Virginia

Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves posted the comment last weekend on his Facebook page.

Virginia has rolled out a smartphone app to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.

Virginia has removed from its iconic state capitol the busts and a statue honoring Confederate generals and officials

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the removal of all Confederate statues on city land. “We have an urgent need to protect the public,” Stoney said in a statement.

The family of a Virginia man who has been held in Spain for the last year on drug trafficking charges says he was an unwitting courier for a criminal syndicate

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has announced he’ll propose making Juneteenth an official holiday in a state that once was home to the capital of the Confederacy

Protesters have pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the former capital of the Confederacy, adding it to the list of Old South monuments removed or damaged around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death

A southwest Virginia man who blew off his hand in an apparent explosives accident has been charged in federal court after authorities say they found evidence he was making a bomb and wanted to target “hot cheerleaders.”

Two thieves decided to forego face masks and opt instead for watermelons while allegedly stealing from a store in central Virginia, police say. The suspects arrived at a Sheetz convenience store in Louisa on May 6 wearing hollowed-out watermelons with eye holes. Louisa police said the suspects then stole undisclosed items from the store before fleeing in a “lifted” 2006…

Police are searching for a missing 13-year-old Bucks County boy who drove away from home in a minivan that was last spotted in Virginia.  On May 3 around 3:30 a.m., Kadin Kent Willauer was spotted leaving his home on 2000 John Fries Highway in Milford Township, Pennsylvania. Police said Willauer was driving his parents’ vehicle, a 2016 white Chrysler Town…

An online sting operation in northern Virginia has resulted in the arrests of 30 men charged with trolling the Internet to solicit sex from minors.

Coronavirus has erupted inside a juvenile detention center in Virginia where officials said Friday 25 kids tested positive

Firefighters in Virginia made a daring rescue of a truck driver whose tractor trailer was nearly blown off a bridge.

A 29-year-old man is in a Washington, D.C., intensive care unit recovering from coronavirus and he has a warning to young people and anyone who thinks they don’t need to abide by social distancing guidelines: “This can happen to you.”

Chelsea Manning’s legal team says the former intelligence analyst tried to take her own life Wednesday, but was transported to a hospital where she is recovering.

Two families with lifelong secrets unearthed because of home DNA test kits are now dealing with the truth. Here’s what their stories tell us about the shock that can come from new ancestry technology, and how to deal with it.

Authorities say a Virginia girl’s dog stopped her from being abducted by biting a man who grabbed her.

An up-and-coming four-legged artist in Virginia has raised $4,000 for the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria. The precocious 6-year-old Staffordshire terrier sold nearly 20 pieces in his debut collection.

A neglected dog has made a stunning recovery after being brought to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Richmond, Virginia, this past April, TODAY.com reported. The dog, whom the SPCA renamed Lionheart, was surrendered by his owner — and it was immediately clear he needed care. “We realized what a terrible case of neglect it was,”...

Lee Asher is motoring cross-country in a battleship gray RV with seven friends. Six of them — Lillie, Bo-Bo, Cali, Stella, Molly and Butters — don’t drive or chip in for gasoline. But they always want to stop for a bite or bathroom break. That’s because they’re dogs, all rescued: a Saint Bernard, a chocolate lab, a golden retriever, a...