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RICHMOND, Va.
Friday Va. lottery drawing
- These numbers were drawn Friday by the Virginia Lottery:
Environmentalists challenge power plant permits
- A coalition of environmental groups filed papers in two courts Friday challenging the state's approval of a $1.8 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Virginia.
Flea market raided in counterfeit items probe
- At least nine people have been arrested in a counterfeit merchandise investigation in the Richmond area.
VCU Public Safety Institute official leaves post
- The co-director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Public Safety Institute has stepped down after protesting the school's handling of an investigation into the improper awarding of a bachelor's degree to Richmond's former police chief.
Report: Slaves buried under university parking lot
- An investigation has confirmed that part of a burial ground for slaves and other blacks lies beneath a Virginia Commonwealth University parking lot.
AAA: Va. gas price falls below $4 a gallon
- Virginia motorists are getting some relief from high gas prices.
Patrols follow spike in Hampton Roads fatals
- The Virginia State Police will increase highway patrols for two days throughout Hampton Roads following a spike in traffic deaths.
Va. lottery Thursday drawing
- These numbers were drawn Thursday by the Virginia Lottery:
Virginia killer scheduled for lethal injection
- A Virginia inmate who challenged the state's method of executing prisoners by lethal injection prepared to die Thursday after a federal appeals court refused to give him more time to make his argument.
Wright promoted to state superintendent job
- Patricia I. Wright has been named Virginia's superintendent of public instruction.
Board to discuss allegations about degree probe
- Virginia Commonwealth University's Board of Visitors will discuss allegations that the school improperly conducted its investigation into the improper awarding of a bachelor's degree to Richmond's former police chief.
Mayor promises action on Internet abuse
- Mayor L. Douglas Wilder says misuse of city computers won't be tolerated.
Va. Tech to release some shooting records
- Virginia Tech has partly reversed a decision to keep secret records about the April 2007 campus shootings that left 33 people dead.