The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is hoping to cash in on superstitious Virginians looking to avoid the number 13. The department says you can avoid that fate by renewing tags for two or even three years.

Prosecutors have dropped charges against a bus dispatcher stemming from a Virginia crash that killed four passengers.

Virginia authorities are investigating explosions at three homes in Stafford County and the city of Fredericksburg caused by homemade bombs.

The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is returning from its final deployment. The Navy says the USS Enterprise is scheduled to return to its home port in Norfolk on Sunday.

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is returning to Virginia as Election Day nears, making stops on Thursday in Roanoke, Doswell, and Virginia Beach

Virginia emergency officials are blaming two traffic-related deaths on superstorm Sandy. The Virginia Department of Emergency Management said Tuesday that the medical examiner's office had confirmed that two traffic fatalities were caused by the storm.

Virginia voters will decide Nov. 6 whether government limits on the taking of private property should be an amendment to the state Constitution.

Parts of Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore already are seeing effects of Hurricane Sandy, as officials urge residents in much of the state that time is running out to prepare for a storm that could stick around several days.

Amtrak says it is canceling service across the northeastern U.S. on Monday as Hurricane Sandy threatens to create a wet, windy mess in the region.

Virginia election officials are asking the attorney general's office to investigate the son of Democratic Rep. Jim Moran discussing a plan to cast fraudulent ballots, and the person who made the recording of the incident.

The Virginia State Board of Elections is advising local registrars to accommodate voters who ask to vote absentee because of the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy.

A federal appeals court is considering whether a lower court should hear a Virginia inmate's request for a sex change. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case Wednesday of Ophelia De'Lonta, who has been hospitalized in past self-castration attempts.

Virginia Marine Police are investigating the death of a Gloucester County man who drowned off Yorktown Beach.

A Civil War attraction in Richmond ha reached its $8 million fundraising goal ahead of schedule.

A Lynchburg petroleum company will pay a $43,613 fine for a crash that spilled thousands of gallons of fuel in Bedford County.

Virginia's jobless rate remained steady at 5.9 percent in September for the third consecutive month.

Officials say Sgt. Robert J. Billings, of Clarksville, Va., died Saturday of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.

A Virginia Beach man faces charges of pointing a gun at a school bus following a dispute over a rebel flag.

In less than two years, Virginia has eliminated the waiting list for a program that helps low-income residents obtain AIDS medication.

Henrico County police say the apparent drowning of a teenager in a hotel pool appears to be an accident.

The Coast Guard says a sailor in the annual Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race was killed after a boom on the vessel knocked the person overboard.

Military jets have intercepted two small planes that entered a temporary no-fly zone over Williamsburg.

A chapter in Virginia's civil rights history is being remembered with a historical marker dedicated to a pioneer for equal rights.

The U.S. Department of Energy is now overseeing a lonely landmark off the Virginia coast that for decades has guided ships into the Chesapeake Bay.

The state of Virginia is settling a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of a 6-year-old boy who died during treatment at a dental clinic in Richmond.