Associated Press
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A Virginia judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on charges against a man accused of using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a 2017 gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville. -
A Virginia judge has signed off on a prosecutor's request to withdraw charges against five more people in connection with the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno, a young man who was pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes while being admitted to a state psychiatric hospital. -
A teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can press forward with her $40 million against a school system over claims of negligence by school administrators, a judge ruled Friday. -
New reporting says preliminary findings from a federal investigation found that Liberty University failed to warn its Virginia campus community about safety threats. That's including from individuals accused of sexual violence. -
The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of felony child neglect, seven months after her son used her handgun to critically wound the educator in a classroom full of students. -
Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board is set to vote today on whether to remove the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative – or RGGI. -
Authorities in Richmond, Virginia say seven people were shot after gunfire rang out near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown following a high school graduation ceremony. -
A top official in Virginia's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says an autopsy determined the cause of death for Irvo Otieno was “positional and mechanical asphyxia with restraints." -
Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters in Virginia following the biggest round of layoffs in the company’s history and shifting landscape of remote work. -
A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. is being moved into Colonial Williamsburg.
