A Brazilian au pair is testifying against her former employer and lover in a double homicide case that she says was part of an elaborate scheme to get rid of the man’s wife.
A Virginia man has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon.
The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school.
A grand jury has declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Duke's overtime win against No. 16 Virginia in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game attracted its share of curious onlookers, given the league's uncertain footing for College Football Playoff bids.
Alabama is forcing the group that will set the College Football Playoff bracket to ask: Should a 12-team tournament include a team with three losses.
The man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack confessed to the act in interviews with investigators.
The Justice Department has failed to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump.
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
President Donald Trump has announced plans to reconstruct Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.
The final regular season week of college football has set the stage for conference championships.
Virginia State Police say a high school football coach who disappeared days ago before his undefeated team’s playoff game is being sought on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material and using a computer to solicit a minor.
Texans defensive tackle Tim Settle Jr. gives back with Thanksgiving event at Radack Community Center
A Virginia jury has awarded $10 million to a former teacher in a lawsuit that accused an administrator of ignoring warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun before the teacher was shot.
President Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Tuesday’s elections, but many voters in key races made their choice in opposition to him or considered him to be irrelevant, according to the AP Voter Poll.
Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.
Ohio State received top billing in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, followed by Indiana, Texas A&M and Alabama.
Democrats are dominating the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House.
Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President Donald Trump and candidates loyal to him.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back against the Trump administration's investigation of cases that she brought against the president and National Rifle Association.
A Republican-led panel in Ohio has adopted new U.S. House districts, potentially boosting the GOP's chances of gaining two seats in next year's elections.
Trial has begun in a $40 million lawsuit accusing a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school of ignoring multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun hours before he shot his teacher.
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, says that she doesn't oppose a push by the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw congressional districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun has called a special session and directed state lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts.
The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.
Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in the final stretch of their statewide campaigns for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.
Barack Obama has endorsed Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics on the government shutdown could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year.
President Donald Trump is marking the Navy's 250th anniversary by joining a celebration at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has been widely condemned for text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”.
Two Delta Air Lines regional jets collided on the ground at LaGuardia Airport in New York, injuring a flight attendant, damaging a cockpit and tearing off part of a wing.
President Donald Trump is proposing using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces.
Oregon has moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, while Mississippi has its highest ranking since 2015.
It has been a wild weekend for AP Top 25 college football teams, with big changes expected in the rankings.
When Tommy Casetellanos’s last-ditch heave into the corner of the end zone was intercepted, his intended receiver, Squirrel White, lay on the turf.
Chandler Morris scored on a 4-yard run in the second overtime and Virginia beat No. 8 Florida State 46-38 on Friday night for its first home victory over a Top 10 team since also beating the Seminoles in 2005.
Officials say no injuries were reported after a commercial regional jet overshot the designated touch down zone at a Virginia airport amid heavy rain, but was stopped in a safety area at the end of the runway.
A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges is resigning under pressure from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Lawmakers have summoned Boar's Head deli meat officials to face a federal food safety committee.
An appeals court has heard oral arguments from a U.S. military contractor ordered to pay $42 million for contributing to the torture and mistreatment of three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago.
Voters in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington will choose a replacement Tuesday for the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who died in May after battling cancer.
The publisher of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl," has finalized a draft with her family after they raised concerns.
Federal inspectors will assume direct oversight of a Boar's Head deli meat plant when it reopens after an deadly listeria outbreak.
A judge has ordered that eight university board members tapped by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin should be removed from their posts.
The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories for the southeastern United States.
The small town of Bellville came together to honor the life of 8-year-old Virginia Hollis, who tragically died in the recent Hill Country floods.
The Trump administration on Thursday opened a civil rights investigation into the hiring practices at George Mason University, expanding a national campaign against diversity policies to Virginia’s largest public university.
Democrats and Republicans in northern Virginia have chosen candidates who will vie to replace the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.
The United States’ most advanced aircraft carrier has left its base in Virginia for a regularly scheduled deployment that could put it near Israel.
Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children.
Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting.
A 21-year-old Navy sailor, Angelina Resendiz from Texas, was found dead in a wooded area in Norfolk, Virginia, after disappearing from her barracks.
From Arlington National Cemetery outside the nation's capital to the American burial ground in Normandy, France, presidents customarily commemorate Memorial Day on hallowed ground.
A lot of American adults — about 3 in 10 — make use of astrology, tarot cards or fortune tellers at least once a year.
A lack of oxygen that incapacitated the pilot and three passengers is likely what caused a private jet to become unresponsive before flying over the nation’s capital and prompting the military to scramble fighter jets in 2023.
Congressman Gerry Connolly of Virginia is stepping down as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee and won’t be seeking reelection next year.
Florida State has canceled all home athletic events through the weekend after an on-campus shooting Thursday left two dead and at least six others injured.
The Justice Department has moved to drop a criminal case against the alleged East Coast leader of the MS-13 gang less than a month after he was charged, saying they plan to deport him instead.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the alleged leader of the MS-13 street gang on the East Coast has been arrested in Virginia.
Norfolk State coach Robert Jones has a monster chip on his shoulder entering his team’s first-round NCAA Tournament game against No. 1 seed Florida.
An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January.
A judge finds that Virginia law does not consider frozen embryos to be property that can be divided up in a partition lawsuit.
The Supreme Court has found that people who score early court wins in civil rights cases won’t necessarily be able to recover their legal fees.
Snowy roads led to hundreds of crashes throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including a series of crashes on an interstate highway involving more than 50 vehicles.
Freshman star Cooper Flagg had 17 points and 14 rebounds, notching his seventh double-double of the season before halftime, as No. 3 Duke cruised past Virginia 80-62.
A snowstorm has blown into the U.S. mid-Atlantic states, causing dozens of accidents on icy roads, prompting school closures and stoking worries about possible power outages.
Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from wreckage of last week’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport.
The NCAA has settled the lawsuit with the attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia and other states over its rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation for recruits.
Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and the nation’s capital say they have paused gender-affirming care for young people as they evaluate President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at cutting federal support for such care.
President Joe Biden’s declaration the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” likely only sets up more debates for Congress and the courts.
Virginia’s three special elections this week garnered national attention as Democrats protected their slim statehouse majority by winning two left-leaning districts.
An area stretching from Texas to Tennessee is bracing for an expected snowstorm even as some other parts of the U.S. hit by the plunging polar vortex this week are beginning to shake off its icy effects.
A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast on Monday, prompting schools and government offices in several states to close.
Most of the U.S. holds its major primary and general elections in even-numbered years, but there are a handful of places where competitive congressional, state and local-level contests will be happening in 2025.