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Memorial Day marks the start of the summer driving, and already drivers are limiting trips due to record gasoline prices that are expected to go even higher.

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Johnny Depp lost his libel suit in the U.K. in 2020 after a judge decided the case. Now in Virginia, a jury will make the verdict.

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Jill Biden and the U.S. surgeon general are empathizing with parents across the country who have been scrambling to find infant formula for their children.

Depp denied sending text messages to his former personal assistant that included graphic details about sex.

Ex-producer Morgan Tremaine will likely testify about a confidential source who provided a video to TMZ showing Depp yelling at Heard.

Aletha Gee Walton, 69, suffers from dementia, her family says. She was sitting on a tree stump when searchers located her. "God was with her the whole time," he sister says.

Older Americans were scammed out of $1.7 billion in 2021, according to the FBI.

A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press the Washington Commanders have bought land in Virginia for what could be a potential site of the NFL team’s next stadium.

Staff could not identify a cause of death for 173 puppies because the bodies had already begun decomposing, records show.

Depp normally drinks clear liquid during his court appearances, so it being yellow on Thursday was a bit unusual.

Virginia lawmaker says retailer should obtain parental consent before selling two "obscene" books to minors.

A police unit in Prince William County, Virginia is co-responding to emergency calls with mental health clinicians to reduce escalated encounters.

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Fred Miller purchased a property to host family gatherings, only to learn it was once a planation where his ancestors were enslaved.

The U.S. is facing its worst pilot shortage in recent memory, forcing airlines to cut flights just as travelers are returning after more than two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Top Fuel points leader Brittany Force broke both ends of the track record at Virginia Motorsports Park in qualifying Friday for the Virginia NHRA Nationals. In the NHRA’s first event at the track in three years, Force had a 3.710-second run at 335.82 mph. She has nine of the 10 fastest runs in Top Fuel history. “It cleared up and (crew chief David) Grubnic had a goal set and we hit that mark,” Force said.

The Republican governors are asking for federal law enforcement to take the lead in protecting the justices in the weeks and months ahead as protests continue.

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Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

Protesters have flocked to demonstrate outside the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett.

Domestic fares continued to surpass 2019 levels due to a rebound in demand and more expensive fuel this year.

Prices at the pump are at the highest on record.

Soon after Jim Medeiros bought his 143-acre (58-hectare) cattle and poultry farm in rural Virginia a decade ago, he and his wife were startled by the sounds of 20 hunting dogs barking and howling as they circled their house and chased their chickens. When Medeiros confronted a hunter nearby, the man told him he had permission to hunt on Medeiros’ property. In disbelief, Medeiros called the agency that enforces a state law allowing hunters to retrieve their hunting dogs from private property, even when the property owners object.

Target employees at a store in Virginia filed on Tuesday with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election.

A growing number of experts are making a business out of teaching people how to grow their own pot. Here's what to know to get started.

Prasidha Padmanabhan is leading a modern-day crusade to rewrite the history books in one of the country's largest school districts.

Boeing says it plans to move its corporate headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.

The Supreme Court’s apparent intention to abolish a nationwide right to abortion, spelled out in a draft opinion leaked this week, will not be the final chapter in the nation’s most pitched culture battle.

A former University of Virginia lacrosse player is liable for fatally beating his girlfriend in 2010 and must pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit, a jury found Monday. George Huguely V is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence in the killing of Yeardley Love after being convicted of second-degree murder during a 2012 criminal trial. The lawsuit sought to hold Huguely civilly liable in Love's death and asked the jury to award $29.5 million in compensatory damages, plus $1 million in punitive damages to her mother, Sharon Love, the administrator of her estate.

A manager for Johnny Depp said the movie was put on ice after Amber Heard's Washington Post op-ed describing herself as a domestic violence victim.

A 2016 letter from Amber Heard's lawyer was shown in court on Wednesday as evidence in Johnny Depp's ongoing defamation trial against his ex-wife.

Last year was a time of double-digit multiple offers and jaw-dropping escalations. But as low inventory and high demand drove prices up, they also curtailed sales. Only Virginia saw a big increase in homes sold.

Inez Foulk’s non-custodial mother is accused of taking the girl and driving to Virginia before she was caught, police say.

The NFL has said it engaged former SEC chair Mary Jo White "to review the most serious matters raised by the committee."

Spring lambs have arrived at Peterson Farm in Falmouth.

The Supreme Court has turned away a plea from parents to block a new admissions policy at a prestigious high school in northern Virginia that a lower court had found discriminates against Asian American students.

The former White House chief of staff has decried the inaccuracy of voter rolls because people moved and yet did not inform election officials himself.

A sought-after Virginia neighborhood that once held a church is now filled with affordable housing.

Two sailors were found dead at off-base locations on April 9 and 10. A third was found unresponsive on board and later died, CNN reported.

The five-bedroom home with a basement tenant and $25,000 worth of repairs is reportedly under contract within days of hitting the market.

Authorities say the children, who attended the same day care in Virginia, were hospitalized with symptoms of THC exposure.

"People cannot afford a home. That is the American dream — or rather was the American dream. We need to get back to that."

A jury has convicted a British national for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

A jury convicted a British national Thursday for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago, resulting in the deaths of four Americans, three of whom were beheaded. In convicting Elsheikh, the jury concluded that he was one of the notorious “Beatles,” Islamic State captors nicknamed for their accents and known for their cruelty — torturing and beating prisoners, forcing them to fight each other until they collapsed and even making them sing cruel song parodies. Surviving hostages testified that the Beatles delighted themselves rewriting “Hotel California” as “Hotel Osama” and making them sing the refrain “You will never leave.”

