginia prison Sunday.

Patches, a 40-pound cat, was adopted from Richmond Animal Care and Control.

Seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital workers should be put on trial together in the case of Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old man who died after he was pinned to the floor as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital, a prosecutor argued Wednesday.

The new Virginia licenses feature an inside look of the state Capitol, specifically of the building’s rotunda.

Glenn Youngkin recently appointed Bert Ellis to the university’s board of trustees.

Terlene Terry-Todd is a master teaching artist from the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. The woman better known as Ms. T took up residence at Virginia Avenue Charlotte DeHart Elementary School and had the children transform into exotic animals to engage their imaginations while cleverly teaching them about reading, counting and the environment.

The family of a northern Virginia man fatally shot by U.S. Park Police officers has reached a $5 million settlement in its civil lawsuit against the government.

Amazon is asking Virginia for nearly $153 million in state incentive payments, which would be the first tranche of funds to be paid out since the tech giant agreed in 2018 to build a headquarters complex in the state.

The Virginia Department of Elections disclosed Friday afternoon that over a month ago it “inadvertently” shared the state’s registered voter list, which contains personal identifying information, with an unnamed individual.