Governor Bob McDonnell has signed into law 13 pieces of legislation to support and protect victims of crime, specifically human trafficking and domestic violence victims.

A man arrested for allegedly crashing a school bus while he was high on bath salts has escaped from Western State Hospital.

A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments in a Virginia public high school sent the case into mediation Monday.

Twitter plans to turn over the records of four accounts sought by Norfolk police seeking information on the assault of two newspaper reporters last month.

The owner of a Martinsville group home for adults has been found guilty of charges stemming from a resident's February 2011 death.

The state will pay 73 former Virginia Western Community College nursing students a total $2.4 million to settle a fraud lawsuit.

Dominion Virginia Power is presenting its long-range generation plans to regulators. The company is scheduled to outline its "integrated resource plan" on Tuesday.

Wintergreen Resort officials are considering several options to improve the resort's financial security, including selling all or part of the property.

Virginia State Police say two West Virginia residents have died after their motorcycle being pursued by a trooper struck a minivan in northern Virginia.

Old Dominion University is being sued by a professor who claims she was denied tenure because she is white.

A Virginia man has been charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama.

Virginia State Police Monday announced the release of the yearly report on on local and statewide crime figures. They say homicide and other violent crimes in the state are declining. But drug offenses are increasing.

An Abingdon woman and her boyfriend face second-degree murder charges in the death of the woman's 2-year-old daughter.

Free-speech groups and a southwest Virginia school division are squaring off over a lawsuit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments in a public high school.

Nearly 230 years after Thomas Jefferson designed the Virginia Capitol, a statue of him is finally on permanent display in the landmark.

A Chesterfield County woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the suffocation of her infant daughter will spend four years in prison.

The suspect in a Southside Virginia shooting incident that preceded a deadly car wreck has turned himself in to authorities.

New Virginia specialty license plates with a Blue Ridge Parkway theme are being distributed to motorists. The plates cost $25.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is asking the Virginia Supreme Court to exonerate a James City County man wrongfully convicted of rape in 1978.

The federal government says Sentara Norfolk General Hospital has agreed to pay a $19,920 penalty to settle allegations that it violated hazardous waste regulations.

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has settled its lawsuit against a Norfolk company accused of improperly towing and selling military service members' cars while they were deployed.

Three former prison inmates at a federal prison in southwest Virginia have been charged with trying to kill a correctional officer.

Virginia tourism officials are hoping to draw 1 million visitors to the state's website in May, and they're giving away bigger prizes as they get closer to that goal.

A new report says the majority of younger Virginia physicians are women for the first time in the state's history. The report says 53 percent of Virginia physicians under the age of 35 are women.

A Virginia Beach police officer will be sentenced in July on sex charges involving a teenage girl. He has been on suspension without pay since he was arrested in December.