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Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law Wednesday offshore drilling legislation intended to realize his goal of making Virginia the East Coast's energy superpower.

Virginia's General Assembly became the first in the nation Wednesday to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement a national health care overhaul in individual states.

Prosecutors in West Virginia have dropped a misdemeanor charge that accused an FBI security guard of spying on girls as they tried on prom gowns at a Fairmont mall.

A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a Virginia death row inmate's bid for a new trial.

Senators are retreating somewhat on fattened court fees to help balance Virginia's recession-wracked budget, but delegates aren't impressed.

State lawmakers are clashing over a bill that would supersede new guidelines requiring Virginia 's saltwater anglers to register with the federal government.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli created quite a stir. We are not lawyers and have not been admitted to the Virginia bar, so we will not judge the legal merits of his letter informing the state's public colleges and universities that they cannot add sexual orientation and related categories to their non-discrimination policies without authorization ...

The Navy plans to honor emergency personnel and others who helped rescue 17 people aboard a helicopter that crashed in a remote area of West Virginia last month.

Forbes magazine says eight Virginia localities are among the country's wealthiest.

Campus activists across Virginia mobilized yesterday against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who has riled student groups with a letter advising public universities to retreat from their policies against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

For the foreseeable future, most Virginians will have to be content with being able to purchase only one handgun a month.

A rockabilly singer and a book collector are among eight people being honored by the Library of Virginia 's 2010 Women in History program.

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has suggested the state will not move against public colleges and universities that do not rescind anti-discrimination policies based on sexual orientation, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

The newly-elected Republican leadership of Virginia continues its rapid dismantling of the Commonwealth's human rights protections.

A complaint by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources was dismissed by the State Corporation Commission, giving the go-ahead to a development company to construct the state's first commercial wind farm.

Virginia lawmakers desperate for cash to balance the state budget are considering reimposing ironclad caps on the fees court-appointed attorneys can receive for representing indigent defendants.

Virginia Tech says it is keeping its non-discriminatory statement as it is, despite new advice from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to all state public colleges and universities.

Bills dealing with the death penalty, lending practices and the face of public education hang in the balance in the last six days of the 2010 General Assembly.

Bail has been raised to $2 million for two Virginia residents whose car crashed into another vehicle in New Jersey while allegedly eluding police, killing a man and leaving an officer shot and wounded.

Erik Estrada, who played a motorcycle cop on the 1970s TV show "ChiPs," appeared at the state Capitol today to urge funding of legislation to crack down on Internet predators.