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> Votes of Virginians for Feb. 5
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:24:56 GMT

Robert J. Wittman , E. Scott Rigell , Robert C. Scott , J. Randy Forbes , Robert Hurt , Robert W. Goodlatte , Eric I. Cantor , James P. Moran , H. Morgan Griffith , Frank R. Wolf , Gerald E. Connolly .

Phase two of the repair of Jane Pendleton Wootton's home, a historic Louisa house that's been stabilized since the quake.

A Mifflintown man died when the tractor-trailer he was driving careened off Interstate 81 in Botetourt County, Va., about 2 a.m. Thursday, spilling a toxic chemical that displaced nearby residents and closed the highway for more than 12 hours.

When a former co-worker crept into her home and said "I've just come to kill you," a Herndon woman got one.

Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier - Bristol Virginia Mayor Ed Harlow, right, and Jeff Sadler, Virginia Main Street Program Director unveil the new signage during a press conference Friday.

Virginia Republicans have aggressively pursued a conservative agenda since taking over all of state government, steamrolling Democrats along the way.

New nationwide statistics show the unemployment rate is the lowest it has been since February 2009.

Virginia would halt taxpayer-funded abortions for low-income women in cases where the fetus is severely physically deformed or mentally deficient under Republican-backed legislation passed Friday by state lawmakers.

This morning at 9:12 a.m. I got a call from my mother that my father needed to be admitted to Mountainside Hospital immediately.

This week 150 years ago in the war, Union Brigadier Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside leads an amphibious assault in the North Carolina coastal sounds with thousands of soldiers and sailors and more than 60 ships.