El Shafee Elsheikh is one of three British men accused in brutal ISIS hostage-taking scheme that led to the deaths of four Americans.

Three dozen House Democrats say Saudi Arabia is being a bad strategic partner.

Mark Meadows backed claims by Donald Trump that ballot fraud lead to his loss to President Joe Biden. Now Meadows is being probed for possible voter fraud.

The former White House chief of staff faces a probe over an allegation that he never resided at the address he put on his voter registration ahead of the 2020 election.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are facing off again in libel trial

The trial is expected to last for more than a month.

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Elon Musk and James Franco will take the stand at a celebrity trial that is being broadcast live.

Now 75, Penny Parrish wonders what will become of a dollhouse her dad built that is a replica of her childhood home in Bensenville.

Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for libel in 2019, and the case is going to trial in Fairfax County, Virginia.

"I'm just fed up with the racism around, especially at our academic institutions," Joel Mungo said. "It's time to take a stand."

Denny Hamlin ran down William Byron with five laps to go and ended the slowest start to a season of his career with a victory in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway.

A growing number of college baseball teams are moving away from the tradition of catchers using their fingers and hands for pitch signs.

Virginia state agencies responding to a severe snowstorm that stranded hundreds of motorists along Interstate 95 in January collectively lost what a report called “situational awareness” amid the growing gridlock.

COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the summer of 2020, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge.

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors.

Authorities say two crewmembers rescued from the midweek crash of a U.S. Navy aircraft in Eastern Shore waters near the Virginia-Maryland line remain hospitalized.

Dayton, Oklahoma, SMU and Texas A&M have earned top seeds in the National Invitation Tournament.

The problems the nursing industry is experiencing lately aren’t new issues, said Melissa, 41, who’s in Roanoke, Virginia.

Wake Forest meets Boston College in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament looking for another win on its NCAA Tournament resume.

Virginia lawmakers have ended for another year efforts to put basic limits on how they can spend money donated to their campaigns.

Christine always envisioned a career in nursing. It’s all she ever wanted, professionally.

Virginia lawmakers are advancing a measure intended to lure the Washington Commanders to the state by allowing the NFL team to forgo what could be $1 billion or more in future tax payments to help finance a potential new football stadium.

The Black men who drove horse-drawn carriages through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia were both everywhere and invisible during the Jim Crow era.

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hefty legislative agenda has been dealt a series of expected blows in the first half of the General Assembly session by the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Virginia's Department of Education is conducting a review designed to root out critical race theory in schools.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has apologized after mistaking one Black legislator for another in a text message.

The Richmond Fire Investigations Unit are working to determine the cause and origin of a fire that engulfed William Fox Elementary School in Richmond.

A state official says a deputy Virginia attorney general has resigned after The Washington Post raised questions about social media comments the newspaper reported she made about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and other matters.

Washington Commanders safety Deshazor Everett faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a petition from parents that sought to invalidate Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order prohibiting school systems from enforcing mask mandates in the classroom.

The Virginia Military Institute will change its student-run honor court to make it more fair to cadets as part of a response to a state-ordered investigation into racism and sexism.

A judge is holding off for now on deciding whether local school boards or Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin have the final say on whether students must wear masks in school to protect against COVID-19.

A group of about 130 former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employees and others who have worked directly with Andrew Wheeler wrote to the Virginia Senate over the weekend to urge lawmakers to approve the former EPA administrator’s nomination to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet.

Police say a Virginia man has been arrested for drunkenly crashing a car into Taylor Swift’s New York City apartment building and trying to gain entry.

Parts of 10 eastern U.S. states are under blizzard warnings as a powerful storm that could dump as much as 2 feet of snow on Boston begins churning up the coast.

A Virginia man who wore a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt at the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot has pleaded guilty to joining the mob of people who stormed the building.

A layer of ice and a blanket of snow has covered coastal areas stretching from South Carolina to Virginia.

Two Richmond residents living near the site where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice is blasting through parts of the U.S. Southeast.

Forecasts of snow and ice as far south as Georgia have put much of the Southeast on an emergency preparedness footing as shoppers strip store shelves of supplies and road crews treat highways ahead of an approaching weekend storm.

Forecasters' predictions of debilitating snow and ice as far south as Georgia have shoppers scouring store shelves for storm supplies and road crews trying to prevent a repeat of past wintertime debacles.

Outgoing Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has reversed more than 50 legal opinions issued by predecessors during the Jim Crow and Massive Resistance eras that justified segregation, interracial marriage bans and other racist laws.

With more bad weather looming, Virginia officials are seeking to reassure the public they are prepared as they reacted to harsh criticism of their response to a storm earlier this week that left hundreds of motorists stranded on Interstate 95.

Virginia officials are defending their response to the snowy gridlock that resulted on Interstate 95 after a winter storm dumped nearly 11 inches of snow.

A family that was stuck on Interstate 95 and other roads in Virginia by a snowstorm says they went more than 18 hours without eating or sleeping.

Three Democratic attorneys general are seeking to overturn the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and add it to the Constitution.

A winter storm packing heavy snow has closed government offices and schools in the nation's capital and surrounding suburbs.

States across the country are taking steps to try to deter the thefts of catalytic converters.

The enormous pedestal where the Robert E.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.