Updated: 1:32 PM RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A Senate committee has postponed until Monday debate on bills to crack down on texting while driving.

Posted: 10:45 PM Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation funding package is headed to the Senate floor.

Posted: 9:11 PM The sponsor of legislation that would have allowed uranium mining in Virginia has withdrawn his bill amid almost certain defeat in a Senate committee.

Posted: 9:06 PM The Virginia Senate has passed legislation making it illegal for adults to smoke with kids in the car.

Posted: 4:08 PM An Albemarle County supervisor will spend 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to sexual battery.

Posted: 2:14 PM Police say they won't file any charges against the son of Democratic Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia, who was captured in an undercover video discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots.

Posted: 11:21 AM A Virginia pastor who interfered with a custody dispute involving a lesbian couple in Vermont will remain jailed for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury.

Updated: 10:24 AM RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia Senate committee is taking another look at legislation that would allow home-schooled students to play public school sports.

Posted: 1:05 PM (AP) Virginia bill would allow students to object to secular teachings that clash with beliefs.

Updated: 12:16 PM Opponents of uranium mining in Virginia say they have the votes in a Senate committee to block legislation that would effectively end a decades-old state moratorium on mining the radioactive ore.

Updated: 3:39 PM The University of Virginia rector who led the failed attempt to oust the school's president has won a second four-year term.

Updated: 12:19 PM A Virginia artist has admitted to copying and selling works by other artists.

Updated: 11:53 AM Legislation to require Virginia voters to provide photo identification at polling places is dead for the year.

Updated: 5:26 AM A proposed constitutional amendment that would allow for the civil rights of nonviolent felons to be restored by law rather than solely by gubernatorial fiat has won Senate passage.

Updated: 5:27 AM A proposed amendment that would end Virginia's unique constitutional prohibition on allowing governors to seek re-election to a second term has passed the state Senate.

Updated: 5:29 AM A Republican-run Senate committee killed legislation that would have made pre-abortion ultrasound exams optional, not mandatory, after the committee chairman blocked discussion of the bill.

Posted: 3:33 PM The Virginia Senate has approved a bill that would cut in half the number of signatures presidential candidates in Virginia would have to submit to qualify for the state's primary ballot.

Updated: 11:38 AM Charlottesville police say a man who brought a loaded semi-automatic rifle into a Kroger store won't be charged.

Posted: 9:02 PM Lawmakers are aiming to impose harsher penalties on cigarette traffickers in Virginia, where officials say low excise taxes have made it an attractive base for smugglers.

Posted: 2:15 PM The Senate has passed a measure to prohibit state government from discriminating against employees because of their sexual orientation.

Posted: 11:37 AM The Wildlife Center of Virginia has euthanized a peregrine falcon that had been part of an education program.

Posted: 7:36 PM United Airlines says two airplanes clipped wings at a gate at Dulles International Airport.

Posted: 4:01 PM A major component of Gov. Bob McDonnell's education reform package has easily cleared two legislative hurdles.

Updated: 12:50 PM A closed federal court hearing is being held in the case of a pastor convicted of helping a woman her daughter flee the country rather than share custody of the girl with her former lesbian partner in Vermont.

Posted: 10:23 AM Sally Green is stepping down as first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.