The state is asking the Virginia Supreme Court to set aside a jury's findings in favor of the families of two students who were slain in the April 2007 massacre on the Virginia Tech campus.

James Madison University has one confirmed case of the mumps that is being treated.

(AP) Search warrant: Rag from auto shop used to set last of 77 arsons on Eastern Shore of Va

(AP) Virginia's new tax refund card program is hitting a few bumps in its first year.

(AP) Number of Virginia workers paid at or below federal minimum wage declined to 6.8 pct in 2012

(AP) A Pennsylvania man charged in Virginia with throwing away completed voter registration forms no longer faces felony counts.

(AP) Liberty firearms policy loosened, permitted concealed guns allowed in all facilities but dorms

Police have arrested two people they say are responsible for dozens of arsons in the Virginia's Eastern Shore area.

(AP) Virginia State Police are investigating a crash on Interstate 85 in Brunswick County that left five people dead and closed all southbound lanes.

(AP) Virginia State Police have charged a Parksley woman in connection with the latest arson on the Eastern Shore.

Susan Tinker of Hampton was arrested this morning after she falsely reported a robbery at the Waffle House in Hampton, where she worked.

A chicken house fire has killed 37,000 chicks at a farm in Rockingham County.

Steel walls are being used to contain pollution hot spots in the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River and to protect waterfront property from contamination.

Virginia State Police say three people have been killed and more than 20 are injured following a 95-vehicle pileup on Interstate 77 near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

Richmond's Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has received a tourism award. A group of judges named it one of the "Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For."

The Army plans to immediately transfer more than half of the land at Fort Monroe to the state of Virginia. The military deactivated the post in 2011 and a national monument was created on portions of the property.

An in-home care provider has been sentenced to more than a year in jail for mistreating a 93-year-old woman with dementia.

Virginia's Piedmont region now has a coordinated regional police presence dedicated to cracking down on drug and other criminal activity.

Gas prices have fallen by an average of 3 cents per gallon in Virginia over the past week.

(AP) Virginia's jobless rate remained steady in February and is still below the national average.

(AP) Judge rejects appeal by Va. death row inmate convicted of killing 4 in Norfolk

(AP) Dominion Virginia Power says it's not asking state regulators to increase its base rates for its customers for at least two years.

(AP) The USS Winston S. Churchill has returned to its home port in Virginia.

(AP) Blue Ridge PBS to shut down transmitters in Marion, Norton after losing state funding

(AP) Virginia State Police will investigate bribery allegations involving Norfolk city employees.