Volunteers who turned out for an annual effort to keep the Chesapeake Bay clean found an old military stretcher, a soccer goal, a $50 bill and a light bulb covered with live oysters.

The Virginia Health Department has released its proposed permanent regulations governing abortion clinics.

Hampton officials are cleaning up debris in the city after a tornado tore through downtown.

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's office will host a training session for law enforcement officers in Newport News to target gangs.

The guided-missile frigate USS Carr has left Virginia on its final deployment.

Virginia is letting anglers fish without a license for free this weekend. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries are allowing the fishing to occur through Sunday.

A former Roanoke transit official has pleaded guilty to theft of government money.

Authorities say they've recovered the body of a teenager who went missing in a tributary of the James River.

The Blacksburg university has partnered with Northern Virginia-based X7 Systems Integration under a nearly $1 million contract to install a networked video security system.

A group that wants a ban on smoking on beaches along the Chesapeake Bay apparently will need permission from the state, not local authorities.

Augusta County authorities say a 10-year-old boy has died after the golf cart he was driving near his home overturned.

Virginia State Police say a truck driver has died after his tanker truck overturned and leaked diesel fuel onto U.S. Route 460 in Bedford County.

Virginia State Police say two people are dead and another injured after a crash involving two airplanes in Fauquier County.

About 2,000 people turned out for the Memorial Day ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond.

York County firefighters say a propane leak caused an explosion on a recreational vehicle. A couple and their two grandchildren were badly burned.

At 6 years old, Lori Anne Madison is the youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.

Radford fire officials say 10 workers escaped injury in an explosion and fire at an automobile parts factory.

More than half the crew members of a Norfolk-based container ship that was at the center of a piracy drama off Somalia in April 2009 are seeking damages totaling nearly $50 million.

Yorktown's Civil War history is being celebrated over the next three days with presentations on surveillance balloons, troop encampments and other demonstrations.

A violent felon who was accidently freed from a regional jail in Farmville is the focus of a manhunt.

The Virginia Department of Inland Fisheries is offering a chance for anglers to fish without a license.

Two female Army Reserve officers have sued the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Army, seeking the reversal of military policies banning women from serving in combat roles.

Police in Bedford County are looking for a man who crawled through a drive-thru window in an unsuccessful attempt to rob a fast-food restaurant.

A Chesapeake jury has found that The Virginian-Pilot committed libel against an assistant principal at a local high school.

A worker at a central Virginia paper mill has died after being crushed by a roll of paper.