Posted: 4:59 PM Some in the faith community are calling on legislators to support a 36 percent annual interest rate cap on payday lenders.

Updated: 3:44 PM NFL quarterback Michael Vick has filed his plea agreement on dogfighting charges.

Updated: 5:40 PM State education officials say 72 percent of Virginia's public schools met annual performance benchmarks in reading and mathematics under the No Child Left Behind law.

Updated: 1:06 PM Republican leaders in Virginia's House and Senate have taken the wraps off a plan to ease the bite of the state's abusive drivers law.

Updated: 1:07 PM The government says an Ohio importer has recalled nearly 250,000 SpongeBob SquarePants address books and journals manufactured in China.

Posted: 5:21 PM It's the latest chapter of online interaction with presidential candidates.

Updated: 1:17 PM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a new intelligence assessment on Iraq confirms what he says many Americans already know: Iraq is wading through a civil war and the president's so-called troop surge has failed.

Posted: 5:08 PM The Pentagon says the level of violence in Iraq is at the lowest level since June of last year.

Posted: 5:02 PM The federal appeals court in Richmond will reconsider a ruling that the government should charge Ali al-Marri or release him from military custody.

Posted: 5:01 PM The Manassas Park City Council says it will consider new measures against illegal immigrants.

Updated: 12:48 PM Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has chosen former Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore to lead his campaign team in Virginia.

Updated: 3:44 PM The national president of the NAACP says Falcons quarterback Michael Vick "is not a victim" and should be held responsible for his actions involving a dogfighting ring in Virginia.

Updated: 11:46 AM A Roman Catholic priest charged in state court with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from two rural churches is now facing federal fraud charges.

Updated: 3:44 PM More than 50 pit bulls seized from Michael Vick's property must be claimed by Thursday.

Posted: 5:59 PM Stafford County is the latest Virginia locality to take a stand against illegal immigration.

Posted: 5:57 PM Fairfax County Chairman Gerry Connolly is firing back at Prince William County officials over illegal immigration. Connolly says the crackdown planned by Prince William is unworkable and will lead to racial profiling.

Posted: 5:51 PM A division of the Homeland Security Department has proposed making hundreds of thousands of legal residents whose green cards don't have expiration dates pay $370 to replace them.

Posted: 5:45 PM Virginia Tech's internal review of the April 16 shootings recommends more monitoring of troubled students, classroom locks and other security measures.

Posted: 5:40 PM Authorities at Virginia Tech will not escape scrutiny for some of their actions in the hours between two shooting sprees that left 33 people dead in April.

Posted: 5:37 PM The prosecution has rested in the court martial of the only officer charged with abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Updated: 3:44 PM The Atlanta chapter of the NAACP says the NFL should let Michael Vick play professional football again, after he serves his sentence for his part in a dogfighting enterprise.

Posted: 5:29 PM Fred Thompson said on a Richmond radio station Wednesday that he's getting very close to announcing whether he will run for president.

Updated: 11:46 AM State officials are recommending changing the way Virginia law defines a restaurant.

Posted: 3:22 PM Virginia Tech officials say they were working to correct the misspelling of the name of one of the 32 victims of the April shooting on a memorial dedicated on Sunday.

Posted: 3:01 PM Several soldiers leading a training program have been suspended and face administrative action after a Virginia Army sergeant died during a solo navigation exercise.