The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as “a possible victim of a crime."
A military veteran who stormed the U.S. Capitol with a loaded pistol, metal-plated body armor and a gas mask was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison, one of the longest among hundreds of Jan. 6 riot cases.
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — When Speaker Kevin McCarthy suggested recently he might stop the FBI from relocating its downtown headquarters to a new facility planned for the Washington suburbs, it was more than idle thinking...
A Virginia sheriff has been indicted on federal public corruption charges for allegedly handing out auxiliary deputy sheriff’s appointments in exchange for cash bribes and large donations to his reelection campaign.
People who have been disqualified from voting in Virginia because of their criminal records filed a lawsuit against Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state elections officials challenging the state's automatic disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions.
Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free.
The first-grade teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia has resigned from her position, school officials said Tuesday, more than two months after she sued the district for $40 million.
The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to using marijuana while possessing a firearm, which is illegal under U.S. law.
A Virginia man who told his wife — and a federal jury — that he had “fun” at the U.S. Capitol riotwas sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for attacking police as he stormed the building.
Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in panic, weep and clutch their children, authorities and witnesses said.
