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More than 19 million Americans have a felony conviction on their permanent record.

A Virginia bill that would require transgender athletes in public schools to play on teams that match their biological sex passed in the House.

The school in Newport News, Virginia where first-grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by a 6-year-old boy on Jan. 6 has reopened Monday.

A group of juveniles have been charged with second-degree murder after a 16-year-old boy was shot to death in Virginia. They were also charged with robbery and use of a firearm.

The Virginia elementary school where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher has reopened with stepped-up security and a new administrator.

Virginia Hayden was set to stand trial for murdering her husband when a surprise witness came forward.

A convicted sex offender who has been on the run for 17 years for attempted rape was arrested in Atlanta. He dragged a woman into the woods and tried to rape her in 1995.

In several focus groups in battlegrounds, independents worry the new House majority's focus on investigations is just part of a "get-even" culture.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Marco Rubio will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

Authorities are continuing their search for Virginia and Tennessee inmates who escaped from a regional jail. The two escaped Thursday afternoon from the recreational yard.

"1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones is set to receive over $35,000 just for one Virginia county library speaking engagement next month.

Virginia authorities released the surveillance videos after two people broke into a shooting range and stole 10 handguns.

President Biden slammed critics on Thursday, who do not believe America can lead the world in manufacturing, after boasting the creation of 750,000 jobs during his first two years.

A Virginia man previously convicted of trying to help ISIS is accused of meeting with 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh.

As it heads into its first quarter of 2023, the airline carrier expects capacity to be 8% to 10% higher than the first quarter of 2022.

The Virginia teacher shot by one of her first-grade students earlier this month plans to sue the school district that reportedly downplayed warnings before the incident took place.

Concerned teachers and employees warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a 6-year-old boy had a gun and was threatening other students in the hours before he shot and wounded a teacher, “but the administration could not be bothered,” a lawyer for the teacher said Wednesday. Diane Toscano, an attorney for Abigail Zwerner, said during a news conference that she has notified the Newport News School Board that the 25-year-old teacher at Richneck Elementary School plans to sue the school district over the Jan. 6 shooting, which left Zwerner with serious injuries.

The mission was Rocket Lab's 33rd to date, but the first from U.S. soil. The company has been regularly launching from private launchpads in New Zealand.

Newport News Superintendent George Parker III could be fired on Wednesday, over shootings in the district over the past 18 months, the most recent involving a 6-year-old boy.

The small satellite launch company Rocket Lab aced its debut liftoff from American soil on Tuesday (Jan. 24)

The company, based in California, had previously launched rockets from its facility in New Zealand, but it hopes to fly more frequently from the United States.

After 32 launches from Rocket Lab's New Zealand facility, the company is now set for regular flights from Virginia's Eastern Shore.

A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his teacher.

A new era of rocket launches from NASA’s facility on Wallops Island in Virginia began tonight with the much-anticipated launch of Rocket Lab’s Electron small-lift launch vehicle.

The remains of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill were moved to his hometown in Virginia. His statue, which was also removed, was Richmond’s last standing Confederate monument.

The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown.

The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown. Last month, Richmond, which served as the Confederacy’s capital for most of the Civil War, removed the statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill and the general's remains buried beneath after a court battle. On Saturday, hundreds of people, including Confederate reenactors, gathered to pay their respects to the general at a ceremony in Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Hill’s hometown, The Free Lance-Star reported.

The governor of Virginia is blocking a potential Ford battery factory that would have provided thousands of jobs in an impoverished area—based on fearmongering about China.

Bad weather has pushed Rocket Lab's first-ever launch from U.S. soil back a day, to Tuesday (Jan. 24).

The following is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia that aired Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, on "Face the Nation."

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears calls out "rogue educators" and teachers unions over the merit awards scandal, criticizing the push for woke ideology in schools on "Cavuto Live."

Officials at the Newport News elementary school in Virginia reportedly downplayed concerns voiced by the first-grade teacher before she was shot by her six-year-old student.

A female middle school student was allegedly sexually assaulted in her school bathroom earlier this month. Police are investigating the incident.

A Virginia jury did not believe a woman who claim police officers protected a prostitution ring that threatened her if she stopped working.

