First lady makes surprise shopping trip to Target
VIDEO - Attention Target shoppers: You could have been standing in line with Michelle Obama...
New Va. database helps trace slave descendants
VIDEO - Letters, bonds, wills and court letters are held at the Virginia Historical Society. The documents are not open to the public...
Poll: Obama disapproval soars to 54 percent in Va
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The results mirror other polls that show a continuing slide in the president's popularity in a slow, troubled economy...
Obama to take jobs plan on the road
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama will take his jobs plan on the road next Friday in a visit to Richmond, Va...
Virginia city weighs Confederate flag-flying limit
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - About 100 people rallied Thursday evening in opposition to a proposal to limit the flying of the Confederate flag in the rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried...
Quake rocks Washington area, felt on East Coast
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake was half a mile deep and centered near Louisa, Va., about 40 miles northwest of Richmond...
Obama and family ride bikes on Martha's Vineyard
WEST TISBURY, Mass. (AP) - The four were biking in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, a 5,100-acre preserve where the first family also went cycling during their previous two summers...
Va. executes man for raping, killing elderly woman
JARRATT, Va. (AP) - Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m. Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center...
VA Beach homicide is first since '09, residents question safety
theGRIO REPORT - While the Hampton Roads police say crime in the area is down, the murder of Codaro Simpkins, 22, has many residents on edge...
Southern swamp holds clues about runaway slaves
THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP (AP) - This fall, a permanent exhibition will open about people escaping slavery before the Civil War that didn't always run to the north...
