Updated: 10:52 PM The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says 51 people have been killed by a tornado that hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. Children are among the dead.
Updated: 6:03 PM A woman was brought up on animal cruelty charges after calling the police. Authorities showed up because she reported an intruder, just to find out there were other issues.
Updated: 6:02 PM A Democrat in the Valley said members of her party think that the candidates on the Virginia Republican ticket are too extreme and some of the most extreme the party has put forward.
Posted: 4:27 PM The Virginia medical examiner's office says it will likely be weeks before the cause of death is determined for two FBI agents who died during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach.
Posted: 2:06 PM West Virginia landowners who want to apply for grants to improve wildlife habitat have until June 14 to contact the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Posted: 1:00 PM The Republican candidates for state office stopped at Shenandoah Valley Regional airport on Monday morning. It was their first visit to the Valley since being nominated at the convention in Richmond.
Posted: 12:43 PM Virginia Democrats are framing the new statewide ticket the Republican Right nominated Saturday as a referendum on the GOP's surprise lieutenant governor nominee, firebrand Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson, and his statements demeaning gays and equating Planned Parenthood with the Ku Klux Klan.
Posted: 10:22 AM The Civil War Trust has launched a $3.6 million national fundraising campaign to preserve 56 battlefield acres at Brandy Station in Culpeper County.
Updated: 6:36 AM One in five kids has a mental disorder, and those estimates are increasing. Now, the CDC has released its first ever report to describe federal efforts meant to monitor mental disorders.
Updated: 6:24 AM More than two hundred people walked around Court Square on Sunday.
It was symbolic of the walk they're willing to take to achieve immigration reform in the city of Harrisonburg.
Updated: 6:45 AM TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.
Updated: 6:40 AM STAUNTON -- Despite the gloomy clouds that loomed over the ceremony, Mary Baldwin College held its 171st graduation outside on Sunday.
Posted: 4:49 PM ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) -- Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a winning Powerball ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million.
