VIRGINIA

Can a DeSantis-style base play win a statewide election in Pennsylvania?

Witnesses are expected to take the stand Wednesday in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard.

Actress Amber Heard is expected to take the witness stand again on Tuesday for her fourth day of testimony in a libel suit filed against her by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

Amber Heard is expected to take the witness stand Monday for a third day of testimony in a libel suit filed against her by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

Fred Miller purchased a property to host family gatherings, only to learn it was once a planation where his ancestors were enslaved.

The U.S. is facing its worst pilot shortage in recent memory, forcing airlines to cut flights just as travelers are returning after more than two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Top Fuel points leader Brittany Force broke both ends of the track record at Virginia Motorsports Park in qualifying Friday for the Virginia NHRA Nationals. In the NHRA’s first event at the track in three years, Force had a 3.710-second run at 335.82 mph. She has nine of the 10 fastest runs in Top Fuel history. “It cleared up and (crew chief David) Grubnic had a goal set and we hit that mark,” Force said.

The Republican governors are asking for federal law enforcement to take the lead in protecting the justices in the weeks and months ahead as protests continue.

A weekly selection of five bottles you should be drinking.

Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

Domestic fares continued to surpass 2019 levels due to a rebound in demand and more expensive fuel this year.

Prices at the pump are at the highest on record.

Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens. When Medeiros confronted a hunter nearby, the man told him he had permission to hunt on Medeiros’ property. In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object.

Target employees at a store in Virginia filed on Tuesday with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election.

A growing number of experts are making a business out of teaching people how to grow their own pot. Here's what to know to get started.

Michigan’s golf team dropped two spots in the team standings on day two of an NCAA regional at University of Michigan Golf Course, but it still is in good position to advance to the NCAA finals. Scoring | https://t.co/FlNcgzTXEh〽️⛳️ | #GoBlue 🏆 pic.twitter.com/zXOGYoDXYV — Michigan Women's Golf (@UMichWGolf) May 10, 2022It trails No. Michigan could have had a larger cushion heading into Wednesday, but it played the final two holes 7-over as a team. Hailey Borja paced the Wolverines, hosting their first regional since 2007, by carding a 1-over-par 72. The junior from Lake Forest, California was two under on the front nine and climbed from 13th to tied for eighth overall (73, 72) in the individual standings.

Prasidha Padmanabhan is leading a modern-day crusade to rewrite the history books in one of the country's largest school districts.

Boeing says it plans to move its corporate headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.

Actor Amber Heard is set to take the stand in her own defense once again on Thursday in a civil suit filed by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.

The Supreme Court’s apparent intention to abolish a nationwide right to abortion, spelled out in a draft opinion leaked this week, will not be the final chapter in the nation’s most pitched culture battle.

The man the physically caught Abraham Lincoln’s assassin founded Nashville, Michigan.

A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is liable for fatally beating his girlfriend in 2010 and must pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit, a jury found Monday. George Huguely V is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the killing of Yeardley Love after being convicted of second-degree murder during a 2012 criminal trial. The lawsuit sought to hold Huguely civilly liable in Love's death and asked the jury to award $29.5 million in compensatory damages, plus $1 million in punitive damages to her mother, Sharon Love, the administrator of her estate.

A manager for Johnny Depp said the movie was put on ice after Amber Heard's Washington Post op-ed describing herself as a domestic violence victim.

A 2016 letter from Amber Heard's lawyer was shown in court on Wednesday as evidence in Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial against his ex-wife.

Last year was a time of double-digit multiple offers and jaw-dropping escalations. But as low inventory and high demand drove prices up, they also curtailed sales. Only Virginia saw a big increase in homes sold.

Inez Foulk’s non-custodial mother is accused of taking the girl and driving to Virginia before she was caught, police say.

The NFL has said it engaged former SEC chair Mary Jo White "to review the most serious matters raised by the committee."

Spring lambs have arrived at Peterson Farm in Falmouth.

The Supreme Court has turned away a plea from parents to block a new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia that a lower court had found discriminates against Asian American students.

The former White House chief of staff has decried the inaccuracy of voter rolls because people moved and yet did not inform election officials himself.

A sought-after Virginia neighborhood that once held a church is now filled with affordable housing.

Two sailors were found dead at off-base locations on April 9 and 10. A third was found unresponsive on board and later died, CNN reported.

The five-bedroom home with a basement tenant and $25,000 worth of repairs is reportedly under contract within days of hitting the market.

There’s a house on sale in Virginia that comes complete with a person—maybe more—in its basement. Alas, there’s a teensy fly (or two) in the ointment: firstly, the person. Actually, according to the News & Observer, there may be multiple people included in the fine print of this house’s sale, each of whom won’t even be contributing to the rent. The same Axios D.C. article explains that the house is additionally a DIY project, as it has three broken toilets among other issues. And thus, a summary of where the 2022 housing market is at.

"People cannot afford a home. That is the American dream — or rather was the American dream. We need to get back to that."

