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Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday appealed a federal judge's refusal to add him and three other candidates to Virginia's Republican presidential primary ballot.
Three other Republican presidential hopefuls have joined Texas Gov. Rick Perry's lawsuit challenging Virginia's ballot access law.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out the conviction of a South Carolina man who has spent most of the last 29 years on death row, ruling his trial attorneys failed to challenge forensic evidence that could have exonerated him in the slaying of a 75-year-old widow.
The Virginia Supreme Court has refused to throw out the incest conviction of a former Martin Luther King Jr. confidant who died while his appeal was pending.
A Tennessee man left profanity-laden voicemail messages at the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, using an anti-Semitic slur and threatening the Virginia congressman's family, federal authorities said Thursday.
The FBI says a Tennessee man has been charged with threatening the family of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.
After hearing tearful testimony from several people whose life savings were stolen, a federal judge sentenced a former Texas businessman to 60 years in prison Wednesday for his role in a $100 million life insurance scam that claimed more than 800 victims in three dozen states and Canada.
A federal appeals court in Virginia has dismissed two lawsuits by former Iraqi detainees who claimed they were tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison.
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an insurance company in a case that legal experts say is the first in the nation on whether insurers may be liable for claims arising from global warming.
The Virginia Supreme Court has refused to exonerate a former Navy SEAL trainee in the abduction and murder of a woman he met at a Virginia Beach nightclub in 1995.
The incest conviction of a former top adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. should be tossed out because he died while his appeal was pending, his lawyer told the Virginia Supreme Court on Monday.
The federal health care overhaul survived two lawsuits dismissed Thursday on technicalities, leaving President Barack Obama's signature initiative headed toward a final resolution in the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year.
A federal judge has granted a company title to fine china, ship fittings and other artifacts it recovered from the Titanic during a half-dozen perilous salvage expeditions to the famed shipwreck.
Virginia and Florida are suing the Bank of New York Mellon over the institution's handling of both states' pension funds.
A judge said Wednesday that he will rule in about two weeks on whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a college student who was arrested after stripping to his running shorts at a Richmond International Airport checkpoint to protest security procedures.
An ex-sailor whose conviction for 1997 rape and murder of a woman was overturned will not face another trial, an encouraging development for three other former sailors who are fighting to be exonerated in the case.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the suspension of a West Virginia student who created a web page suggesting another student had a sexually transmitted disease and invited classmates to comment.
Patsy Cline fans curious about the early days of her brief but highly acclaimed country music career will finally be able to do more than just drive by her old house in Winchester and snap a picture.
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a drug dealer's murder-for-hire conviction and death sentence in the 2001 slaying of his marijuana supplier in a case that exposed a distribution ring in the wealthy northern Virginia suburbs.
A Bosnian charged in Virginia with naturalization fraud was formerly a prison guard who abused Serb civilian detainees during the war in the former Yugoslavia, according to a federal grand jury indictment unsealed Friday.
A federal appeals panel dominated by appointees of President Barack Obama heard arguments Tuesday in two Virginia lawsuits challenging his health care overhaul.
A federal jury on Thursday awarded $212 million to a Virginia man who claimed injections of the wrinkle-smoothing drug Botox to treat hand tremors and writer's cramp left him brain-damaged and disabled.
Virginia Tech will appeal $55,000 in federal fines levied against the school for failing to quickly alert the campus during the 2007 mass shooting that killed 32 students and faculty members, the state announced Wednesday.
Four years after a troubled student gunned down 32 in a campus rampage, Virginia Tech officials remain adamant that they did nothing wrong by waiting two hours to warn the campus that a gunman was on the loose.
A divided federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld the secrecy provision of a federal whistleblower law.
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