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Most contributions to the program claimed on tax returns during the past six years have been from individuals with six-figure incomes or above.

Officials with Virginia’s Department of Agriculture warned the hemp products were untested and potentially unsafe.

In Terrence Richardson’s petition for release, his attorney presented what he said was new evidence.

Hundreds gathered downtown on Friday night following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs case.

“A certain group of my friends knew I was gay, but it was very much like, ‘You do not tell anyone,’" Jamie Lord told VPM News.

As a freshman at Nansemond River High School in Suffolk, Ashley Alston Heberling’s passion for field hockey was rivaled only by her love of tennis. So, she was heartbroken when she learned the school would soon upend her plans to play both sports in the upcoming school year.

More than 3,200 people in Virginia prisons are scheduled to go home early because of a new law that expands the state’s earned sentence credit program.

Chesterfield County Police were called to a residence along Weybridge Road at about 9:30 p.m. after reports of shots being fired, Watch Commander David Sumner told VPM News.

Defense attorneys said Wednesday that a former Virginia Tech football player feared for his life when he fatally beat a person he met online in April 2021.

The attorneys for Isimemen Etute asked Judge Mike Fleenor to disregard a Virginia law that bars the use of a person’s perceived gender or sexual orientation as a criminal defense.