A jury has convicted a British national for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

A jury convicted a British national Thursday for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded. In convicting Elsheikh, the jury concluded that he was one of the notorious “Beatles,” Islamic State captors nicknamed for their accents and known for their cruelty — torturing and beating prisoners, forcing them to fight each other until they collapsed and even making them sing cruel song parodies. Surviving hostages testified that the Beatles delighted themselves rewriting “Hotel California” as “Hotel Osama” and making them sing the refrain “You will never leave.”

El Shafee Elsheikh is one of three British men accused in brutal ISIS hostage-taking scheme that led to the deaths of four Americans.

Three dozen House Democrats say Saudi Arabia is being a bad strategic partner.

Mark Meadows backed claims by Donald Trump that ballot fraud lead to his loss to President Joe Biden. Now Meadows is being probed for possible voter fraud.

The former White House chief of staff faces a probe over an allegation that he never resided at the address he put on his voter registration ahead of the 2020 election.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are facing off again in libel trial

VAN BUREN COUNTY, MI – A Virginia man remains in jail awaiting his next court appearance for allegedly crashing into a Michigan State Police vehicle on I-94, pinning the trooper inside. Easton R. Norby-Vardac, 24, appeared in Paw Paw District Court on Monday, April 11 and was charged with single counts of reckless driving causing serious impairment of a bodily function and failure to yield for an emergency responder causing injury. The incident started when a trooper was responding to a crash on I-94 when his patrol vehicle was hit by a semitrailer, driven by Norby-Vardac, on April 8. The trooper was released from the hospital April 9 and began the recovery process at home, police said. Read more on MLive:Teen turns himself in, awaits arraignment for shooting man in KalamazooSexual partner turns in Michigan man after seeing child porn on phoneThese airlines have the most delays

The trial is expected to last for more than a month.

Elon Musk and James Franco will take the stand at a celebrity trial that is being broadcast live.

Now 75, Penny Parrish wonders what will become of a dollhouse her dad built that is a replica of her childhood home in Bensenville.

Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for libel in 2019, and the case is going to trial in Fairfax County, Virginia.

"I'm just fed up with the racism around, especially at our academic institutions," Joel Mungo said. "It's time to take a stand."

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday called for a response from a Virginia school system regarding a controversial admissions policy at a highly selective high school and efforts by a coalition of parents to overturn it. Roberts was responding to an emergency application from the group Coalition For TJ to vacate a stay pending an appeal filed by the Fairfax County Public Schools to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On March 31, a three-judge appeals panel ruled that the school system can continue to use its new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology while it appeals a ruling that found the policy discriminates against Asian American students.

While friendly close contact is essential to dolphin social bonds, sharing space and air can also quickly spread disease

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — He’s big, he’s strong and he knows his stuff, setting the stage for what could be another strong season up front along Michigan’s offensive line. He entered the transfer portal after Bronco Mendenhall stepped aside, and Michigan immediately jumped to the top of his interest list. He’s strong. More Michigan football coverage from MLive:Ex-Michigan TE inks deal with NFL’s Cincinnati BengalsAidan Hutchinson visits Jaguars; still projected to go No. Stan Parrish, Tom Brady’s QBs coach at Michigan, has diedQB J.J. McCarthy (still) limited in Michigan’s spring game

A gator spotted north of the Carolinas may be an abandoned illegal pet.

WASHINGTON – A Virginia woman who was reportedly staying in a home where authorities last week found five fetuses also has a pending case in Genesee County Circuit Court, county and federal court records show. Lauren Handy of Alexandria, Virginia, was staying in a home located in the 400 block of 6th Street, SE, where officers from the Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday, March 30, found five fetuses while investigating a tip regarding potential bio-hazard material.

Over the weekend, six people died in a Sacramento shooting. Two others died as a result of other shootings in Dallas and Virginia.

In an effort to figure out who is buried in the graves, archaeologists and park staff are reaching out to the public for help.

Denny Hamlin ran down William Byron with five laps to go and ended the slowest start to a season of his career with a victory in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway.

A growing number of college baseball teams are moving away from the tradition of catchers using their fingers and hands for pitch signs.

When he's on the mound, Clemson left-hander Ryan Ammons will feel a little tingle on his right arm. Instead, it's a reminder telling him to look at the digital display on his wristband to find out the type of pitch to throw next and where to locate it. For a growing number of college baseball teams, the tradition of pitch signs sent by the catcher flashing his fingers and wiggling his hand is disappearing.

Police Chief Larry Boone told news outlets that the shooting was prompted by an argument over money, and that he believed the male victim and the suspect were related. Boone said he didn’t know if the two women had any relationship to the shooter or the man who was killed.

Virginia state agencies responding to a severe snowstorm that stranded hundreds of motorists along Interstate 95 in January collectively lost what a report called “situational awareness” amid the growing gridlock.

COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.

