Updated: 11:42 AM Virginia State Police have responded to over 300 motor vehicle crashes statewide since midnight March 6 through 10:00 AM this morning.

Updated: 11:45 AM Crews with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) report roads are snow-covered and slick throughout the area. Heavy snow continues to fall across the district, reducing visibility and making travel hazardous.

Posted: 5:14 AM The federal government says its offices in the Washington, D.C., area will be closed Wednesday as the nation's capital braces for its first big snowfall of the winter.

Posted: 4:25 PM (AP) V-DOT says it has plenty in its snow-removal budget for the storm heading the state's way.

Updated: 3:39 PM (AP) Hairy crime leaves Virginia Beach man charged with stealing rare king baboon tarantulas.

Posted: 10:26 AM (AP) Authorities are investigating two more suspicious fires on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Posted: 3:37 PM (AP) A fabricated metal products company is establishing its first Virginia operation, bringing with it 120 jobs to Lynchburg.

Posted: 12:31 PM (AP) Virginia Tech to test alerts system at facilities across state on March 20

Posted: 3:50 PM Two more suspicious fires on Virginia's Eastern Shore are under investigation. Virginia State Police tell media outlets that the fires occurred Saturday in Accomack County.

Posted: 3:49 PM Former Washington & Lee University President John Delane Wilson has died. He was 81. The university said Sunday in a news release that Wilson died Saturday in Lexington.

Posted: 3:46 PM Amtrak's Lynchburg to Washington, D.C., route is popular and profitable. A new report says the route turned a profit of about $3 million in 2011.

Updated: 3:59 PM The president of the Student Government Association at Shenandoah University has been removed from office. The SGA House of Delegates' voting members recently voted to impeach and remove Nigel Huckle following hazing allegations.

Updated: 5:40 PM The Commonwealth of Virginia has officially sworn in its first openly gay judge. Tracy Thorne-Begland took the oath at Richmond City Hall on Friday. He's now the presiding judge at the city's general district court.

Posted: 3:54 PM Lady Luck's reign as the face of the Virginia Lottery is over. Lottery chief Paula Otto says Lady Luck has been replaced by a character known as the Game Guy.

Posted: 3:50 PM The Virginia Air National Guard's 203rd RED HORSE Squadron will conduct a wreath-laying ceremony on the 12th anniversary of the worst peacetime aviation disaster in National Guard history.

Posted: 3:48 PM Longwood University researchers have found apparently high levels of salmonella bacteria in some central Virginia streams.

Posted: 2:09 PM (AP) Lynchburg's chief prosecutor has decided not to seek a new death sentence for the man convicted of killing a couple in front of their young daughters.

Posted: 11:56 AM Va. to hold statewide tornado drill March 12, McDonnell encourages everyone to participate.

Posted: 10:47 AM (AP) Virginia's Medicaid program will receive more than $223,000 under a settlement that resolves allegations that a Texas-based company submitted false claims for an unapproved drug.

Posted: 11:56 AM (AP) State Supreme Court agrees to hear state appeal in Virginia Tech lawsuit.

Posted: 3:51 PM (AP) President Barack Obama addressed thousands of shipyard workers in Virginia who are worried about what the future may hold if Congress can't reach an agreement on a spending deal.

Posted: 2:45 PM (AP) Automatic US budget cuts would go deeper than the military in Virginia, to child care, elders

Posted: 2:11 PM (AP) 3 Richmond-area men, including ex basketball star, sentenced for killing student drug dealer

Posted: 12:02 PM Norfolk Southern to end regional railcar classifications at Roanoke yard, eliminate 140 jobs.

Posted: 10:20 AM (AP) State police investigate 2 weekend fires at vacant structures on Va.'s Eastern Shore