Updated: 8:15 AM Texas Gov. Rick Perry has filed an emergency order asking that his name be included on the ballot for the Republican presidential primary.

Updated: 3:54 PM The chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia says he followed the law when it comes to certifying presidential candidates.

Updated: 1:28 PM A drawing by the state Board of Elections puts Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul first on the ballot for Virginia's March 6 primary.

Updated: 7:58 AM The winner of the Beverley Manor School Board seat has been revealed. Lee Godfrey won the seat by 1 vote.

Updated: 6:30 AM Republican frontrunner George Allen has agreed to participate in all three debates the Republican Party of Virginia is holding next year for its candidates in the 2012 U.S. Senate race.

Updated: 8:38 AM Gov. Bob McDonnell intends to endorse fellow Republican George Allen's 2012 U.S. Senate bid on Friday.

Posted: 5:09 PM Seven-term Democratic state Sen. Edd Houck has conceded defeat to Republican Bryce Reeves, guaranteeing the Republicans control of not only the Senate but state government.

Posted: 3:50 PM Even though the total number of write-ins for Broadway Town Council received the second most votes, the three registered candidates will take the town council seats.

Updated: 10:23 AM The first independent expenditure attack ad of the 2012 Senate race in Virginia is about to hit TV screens. It attacks Democrat Tim Kaine's 2012 Senate bid.

Updated: 7:27 AM If the republicans claim the advantage in the Senate, conservative legislation has a better chance of passing than it has in recent years.

Updated: 3:51 PM Election Day may be over, but one local race is still undecided.

Posted: 3:58 PM Senior Virginia Republicans have made it clear they will not share power in the new Virginia Senate.

Posted: 11:24 AM Republicans appeared on the cusp of taking control of the Virginia Senate Tuesday with at least one veteran Democrat losing to a freshman Republican senator and a seven-term Democrat trailing a Republican challenger.

Posted: 11:14 AM Republicans have expanded their majority in Virginia's House of Delegates, laying claim to a record 66 seats. That eclipses the previous high of 64 seats Republicans held after the 2001 elections.

Updated: 7:28 AM Voters in Rockingham County have selected a new Sheriff.

Updated: 7:34 AM Only about one third of eligible voters in the Valley showed up at the polls on Tuesday.

Updated: 6:44 AM Larry Wills is another new face on the board, but he has served on the Board of Supervisors before.

Updated: 6:34 AM The governing body of Augusta County has a lot of new faces tonight. Five of the seven seats on the Board of Supervisors were won by newcomers.

Updated: 1:00 PM Three contested races in Page County brought out scores of people to the VFW in Luray.

Updated: 7:50 AM In Waynesboro turnout was up compared to similar elections in the past.

Updated: 7:56 AM The newly re-districted area posed quite the challenge for delegate Dickie Bell and his challenger Laura Kleiner adding thousands of new voters to the 20th district.

Posted: 10:06 PM House Democratic Minority Leader Ward Armstrong has lost the seat he's held for nearly 20 years.

Updated: 2:18 PM The Rockingham County Registrar reports that as of 1 p.m. Tuesday, 20 percent of the county's registered voters have voted.

Posted: 10:40 AM Virginia voters are deciding Tuesday whether to continue with a partisan divide in the state legislature or give the Republicans absolute power with a new Senate majority.

Updated: 8:15 AM Some voters in Rockingham County have the incorrect polling place printed on their voter card.