Updated: 3:07 PM 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.
Posted: 3:23 PM The Virginia Health Department has released its proposed permanent regulations governing abortion clinics.
Posted: 3:13 PM Hampton officials are cleaning up debris in the city after a tornado tore through downtown.
Posted: 3:02 PM Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's office will host a training session for law enforcement officers in Newport News to target gangs.
Updated: 3:18 PM The guided-missile frigate USS Carr has left Virginia on its final deployment.
Posted: 2:56 PM 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.
Posted: 2:54 PM A former Roanoke transit official has pleaded guilty to theft of government money.
Posted: 1:14 PM Authorities say they've recovered the body of a teenager who went missing in a tributary of the James River.
Posted: 11:15 AM 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.
Posted: 11:11 AM A group that wants a ban on smoking on beaches along the Chesapeake Bay apparently will need permission from the state, not local authorities.
Updated: 11:12 AM Augusta County authorities say a 10-year-old boy has died after the golf cart he was driving near his home overturned.
Posted: 10:16 AM 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.
Updated: 11:24 AM Virginia State Police say two people are dead and another injured after a crash involving two airplanes in Fauquier County.
Updated: 10:57 AM About 2,000 people turned out for the Memorial Day ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond.
Posted: 12:25 PM York County firefighters say a propane leak caused an explosion on a recreational vehicle. A couple and their two grandchildren were badly burned.
Posted: 11:42 AM At 6 years old, Lori Anne Madison is the youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
Posted: 10:21 AM Radford fire officials say 10 workers escaped injury in an explosion and fire at an automobile parts factory.
Posted: 12:33 PM 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.
Posted: 12:30 PM Yorktown's Civil War history is being celebrated over the next three days with presentations on surveillance balloons, troop encampments and other demonstrations.
Updated: 4:01 PM A violent felon who was accidently freed from a regional jail in Farmville is the focus of a manhunt.
Posted: 12:14 PM The Virginia Department of Inland Fisheries is offering a chance for anglers to fish without a license.
Posted: 12:11 PM 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.
Posted: 11:14 AM 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.
Updated: 12:12 PM A Chesapeake jury has found that The Virginian-Pilot committed libel against an assistant principal at a local high school.
Updated: 11:03 AM A worker at a central Virginia paper mill has died after being crushed by a roll of paper.