A jury on Friday rejected a woman's allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers protected a prostitution ring that she said trafficked her. The eight-person civil jury found that the woman, identified in court only as Jane Doe, was not a victim of trafficking but was instead a willing sex worker. Once the jury reached that conclusion, it did not have to consider the question of the officers' alleged involvement in protecting the prostitution ring.

Kaine stepped into the national spotlight when he ran for vice president with Democrat Hillary Clinton on a ticket that lost to Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

Around 10,000 flights were delayed because of the outage of a pilot-alerting system.

Four tapes mysteriously donated to a library reveal uncertainty behind the scenes of the death chamber — and indicate the prison neglected to record evidence during an execution gone wrong.

A jury has convicted a Navy reservist from Virginia accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 on separate charges that he illegally possessed silencers disguised to look like innocuous cleaning supplies. The conviction Wednesday night against Hatchet Speed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria comes a month after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his first trial, resulting in a mistrial.

Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit in 2021 saying he was pepper-sprayed, struck and had his car illegally searched by two officers with the Windsor Police Department in Virginia.

Fairfax County, Va. mom Asra Nomani called out her son's merit notification delay and voiced her concerns about the agenda of 'equity warriors' on 'The Story.'

Democratic Virginia lawmakers introduced a bill that would grant minors access to medical and health care without requiring parental consent.

When a 6-year-old shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in this shipbuilding city near Virginia’s coast, the community reacted with collective shock. During a three-hour school board meeting dedicated solely to public comment, Newport News teachers and parents said students who assaulted classmates and staff were routinely allowed to stay in the classroom with few consequences. “Every day in every one of our schools, teachers, students and other staff members are being hurt,” high school librarian Nicole Cooke told the board.

“However, this is exactly what our community is grappling with today.” “I never thought elementary students being the shooter was a possibility we would ever see,” says Kendra Newton, a first-grade teacher in Florida. Jennifer Talarico, a psychology professor at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, believes the case hits differently in part because it violates society’s expectations for both school shootings (of which there were two others elsewhere in the country that day) and childhood itself.

'The Five' co-host Greg Gutfeld shared his take on why it is important to notice the difference between equality and equity.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares expanding his human rights investigation outside Fairfax County after it's revealed at least 14 schools withheld merit awards from students.

The former chief and three ex-officers in Fairfax County, Virginia, are facing a civil lawsuit from an illegal immigrant and alleged trafficking victim alleging they paid for sex acts.

A Virginia prosecutor said in a letter that her office will not be involved in the prosecution of some misdemeanor crimes, deferring to law enforcement.

The first-grader's backpack was searched, but there was no weapon found inside, Superintendent George Parker said.View Entire Post ›

A city in Virginia where a 6-year-old student shot his teacher will be installing metal detectors. There was no struggle before the gun was fired at the first-grade teacher.

The woman known to jurors only as Jane Doe shook her head Thursday when her lawyer asked her a question she knew was coming but clearly dreaded — could she describe the injuries she suffered during five years in a Virginia-based sex trafficking ring? It was the most dramatic moment thus far in a trial focused on blockbuster allegations that the former police chief in Fairfax County and the three officers were clients of the prostitution ring and that they served as its protectors by tipping off the head of the enterprise, Hazel Sanchez, when stings and undercover police would be in the area.

More than 400 U.S. flights were delayed on Thursday following an FAA ground stop that delayed thousands of flights.

The 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot his first grade teacher will likely not face charges, according to experts. However, the parent's of the boy could under gun safety laws.

Police in the Virginia city of Newport News say a 6-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher at his school during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom.

The Colonial Pipeline says a diesel fuel leak in Virginia has shut down part of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, but it is expected to restart Saturday.

Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan has overwhelmingly won the Democratic nomination to succeed the late A.

There are just 26 games involving ranked teams in the AP men's basketball poll over the next week.

Jarace Walker scored 17 points and No. 5 Houston used runs in each half and the nation’s best scoring defense to beat No. 2 Virginia 69-61.

Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden helped pack presents for children and encouraged holiday cheer as the White House marked the 75th anniversary of Toys for Tots at an event hosted by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

The city of Richmond _ the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War _ has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue.

