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  • Denny Hamlin hoping for early recovery

    If it was up to him, Denny Hamlin's fractured vertebra in his lower back would not cause him to miss any races.


  • Chris Brown

    Chris Brown: Singer did community service at his old daycare

    Chris Brown has logged more than 1,400 hours of community service for the 2009 beating of former girlfriend Rihanna, basically completing his sentence. The Associated Press has learned one-third of those hours were recorded at a rural Virginia daycare center where the singer spent time as a child and his mother once served as director.


  • AP Exclusive: Brown did service at his old daycare

    Chris Brown has logged more than 1,400 hours of community service for the 2009 beating of former girlfriend Rihanna, basically completing his sentence. The Associated Press has learned one-third of those hours were recorded at a rural Virginia daycare center where the singer spent time as a child and his mother once served as director.


  • Court: NY can't scare smokers with gruesome images

    The city cannot try to scare smokers by requiring grotesque images of diseased lungs and decaying teeth at stores that sell cigarettes because the federal government gets to decide how to warn people about the dangers of smoking tobacco, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
Retired Army Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II veteran and one of the nation's oldest Medal of Honor winners, raises the American flag on a 21-foot flagpole daily at sunrise and retires it at sunset in front of his suburban Richmond home - much to the chagrin of his local homeowners association.

    EDITORIAL: The evils of 'Little Brother'

    It's not always true that the form of government closest to the people is best. In some cases, it can be the worst. Unchecked by sufficient legal restraints, private homeowners associations (HOAs) have a reputation for going too far when it comes to upholding unnecessary and intrusive community rules.


  • GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich addresses a Virginia party fundraiser Thursday in Henrico. The former House speaker submitted 11,050 ballot-access signatures. (Associated Press)

    GOP: Gingrich, Perry won't be on Va. ballot

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry failed to garner enough signatures to meet Virginia's stringent requirements to appear on the state's GOP primary ballot, leaving former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul as the only Republican candidates to qualify in the crucial swing state.


  • Atlantic 10 preview

    Atlantic 10


  • "For me, I'm going to be doing the same things I did the last two years I did the first two, which is talking about jobs, economic development, government reform, energy, transportation, higher ed, K-12 - that'll be my focus." - Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell

    Democrats hear stirrings from a 'dead' Old Virginny

    On Tuesday, Virginia Republicans have the opportunity to regain unfettered control in Richmond for the first time in a decade — and only the second time since the Civil War.


  • Virginia Senate caucus collects $2.1M in 3rd quarter

    The Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus collected $2.1 million in the third quarter of the year as the party tries to fend off hard-charging GOP candidates to hold onto its last bastion of power in Richmond, according to campaign finance figures released Monday.


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