SunCoke Energy Inc. is idling a southwestern Virginia coal mine and laying off 90 workers.

The Virginia Fire Marshal's Office is looking into the cause of a fire that killed 1,500 chickens on a Suffolk poultry farm.

A film that looks behind the Virginia-made scenes of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" is making its debut in Richmond.

(AP) Looming US defense budget cuts lead to uncertainty for deploying members of military

(AP) The Virginia Lottery says someone bought a winning $217 million Powerball ticket at Richmond International Airport.

(AP) Henrico County police say a second-grader brandished a loaded handgun on a school bus bound for a local elementary school.

Authorities are investigating two arson fires in two days on Virginia's Eastern Shore. More than 40 arsons have been reported in Accomack County since Nov. 13, 2012.

Frontier Airlines is discontinuing its service from Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport to Orlando, Fla., in April.

Letters written by three brothers to their mother while serving overseas during World War II are part of a new exhibit at the Virginia War Memorial.

Another arson fire on Virginia's Eastern Shore is under investigation. Virginia State Police say the latest fire damaged an airplane hangar in Olney on Friday night.

State Secretary of Agriculture Todd Haymore says planting more grapes will enable Virginia vintners to keep up with a steadily increasing demand for wine.

(AP) The sponsor of legislation that would have allowed uranium mining in Virginia has withdrawn his bill amid almost certain defeat in a Senate committee.

According to a new report, one in three Virginians do not have savings to fall back on in the event of a job loss, health crisis or other income-depleting emergency.

(AP) State figures show firearm-related homicides and injuries are declining in Virginia.

Legislative Republicans in Virginia are pushing a raft of election and voting reforms that, as a whole, could substantially boost the party's prospects in presidential, statewide and legislative elections.

A College of William & Mary graduate has given $10 million to the school to support its freshman seminars. The gift from the Hunter Smith Family Foundation establishes the Hunter J. Smith Endowment for Freshman Seminars.

A new report says the aging General Assembly Building on Capitol Square has asbestos in one tower and multiple fire and safety code issues.

Three Virginia Supreme Court justices will hear appeals next month in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings.

Former Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry L. Carrico has died. He was 96.

Virginia State Police were scrambling at the height of a storm that coated interstates and city streets across the commonwealth with a slick covering of snow.

The USS Gerald R. Ford is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in 2015. On Saturday, civilian shipbuilders in Newport News placed the aircraft carrier's island onto the ship's flight deck.

A Virginia State Police trooper is hospitalized after being run down by a car in Pulaski County.

(AP) Bill prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation passes Va Senate.

(AP) A Virginia Senate committee has killed legislation to close Virginia's so-called "gun show loophole."

(AP) Survey shows wage gap between how much Virginia men and women earn improved in 2011.