Updated: 5:32 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismisses the Democratic resurgence in last November's elections as an aberration.

Posted: 5:13 PM Chief Justice John Roberts has been released from the hospital, a day after having a seizure at his vacation home in Maine.

Posted: 5:13 PM A judge in suburban Richmond has set a trial date for a man charged with abducting and killing a six-year-old boy in 1980.

Posted: 5:06 PM Authorities at the Northern Neck Regional Jail say three inmates armed themselves with homemade knives and barricaded themselves in a prison hallway on Sunday, then surrendered a few hours later.

Posted: 5:02 PM A federal judge in Roanoke has issued a stay of execution for a man convicted of killing a Lynchburg couple, so that the condemned man can file an appeal.

Posted: 4:53 PM Police in Johnson City, Tennessee arrested a Bristol, Virginia, minister for driving under the influence and indecent exposure.

Posted: 4:49 PM The Dan River Outlet in Danville is closing its doors Tuesday, a sure sign of the continuing decline of Virginia's textile industry.

Posted: 4:42 PM A plan to avoid traffic headaches by moving thousands of federal jobs to a Springfield site owned by the General Services Administration is not a done deal.

Posted: 4:42 PM Metro is reviewing its contract with a pest control company after a poison scare closed three subway stations Sunday.

Posted: 4:41 PM The cost of extending Metrorail to Dulles International Airport will start going up tomorrow by $3 million to $6 million a month.

Updated: 10:44 AM One of the co-defendants in the Michael Vick dog fighting case has already pled guilty to the charges.

Posted: 6:14 PM The farm bill moving through Congress would reopen a landmark discrimination settlement that black farmers reached with the Agriculture Department eight years ago.

Updated: 10:45 AM Michael Vick says he's put Atlanta and Falcons owner Arthur Blank through a difficult experience, but he hopes circumstances will permit him to play with the team again.

Posted: 6:12 PM Researchers at George Mason University say Virginia residents have complex views when it comes to illegal immigration.

Posted: 5:40 PM Officials in James City County are looking at the possibility of denying county services to illegal immigrants.

Posted: 5:35 PM Shoppers are preparing for Virginia's second yearly sales tax holiday for school supplies.

Posted: 5:35 PM Time, distance and the tranquil setting of Madagascar are helping Colin Goddard recover from the Virginia Tech shootings.

Updated: 10:44 AM Georgia leaders of the NAACP urged the public Monday not to judge Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick before he has his day in court.

Updated: 7:04 PM One of Michael Vick's co-defendants pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that he says was financed almost entirely by the Atlanta Falcons quarterback.

Posted: 5:21 PM A proposed ethanol plant in Chesapeake would consume nearly twice as much corn as Virginia farmers grew last year, requiring the operator to rely on foreign and out-of-state growers.

Updated: 5:15 PM Virginia will end a ban on live poultry sales and shows tomorrow, three weeks after avian flu antibodies were found in turkeys on a Shenandoah County farm.

Posted: 5:14 PM A soldier from Norfolk has been killed in Iraq.

Posted: 5:04 PM Five years ago, West Nile virus seemed like a major public health issue in the D.C. area. Today, local cases of the disease are becoming more and more rare.

Posted: 5:04 PM A four-year-old girl on her way to her birthday party was thrown from a horse-drawn carriage in Roanoke after two draft horses pulling it bolted.

Posted: 4:57 PM Virginia State Police say one person was killed in a small-aircraft crash in Franklin County.