A woman has given up 94 malnourished horses and other animals that authorities seized from her farm in Dinwiddie County.

A coal miner who says he was fired for enforcing safety standards that slowed production and the sealing of the Upper Big Branch mine is suing Alpha Natural Resources.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has joined officials in several states in asking the federal government to fight a judge's decision that blocked the importation of a drug used in executions.

The Caroline County farm that's been the site of the State Fair of Virginia is up for auction.

Four people face charges of tying a 15-year-old girl to a tree and assaulting her with eggs and beer in Isle of Wight County.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to visit Virginia to highlight efforts to expand lending to help certain farmers and ranchers during their start-up years.

Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart, who was hailed as Rich Rodriguez's successor but wound up leaving the school in a messy split, died Monday of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. He was 59.

Dominion Virginia Power is urging customers to focus on electrical safety heading into the warmer months.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is developing its first major exhibit on the human genome with a $3 million pledge from the philanthropic foundation of Life Technologies Corp.

New road signs in Virginia will help drivers choose the quickest route to the Virginia Beach oceanfront and North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Television journalist Katie Couric has urged University of Virginia graduates to take risks and persevere.

The federal government is asking an appeals panel in Richmond to reverse a ruling that shields a reporter from testifying in the case of an ex-CIA officer charged with leaking classified information about a botched covert operation in Iran.

Thirteen men and women have been convicted of smuggling millions of dollars' worth of the illegal African drug khat.

While Mitt Romney faults President Barack Obama for a weak American economy, Republican governors across the country are trumpeting business growth and falling unemployment.

Virginia State Police and the families of fallen troopers will gather in suburban Richmond to remember those who died in the line of duty.

Dominion Virginia Power is proposing an incentive to encourage customers to install solar panels and sell the electricity to company.

Virginia Beach is prohibiting swimming in part of the Chesapeake Bay.

Police say five people are in custody after pointing a gun at two Culpeper County schools.

A Waynesboro man will spend two years on probation for participating in a scheme to steal tactical flashlights from the Virginia Army National Guard.

Virginia will conduct its annual pesticide disposal program in September.

Attorneys for a North Carolina man convicted of supporting a terrorist organization have told an appeals court that he should get a new sentencing hearing.

Three Virginia men and a New York man have been sentenced in a cigarette smuggling case.

Attorneys for the state are fighting to keep a man on Virginia's death row after a federal court said his claims of mental deficiency were enough to warrant an appeal.

Virginia Beach police are asking residents to call 911 if they see a bear.

The House of Delegates, voting in Tuesday's early morning hours, blocked an openly gay Richmond prosecutor from appointment to a General District Court judgeship in the city.