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Virginia's eighth-graders perform better in science than their peers nationwide, but only 40 percent have a solid grasp of the subject.

NASA's Langley Research Center will erect a pair of historical highway markers outside the center's front gate.

Two spills of partially treated drinking water from a water treatment plant will cost the city of Chesapeake more than $7,700 in environmental fines.

Louisa County is preparing to say goodbye to an elementary school that was damaged by last year's earthquake.

Virginia officials plan to release reports on post-conviction testing that excluded the DNA of 78 people convicted of crimes.

Authorities say a man upset by the price of a room at a luxury hotel in northern Virginia has been arrested after brandishing a gun.

Police say a Springfield man was abducted at gunpoint, forced to withdraw money from banks and then abandoned in the trunk of his car.

The drunken driving arrest that forced the head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign last year is headed to trial.

Virginia State Police say there are no apparent signs of foul play in the death of a man whose body was found at a rest stop off Interstate 66 in Manassas.

A project to gather the stories of Virginians who lived through desegregation of the state's public schools is coming to Richmond.

The drunken driving arrest that forced the head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign last year is headed to trial.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia is dedicating its new eagle flight pen.

Opponents of Virginia's new abortion clinic regulations are taking their case to the state Board of Health.

President Barack Obama's newly announced support for same-sex marriages adds an emotional new element with an uncertain effect into his re-election bid in Virginia, a battleground state he won in 2008 but where voters have consistently opposed it.

Thirteen residents of state-run centers for Virginians with intellectual disabilities can intervene in a court case that could lead to closure of most of the facilities, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The University of Virginia's chief financial officer is stepping down at the end of the year.

The Virginia Zoo is introducing its new tiny blue duiker antelope, Todd.

A nonprofit in Reston is in disbelief after they found three of their therapy horses had been attacked and required veterinary attention.

A year after tornadoes damaged parts of southwest Virginia, Gov. Bob McDonnell stopped by Friday to check on the recovery.

A federal jury began deliberations on Friday in the trial of a Somali man accused of being a pirate negotiator involved in an attack on a U.S. yacht in which all four Americans on board were eventually shot and killed.