Two people are dead and a section of U.S. 460 is closed following a fiery five-vehicle accident in Prince George County.

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, former Nelson County Deputy Joshua Hatter was sentenced by Nelson County Circuit Court Judge J. Michael Gamble.

The presidential ground game has gone high tech, marrying old-school organizing work with innovative digital tools.

With temperatures soaring to close to 100 degrees in Virginia Thursday as an oppressive heat wave smothers the east coast, AAA Mid-Atlantic issued a heat advisory to motorists regarding the threat that extreme temperatures pose on motor vehicles.

NASA has successfully launched a suborbital sounding rocket carrying educational experiments from its facility on Wallops Island.

An inmate who escaped from the Chesapeake Correctional Center is back in custody after spending more than a week on the run.

A gas leak on Germanna Highway has forced Culpeper police and public works crews to detour traffic off Germanna Highway (Route 3) at its intersection with McDevitt Drive and closer to town at Germanna Highway Orange Road (Route 15).

A Roanoke-based public television station is cutting three jobs due to a loss of state funding.

An Alexandria woman will spend more than a year in prison for her role in a scheme involving Coast Guard contracts.

Four state police agencies spent Friday, June 15, 2012, through Sunday, June 17, 2012, enforcing “Operation Border to Border” along approximately 400 miles of U.S. Route 15 in an effort to prevent traffic crashes along the heavily-traveled corridor.

The chairman and CEO of meat producer Bar-S Foods Co. is giving $12 million to help complete exhibits about Marines who served since Vietnam at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in northern Virginia.

After years of planning and controversy, construction crews finally broke ground this morning on the new Orange County Wal-Mart.

Thirty protesters arrested at the state Capitol in March have accepted an agreement with prosecutors that would allow them to avoid jail.

Seven people have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine and other drugs in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee.

A Virginia Beach man was sentenced to 14 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling unregistered machine guns to federal agents.

Virginia's top legislative budget writing and oversight panel is questioning Gov. Bob McDonnell's administration for cutting a $6.5 million deal behind its back with the Washington Redskins.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is preparing to break ground for a new Supercenter in Orange County that's expected to create about 300 jobs.

A 12-year-old Washington County boy who was shot while hunting groundhogs has died.

The State Corporation Commission is seeking public comment on Dominion Virginia Power's solar-power incentive program.

A state panel that is amid a wide-ranging examination of the prospect of uranium mining in Virginia is headed to the Southside county where a proposal to mine one of the world's largest deposits of the radioactive ore has ignited a fierce environmental debate.

Va. slave trail panel welcoming African visitor

The Coast Guard says it is investigating the death of a Virginia Beach man who was medevaced from a commercial diving ship about 10 miles off the Virginia coast.

Potential vice presidential picks - among them New Jersey's Chris Christie, Louisiana's Bobby Jindal and Virginia's Bob McDonnell - paid visits to the C-PAC conference in Chicago, touting their accomplishments.

After nearly a month on the run, a white supremacist convicted of threats and intimidation is back in U.S. custody. Officials say William White of Roanoke was arrested Friday afternoon by U.S. and Mexican authorities in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen.

A New York man will spend nine years in prison for his role in a contraband cigarette ring in Virginia. Salah Morshed also must pay more than $17 million in restitution to Virginia and New York.