Posted: 12:38 PM A subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. is expanding in Fairfax County and expects to provide 500 new jobs.

Posted: 10:59 AM Fewer Virginians are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home during the Memorial Day weekend.

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: 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.

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: 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: 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.

Posted: 5:51 PM Two FBI agents have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.

Posted: 3:30 PM Virginia's Republican Party, now under tea party control, will gavel its convention to order Friday and is preparing to formalize Ken Cuccinelli's gubernatorial nomination and decide its two other statewide candidates.

Posted: 1:00 PM The Virginia Employment Commission says the state's jobless rate fell in April for the second consecutive month.

Posted: 11:05 AM Gov. Bob McDonnell is launching an ambitious campaign to match more than 1,000 children in foster care with 1,000 adoptive parents.

Posted: 10:21 AM Rates at Virginia's community colleges are going up.

Posted: 4:23 PM Virginia transportation officials worked for hours to remove a huge makeshift shelter a homeless man built and lived in for 9 years.

Posted: 10:51 AM The Virginia Lottery says someone bought a $1 million Powerball ticket in Christiansburg.

Posted: 10:26 AM The owner of a hotel in Norfolk will pay nearly $11 million to settle a lawsuit over a toddler's fall from a walkway.

Posted: 3:30 PM A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Gov. Bob McDonnell's job approval dipping to its lowest point in two years.

Updated: 1:58 PM Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has recused his office from representing Gov. Bob McDonnell in matters related to theft charges against the Executive Mansion's former chef and hired a team of five private lawyers.

Posted: 11:22 AM Two Southside Virginia voices against uranium mining are joining forces.

Posted: 11:09 AM Officials at Shenandoah National Park are working on a plan to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease.

Posted: 10:22 AM Virginia farmers produce enough eggs to make more than 1 billion deviled eggs annually.

Updated: 2:36 PM Virginia general revenue increased last month by 2.2 percent over April 2012 in one of the year's most significant tax collection months, putting Virginia slightly ahead of its budgeted forecast 10 months through its fiscal year.

Posted: 10:46 AM The politically charged embezzlement case against a former Virginia Executive Mansion chef is back before a Richmond judge.

Updated: 10:33 AM Virginia Tech University President Charles Steger is stepping down.

Posted: 10:23 AM A Virginia couple has been arrested on a South Carolina beach after police say the couple was found nude.