Updated: 11:44 AM The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to a Virginia organization to help pay for a Parkinson's disease study.

Posted: 10:31 AM The State Board of Social Services is coming to Virginia Beach this week to discuss ways to prevent child deaths.

Posted: 9:09 AM Authorities have identified a woman who was hit and killed by a train on a trestle in Augusta County.

Posted: 11:40 AM The Richmond area will come together at a park where a 4-year-old was killed by a tree during this week's storm to remember the boy.

Posted: 12:26 PM Virginia general revenue increased last month by 20.5 percent over May 2012 in one of the year's most significant tax collection months.

Posted: 11:33 AM A Virginia state senator says her email account has been hacked by someone who says she's stranded in France and needs money to get home.

Updated: 7:39 PM Transprint USA here in Harrisonburg, is the only place to do air dying which allows them to dye without water.

Posted: 5:41 PM George Orwell's book 1984 is flying off the shelves.

Updated: 5:35 PM The Better Business Bureau says this is the time when folks need to be careful when it comes to hiring companies to remove trees from their property.

Posted: 2:32 PM Prosecutors say there'll be no charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a 10-year-ld Crozet girl.

Posted: 2:21 PM The first lawsuit challenging Virginia's new abortion clinic regulations has been filed.

Updated: 12:01 PM The driver involved in a deadly crash near Roanoke is now facing charges. Virginia State police say the driver was driving under the influence yesterday afternoon..

Updated: 11:42 AM The Southern Baptist Convention tackled topics at its annual meeting this week that seemed to show a concern for a broadening array of social issues. Those included human trafficking and the country's high rate of incarceration.

Posted: 10:39 AM A Powhatan County grand jury has indicted a man on charges stemming from a wreck that killed his three older sisters.

Updated: 5:21 PM Chief Larry Shifflett said the department got a call about a fire on Smithland road at about 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

Posted: 4:02 PM The body of a Spotsylvania County man has been recovered from a Caroline County lake.

Posted: 3:22 PM A federal drug plea has been postponed for a Philadelphia abortion provider already serving life in the deaths of three babies.

Posted: 12:12 PM Portsmouth residents can now legally keep chickens at their residences. But they can't sell eggs.

Posted: 10:40 AM The U.S. Department of Justice plans to visit polling places in Augusta County in July.

Posted: 12:54 PM A three-judge panel is weighing a bid to broaden the appeal of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend.

Posted: 12:34 PM Union First Market Bankshares Corp. plans to acquire StellarOne Corp. in a stock transaction valued at $445 million.

Updated: 11:03 AM The No. 2 Republican in the House says Congress is "perplexed" about government eavesdropping and wants more answers from the Obama administration.

Updated: 11:04 AM A sentencing hearing is set for a Gloucester County couple convicted of keeping their daughter in a makeshift cage.

Updated: 11:05 AM Virgina State Police is joining five other state police agencies this weekend in an effort to keep motorists safe along U.S. 15.

Posted: 2:52 PM Two Atlanta men who ran a prostitution ring that employed underage girls and stretched from Maryland to Florida have been sentenced to 25 and 20 years in prison.