NORFOLK, Va. — The family of an Old Dominion University student who was fatally shot off-campus is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Christopher Cummings was found slain at his Norfolk home on June 10. The ...

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BERLIN — The National Park Service says two people have been charged in the fatal shooting of an Assateague Island wild horse during a public deer hunt. Officials said Tuesday that an Easton resident has been charged with four violations ...

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell fired another shot north on Thursday. Fielding questions during a radio appearance, McDonnell criticized Maryland’s business climate and kept up his public lobbying pitch to lure Lockheed Martin Corp., the largest private employer in Montgomery County. ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Turkish pine nuts sold in bulk at Wegmans, an upscale grocery store chain, have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that sent two people to hospitals and sickened 40 others in five East Coast states and Arizona. ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Lawyers for a U.S. citizen who was detained for nearly four years as an “enemy combatant” asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to reinstate a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other government officials. Jose ...

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HAMPTON, Va. — Officials and others who want to see a national park at Fort Monroe hope to use President Barack Obama’s visit this week as an opportunity to lobby for its creation. Obama is scheduled to spend Tuesday night ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia and America’s future economic success lies in the ability of small businesses to grow and create jobs, Gov. Bob McDonnell told a group of small business owners and policymakers Thursday. McDonnell’s office hosted the summit to ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia company proposing offshore wind projects in Atlantic waters is partnering with the global container ship giant Maersk to develop utility-scale wind farms in the United States. The partnership between Apex Offshore Wind and Maersk signals ...

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. —  Virginia regulators on Tuesday reinstituted a ban on dredging blue crabs during the winter months to try to help rebuild their numbers in the Chesapeake Bay. The century-old winter harvest involves the dragging of steel-toothed dredges ...

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Civil Procedure Standing BOTTOM LINE: Judgment of the district court vacated because Virginia could not challenge the “individual mandate” provision in the Affordable Care Act for lack of Article III standing. CASE: Commonwealth of Virgina v. Sebelius, Nos. 11-1057, 11-1058 ...

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