Posted: 3:25 AM Abortion-rights supporters in Virginia say they have more than 3,000 public comments opposing state abortion clinic regulations up for a final vote in April.

Updated: 12:45 PM Two civil rights groups are urging Gov. Bob McDonnell to issue an executive order restoring the voting rights of about 350,000 felons who have completed their sentences.

Posted: 12:01 PM An Albemarle County resident has submitted a petition to circuit court seeking the removal of a county supervisor who pleaded guilty to sexual battery.

Posted: 10:22 AM The Waynesboro Historical Commission hopes to find a way to save a historic city-owned building that's fallen into disrepair.

Posted: 4:35 PM The parents of a Virginia Tech student who was killed after attending a Metallica concert in 2009 in Charlottesville are making new claims against a security company.

Posted: 12:59 PM The Virginia Court of Appeals has reversed the felony murder conviction of a Danville man who sold the drug that led to a fatal overdose.

Updated: 12:01 PM Gov. Bob McDonnell wants to prohibit abortion coverage through insurance plans purchased through the federally run health care exchange that will serve Virginia.

Posted: 10:26 AM Many applicants seeking jobs with the city of Richmond will no longer have to disclose felony convictions on initial applications.

Posted: 10:23 AM Gov. Bob McDonnell has amended the transportation funding reform bill to potentially extend regional taxing authorities beyond Virginia's urban areas to other areas statewide in an effort to satisfy concerns about its constitutionality.

Posted: 10:21 AM A bill requiring voters to bring photo identification with them to the polls will become law next year in Virginia.

Posted: 10:20 AM Dominion Virginia Power has won state approval to buy electricity from customer-owned solar installations.

Posted: 3:26 PM Family members are remembering a Marine from Northern California who was shot and killed at a base in Virginia as brave and full of dreams.

Updated: 2:20 PM The spring snow is not expected to affect Washington's famous cherry blossoms.

Posted: 12:50 PM The number of contractors working at NASA's Langley Research Center could shrink as the result of automatic spending cuts.

Posted: 11:34 AM Hollister Inc. plans to expand and upgrade its manufacturing plant in Augusta County.

Posted: 10:35 AM Virginia is preparing for potential base realignments and closures by hiring a consultant to study the state's military assets.

Updated: 10:20 AM About 14,000 customers are without electricity in Virginia as a spring storm moves across the state.

Updated: 12:52 PM School leaders are working with the county to make up for a $2 million budget shortfall.

Posted: 3:41 PM The city of Martinsville's jobless rate remained the highest in Virginia in January.

Posted: 12:11 PM The commander at Marine Corps. Base Quantico in northern Virginia says a shooting in which a Marine killed a male and female colleague before killing himself was isolated to a single building.

Posted: 12:08 PM A $5 million gift from a Washington-area financier and his wife will double help double the enrollment in the clinical nurse leader's program at the University of Virginia School of Nursing.

Posted: 4:21 PM The attorney for a former NASA contractor who was arrested on his way to China says he will plead not guilty to lying to federal agents.

Posted: 1:32 PM Flu cases in Virginia have dropped from widespread levels for the first time in 13 weeks.

Posted: 11:47 AM Dominion Resources' charitable foundation is offering $1.3 million in education grants.

Posted: 10:28 AM A second man has pleaded guilty to wearing a clown mask in a Virginia Beach theater.