Martin Truex Jr. left Richmond Raceway a winner in his last visit to the Virginia short track, a playofff victory last September that helped him get into NASCAR's championship round and showed the veteran has plenty left in his tank. The 41-year-old Truex is in the final year of his contract with Joe Gibbs Racing and hasn't decided how long he wants to continue his career. There is no wait-and-see going on with Truex, who in his 17th full Cup Series season is grappling with NASCAR's new Next Gen car.

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors.

Millions of people are quitting their jobs each month, while job openings are near record highs and layoffs are low. But the labor trend may have plateaued.

The Navy says the Norfolk, Va.-based plane was conducting routine flight operations off the Virginia/Maryland border, near Wallops Island, Virginia, when it went down.

Authorities say two crewmembers rescued from the midweek crash of a U.S. Navy aircraft in Eastern Shore waters near the Virginia-Maryland line remain hospitalized.

A warrant that used Google location history to find people near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery violated their constitutional protection against unreasonable searches, a federal judge has ruled. The decision — believed to be the first of its kind — could make it more difficult for police to continue using an investigative technique that has exploded in popularity in recent years, privacy experts say. The ruling came earlier this month in a closely watched Virginia case in which the robbery suspect argued that the use of a “geofence warrant” violated the Fourth Amendment.

Imagine going 180 feet in the air, then a 95-degree plummet, five airtime hills, two inversions, and four launches. That describes the new record-breaking rollercoaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It is called Pantheon, and it is the world’s fastest multi-launch roller coaster.

The problems the nursing industry is experiencing lately aren’t new issues, said Melissa, 41, who’s in Roanoke, Virginia.

Wake Forest meets Boston College in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament looking for another win on its NCAA Tournament resume.

A family from Virginia that traveled to Detroit for Autorama is seeking the public’s help to find their truck and trailer, which were stolen from outside their downtown hotel.

Virginia lawmakers have ended for another year efforts to put basic limits on how they can spend money donated to their campaigns.

Christine always envisioned a career in nursing. It’s all she ever wanted, professionally.

Virginia lawmakers are advancing a measure intended to lure the Washington Commanders to the state by allowing the NFL team to forgo what could be $1 billion or more in future tax payments to help finance a potential new football stadium.

The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hefty legislative agenda has been dealt a series of expected blows in the first half of the General Assembly session by the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Virginia's Department of Education is conducting a review designed to root out critical race theory in schools.

The Richmond Fire Investigations Unit are working to determine the cause and origin of a fire that engulfed William Fox Elementary School in Richmond.

A state official says a deputy Virginia attorney general has resigned after The Washington Post raised questions about social media comments the newspaper reported she made about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and other matters.

Washington Commanders safety Deshazor Everett faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a petition from parents that sought to invalidate Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order prohibiting school systems from enforcing mask mandates in the classroom.

A man serving life sentences in Virginia for raping and killing a woman in 1980 was sentenced Monday to an additional 35 to 50 years in prison in Michigan for the 1989 killing of his 14-year-old daughter.

The Virginia Military Institute will change its student-run honor court to make it more fair to cadets as part of a response to a state-ordered investigation into racism and sexism.

A judge is scheduled to hear arguments over whether local school boards or Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin have the final say on whether students must wear masks at school.

A group of about 130 former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees and others who have worked directly with Andrew Wheeler wrote to the Virginia Senate over the weekend to urge lawmakers to approve the former EPA administrator’s nomination to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet.

Police say a Virginia man has been arrested for drunkenly crashing a car into Taylor Swift’s New York City apartment building and trying to gain entry.

Parts of 10 eastern U.S. states are under blizzard warnings as a powerful storm that could dump as much as 2 feet of snow on Boston begins churning up the coast.

A Virginia man who wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt at the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot has pleaded guilty to joining the mob of people who stormed the building.

A layer of ice and a blanket of snow has covered coastal areas stretching from South Carolina to Virginia.

A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice is blasting through parts of the U.S. Southeast.

Forecasts of snow and ice as far south as Georgia have put much of the Southeast on an emergency preparedness footing as shoppers strip store shelves of supplies and road crews treat highways ahead of an approaching weekend storm.

Forecasters' predictions of debilitating snow and ice as far south as Georgia have shoppers scouring store shelves for storm supplies and road crews trying to prevent a repeat of past wintertime debacles.

With more bad weather looming, Virginia officials are seeking to reassure the public they are prepared as they reacted to harsh criticism of their response to a storm earlier this week that left hundreds of motorists stranded on Interstate 95.

Virginia officials are defending their response to the snowy gridlock that resulted on Interstate 95 after a winter storm dumped nearly 11 inches of snow.

A family that was stuck on Interstate 95 and other roads in Virginia by a snowstorm says they went more than 18 hours without eating or sleeping.

The waiting is over for the last of the drivers who got stranded overnight on an interstate highway in Virginia.

Three Democratic attorneys general are seeking to overturn the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and add it to the Constitution.

A winter storm packing heavy snow has closed government offices and schools in the nation's capital and surrounding suburbs.

States across the country are taking steps to try to deter the thefts of catalytic converters.

The enormous pedestal where the Robert E.