Posted: 10:17 AM The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.

Posted: 7:37 AM IRS official Lois Lerner says she will invoke her right to not answer questions when she is scheduled to appear Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Posted: 7:32 AM The immigration bill adds new worker programs and enforcement, and contains a path to citizenship for 11 million people here illegally.

Posted: 7:26 AM Monday's tornado killed at least 24 people, countless homes and reduced one elementary school almost entirely to rubble.

Updated: 7:01 AM For the first time in Virginia, people in a low income housing apartment building will be using solar energy for their utilities.

Updated: 7:01 AM For the first time, the Harrisonburg Police Foundation honored four police officers with awards.

Updated: 7:06 AM A food bank in our area received fewer donations at its largest food drive on May 11.

Updated: 7:04 AM A couple in the valley started an effort to collect items to help tornado victims in Oklahoma.

Updated: 7:05 AM Valley Group Helping Oklahoma Relief Efforts

Posted: 8:09 PM The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved far-reaching immigration legislation that gives a chance at citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.

Posted: 7:22 PM There's a new exhibit opening this Thursday at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton. It's of Wilson's Pierce-Arrow limousine.

Updated: 6:49 PM Quail populations in Virginia are declining, but local landowners are doing something to help bring the birds back.

Updated: 6:48 PM A Valley hospital was recognized for being in the top 2 percent of hospitals in the country.

Posted: 6:00 PM A Richmond-area high school student is accused of abducting another teen at gunpoint from the school's parking lot.

Updated: 6:47 PM Tornadoes have happened in the Valley before. A WHSV reporter checked in with schools in the area to see what the procedure is for if a tornado hits.

Updated: 6:47 PM While the entire nation is focused on the wreckage left by the tornado in Oklahoma, Valley neighbors are reflecting on the tornadoes that passed through two years ago.

Posted: 5:02 PM The Red Cross in the Valley is helping citizens in Oklahoma impacted by the two-mile wide tornado that hit Oklahoma City.

Posted: 3:44 PM The fire chief in the Oklahoma City suburb raked by a massive tornado says the search for survivors and the dead is almost complete.

Updated: 4:44 PM Police say a 10-year-old girl has been shot and killed by a juvenile male in Crozet.

Updated: 2:15 PM Authorities say the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town's parade won't likely face charges.

Updated: 12:41 PM Emergency crews, along with agencies from the city and Rockingham County, practiced handling a disaster on Tuesday morning.

Posted: 11:23 AM Opponents of uranium mining in Virginia met with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on the issue and they said he's solidly in their corner.

Posted: 12:12 PM The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children.

Updated: 5:06 PM The Harrisonburg Community Health Center will receive federal money to help people sign up for health care reform insurance.

Updated: 6:11 AM Governor Bob Mcdonnell has just launched an initiative hoping to get 1,000 kids adopted. People Places is a local foster care agency that works with the Department of Social Services.