Posted: 3:30 PM Virginia's Republican Party, now under tea party control, will gavel its convention to order Friday and is preparing to formalize Ken Cuccinelli's gubernatorial nomination and decide its two other statewide candidates.
Posted: 1:00 PM The Virginia Employment Commission says the state's jobless rate fell in April for the second consecutive month.
Posted: 11:05 AM Gov. Bob McDonnell is launching an ambitious campaign to match more than 1,000 children in foster care with 1,000 adoptive parents.
Posted: 10:21 AM Rates at Virginia's community colleges are going up.
Posted: 4:23 PM Virginia transportation officials worked for hours to remove a huge makeshift shelter a homeless man built and lived in for 9 years.
Posted: 10:51 AM The Virginia Lottery says someone bought a $1 million Powerball ticket in Christiansburg.
Posted: 10:26 AM The owner of a hotel in Norfolk will pay nearly $11 million to settle a lawsuit over a toddler's fall from a walkway.
Posted: 3:30 PM A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Gov. Bob McDonnell's job approval dipping to its lowest point in two years.
Updated: 1:58 PM Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has recused his office from representing Gov. Bob McDonnell in matters related to theft charges against the Executive Mansion's former chef and hired a team of five private lawyers.
Posted: 11:22 AM Two Southside Virginia voices against uranium mining are joining forces.
Posted: 11:09 AM Officials at Shenandoah National Park are working on a plan to stop the spread of chronic wasting disease.
Posted: 10:22 AM Virginia farmers produce enough eggs to make more than 1 billion deviled eggs annually.
Updated: 2:36 PM Virginia general revenue increased last month by 2.2 percent over April 2012 in one of the year's most significant tax collection months, putting Virginia slightly ahead of its budgeted forecast 10 months through its fiscal year.
Posted: 10:46 AM The politically charged embezzlement case against a former Virginia Executive Mansion chef is back before a Richmond judge.
Updated: 10:33 AM Virginia Tech University President Charles Steger is stepping down.
Posted: 10:23 AM A Virginia couple has been arrested on a South Carolina beach after police say the couple was found nude.
Posted: 12:58 PM Fans of the local offerings at farmers' markets now have another incentive to seek them out.
Posted: 11:42 AM Gov. Bob McDonnell has scheduled a ceremonial signing for a signature legislative triumph.
Updated: 10:25 AM The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says the state wheat crop is expected to top 16 million bushels in 2013.
Updated: 11:57 AM An FBI agent in Stafford County is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged wife.
Posted: 3:19 PM A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to three years and two months in federal prison for running an interstate prostitution ring.
Updated: 3:05 PM The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his nephew has been buried in Virginia.
Posted: 11:48 AM Virginia State Police will hold a ceremony to honor 59 troopers who died.
Posted: 10:07 AM U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine is traveling to Slaughter Pen battlefield in Fredericksburg to promote a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the American Battlefield Protection Program.
