WASHINGTON – The final selection process for a new location for the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is back on track after years of delays. The FBI headquarters has been in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in the ...

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Welcome to Monday, July 26, the 31st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here are some news items to get your week started. Did a Texas-sized donation change the state Supreme Court’s mind? Police reform laws sow confusion in ...

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The Virginia Military Institute has tolerated and failed to address institutional racism and sexism and must be held accountable for making changes, according to a state-sanctioned report released Tuesday.

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A law firm has been disqualified from representing a medical malpractice plaintiff after one of the firm’s lawyers signed multiple case documents while his license was administratively suspended.

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Virginia moved another step closer to ending capital punishment on Friday when the state House joined the Senate in voting to abolish the death penalty.

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Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates this year using a map seen as favorable to Democrats, according to a ruling Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with the state of Virginia on Monday, finding nothing improper about its decades-old ban on mining radioactive uranium. The owners of a massive deposit of radioactive uranium, the largest known in the United States, ...

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Law Blog Roundup took Monday off to honor Presidents’ Day with someone born during the Hoover administration. Here are some news items for this week starting on Tuesday, the 56th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” ...

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In a courtroom in Roanoke, Virginia, a judge legally declared Bryan Manning a drunk in 2010.

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A “husband” whose nine-year marriage was negated because the couple’s Washington wedding was at odds with their Virginia paperwork cannot save the union by labeling it a common law marriage under D.C. law.

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