Virginia

A California judge granted a temporary restraining order to Apple CEO Tim Cook after the company said a Virginia woman sent him hundreds of sometimes threatening messages and appeared at his condo last year, court documents show.

The top staff investigator for the House Jan. 6 panel was fired from his position at the University of Virginia by the state’s new GOP attorney general.

Amelia Ruffner King, 42, was charged with making an oral threat while on school property during a Page County school board meeting, police said.

A Virginia woman who vanished last week from the convenience store where she works remains missing even as authorities announced the arrest of a man charged with abducting her.

Glenn Youngkin was inaugurated as Virginia’s governor and promised to change policies on COVID-19, education, taxes, the economy and criminal justice.

Virginia’s attorney general says police in Virginia Beach used forged documents linking people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess.

A Connecticut family is thankful to be home after a traffic nightmare on I-95 in Virginia. They were among the trapped cars on the icy and snowy highway. Some were stuck on a 50-mile stretch for more than 24 hours. “It was crazy. I’ve never been through anything like that,” said Courtney Patenaude of Southington. Their trip home to Connecticut…

Drivers have been stranded for more than a day along a stretch of Interstate 95 in Virginia after multiple trucks crashed during a snowstorm on Monday, blocking traffic.

Virginia’s attorney general says a small town’s police department has operated in a way that led to discrimination against African Americans and violated their constitutional rights.

On Tuesday, experts in Virginia pulled books, money and other artifacts from the box found in the pedestal of a Robert E. Lee monument.

Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital Tuesday pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin have been found in a time capsule hidden beneath a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E

The information technology agency that serves Virginia’s legislature has been hit by a ransomware attack that has substantially affected its operations.

The move comes about a month before the Ralph Northam leaves office and Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, who has expressed less enthusiasm about the statue’s removal, is sworn in.

A Virginia man is fighting to hang on to $9,000 in unemployment benefits that the state gave him when his compressor plant closed in 2018

The term critical race theory has a different meaning now from when it was initially taught by legal scholars in the ’70s and ’80s. States have passed laws banning teaching the concept, which originated in law journals, and recent political campaigns have used it as a wedge issue, leaving teachers scared that any race-related lesson will break the law. Insider...

Several wealthy donors have signaled they are done fundraising for and contributing to the Democratic National Committee.

Tangier Island, home to a Virginia fishing town and about 400 people, could be saturated by rising seas and convert to uninhabitable wetlands by 2051.

The focus now shifts to the even more consequential midterm election season next year, when control of Congress and dozens more governorships will be decided.