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Virginia Senator Thomas K. Norment, Jr. photographed during a Senate Committee for Courts of Justice hearing on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 in Richmond, VA

Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurs

August 8, 2019 at 9:49 a.m.

A Virginia Military Institute yearbook overseen by future state Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. “Tommy” Norment in 1968 features a host of racist photos and slurs, including blackface. The revelation...

Many lawmakers are calling for the resignation of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, pictured during a news conference Nov. 13, 2018, in Arlington.

Ralph Northam photo controversy: Could he be impeached? What if he resigns?

August 9, 2019 at 2:13 a.m.

With many lawmakers calling for the resignation of Gov. Ralph Northam, here are answers to a few common questions. Could Gov. Northam be impeached and removed from office? Virginia's Constitution...

Oral arguments were heard before a panel of three Federal judges in court Wednesday morning January 27, 2016 in Richmond in the appeal as a part the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Gavin Grimm, a junior at Gloucester High School. Grimm's attorneys with the ACLU are asking the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to overrule a Norfolk federal judge in this case. Here, Gavin Grimm speaks with ACLU Va. Dir. Claire Guthrie Gastanaga.

Appeals court rules in favor of Gloucester teenager in bathroom dispute

August 7, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

A Virginia federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling rejecting a transgender Gloucester High School student's claim he had been discriminated against. A three judge panel of the 4th...

Virginia Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian J. Moran, right, listens as Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, left, proposes making significant changes to a bill that sought to allow the state to force condemned inmates to die in the electric chair when lethal injection drugs aren't available, in Richmond, Va., Monday, April 11, 2016. The Democratic governor's amendment to the bill would give the state to power to compound lethal injection drugs needed for executions. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT ORG XMIT: VARIT101

McAuliffe: Keep drugs secret or death penalty ends in Virginia

July 31, 2019 at 8:57 a.m.

RICHMOND — Horror stories about the electric chair led Gov. Terry McAuliffe to offer a choice to the General Assembly: go along with a proposal he says will make it...

State Sen. Richard Saslaw proposes a bill to keep details about lethal injection drugs secret. Critics say it would keep all information about executions out of public view.

Bill proposes secrecy on Virginia executions

August 5, 2019 at 9:43 p.m.

The state's prisons and one of the most powerful politicians in the state Senate are arguing for a bill that critics say could keep any information about executions secret. The...

Gloucester student challenges new transgender policy

August 27, 2019 at 4:44 p.m.

The Gloucester High School sophomore whose request to use boys' bathrooms led to a policy limiting the facilities available to transgender students is challenging the restriction with a federal civil...

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2016, after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the corruption case against McDonnell. The Supreme Court seems likely to overturn the conviction of McDonnell on political corruption charges and place new limits on the reach of federal bribery laws.

Jury’s quick verdict in McDonnell case a message in itself

July 31, 2019 at 9:59 a.m.

RICHMOND — The guilty verdicts for Bob and Maureen McDonnell came faster and more decisively than usual in public corruption cases, where juries routinely deadlock on least some counts —...

Politics could be issue in McDonnell jury deliberations

July 31, 2019 at 11:53 a.m.

RICHMOND — When word leaked of a federal investigation into then Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, in the midst of hot election year, there was plenty of grumbling...

McDonnell trial: Jury instructions can affect the outcome

July 27, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

In a way, what Judge James Spencer is going to ask jurors in the trial of Bob and Maureen McDonnell to do will be to read the minds of the...

An uneasy mix of family and politics in McDonnell’s administration

July 31, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

It was a clip that could make even a political opponent smile: candidate Bob McDonnell strolling down a sun-dappled sidewalk in the Northern Virginia suburb where he grew up as...

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