Since CarePortal launched in Central Virginia in 2020, they’ve served served more than 3,000 children with an economic impact of $1.3 million.

An official says work to remove the final city-owned Confederate monument from Richmond, Virginia, should start this week.

Authorities say a Virginia sheriff’s deputy who they believe traveled to California to kill three family members of a 15-year-old girl he tried to sexually extort online killed himself with a government-issued firearm.

With the passage of the the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages, The Associated Press is republishing its 1967 story by reporter Karl R.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swept into office as a Republican revelation with a fresh formula for victory as the GOP contemplated its future beyond Donald Trump.

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Hundreds gathered in Chesapeake, Virginia, to honor six people killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart.

Five days have passed since Lorenzo Gamble was killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia.

The mass shooting Wednesday at a Walmart in Virginia is only the latest example of a workplace shooting perpetrated by an employee.

Police and witnesses say a manager at a Virginia Walmart pulled out a handgun before a routine employee meeting and began firing wildly in the break room, killing six people and injuring at least six others.

Virginia climbed 11 spots to No. 5 in this week's AP Top 25 following a difficult week.

Reece Beekman and No. 16 Virginia capped an emotional week by going on a late 13-point run to defeat No. 19 Illinois 70-61 to win the Continental Tire Main Event.

Thousands of people have joined Virginia’s football team, coaches and staff in honoring three players who were shot dead as they returned from a field trip last weekend.

Armaan Franklin scored a career-high 26 points, and No. 16 Virginia used a big second-half run to knock off No. 5 Baylor 86-79 in the team’s first game since three Cavaliers football players were killed in a campus shooting.

Virginia’s basketball players wore sweatshirts in warmups for Friday's game against Baylor that honored three Cavaliers football players who were fatally shot nearly a week ago.

Students hid inside laboratory closets and dorm rooms across the University of Virginia after getting warnings of an active shooter.

Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus shooting were remembered Monday by head football coach Tony Elliott as “all good kids.”.

Pittsburgh has gotten off to as fast a start as a defense can at Virginia.

It’s taken 60 years and billions of dollars, but mass transit is finally coming to Dulles International Airport outside the nation’s capital.

Under gray clouds and pouring rain at Arlington National Cemetery, Vice President Kamala Harris has told the nation’s veterans their work makes America stronger.

A newly launched cargo capsule has run into trouble with a solar panel after liftoff.

Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria is spending the closing days of her reelection campaign in the new parts of her Virginia district to gain the support of Black residents whose votes could well determine if she gets a third term.

A collection from the estate of General Colin Powell of nearly 400 items stretching from the momentous to the mundane is currently up for auction.

Why a focus on Virginia’s most in demand industries could be the answer to less student debt.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is promoting Biden administration policies as the key to advancing the nation’s “long-term economic well-being” in the lead-up to the midterm elections.

The news that 70 million people will see an 8.7% boost in their Social Security checks next year came just weeks before Election Day, but it's unlikely to give Democrats the edge they're desperately seeking at the polls.

The office of Virginia's attorney general has handed off jurisdiction in a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses at a hospital that serves vulnerable children.

A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled to Washington before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Wednesday about a massive cache of weapons the far-right extremist group stashed in a Virginia hotel room.

Virginia has denied parole to convicted Washington, D.

School districts around the country are working to beef up security measures. This school year, safety of students is top of mind more than ever. That's why school systems like Roanoke City are having to rethink the way they do things.

A judge in Virginia has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors by booksellers and libraries.

The program transports animals to the Cherry Hill Road facility using a specially-equipped van and trained staff.

Advocates for transgender people say a federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could hurt conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care.

A Virginia man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison on federal bank robbery charges in a case that tested the constitutionality of broad search warrants that use Google location history to identify people near the scene of a crime.

Beagles rescued from a research facility in Cumberland, Virginia, are headed to Tree Town to find their forever homes.

There were more than 41,000 traffic deaths in 2021 alone, but experts are creating solutions. Don’t miss the innovations keeping drivers and pedestrians safe.

25 out of 4,000 beagles are relocating to Grand Rapids after being mistreated in Virginia.

Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax says he recently met with the FBI to discuss his concerns about the two 2019 sexual assault allegations against him.

Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in certain abortion-related search results.