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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RICHMOND, Va. — A Miami businessman convicted of swindling hundreds of people out of about $126 million was improperly denied a hearing to challenge authorities’ raid on his Richmond businesses, his lawyer told a federal appeals court Wednesday. Edward Hugh ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Attorneys seeking to overturn the first piracy conviction in a U.S. courtroom in nearly 200 years told a federal appeals panel Tuesday the actions of five Somali men who attacked a Navy warship in waters off Africa ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — The Federal Highway Administration has given preliminary approval for Virginia to impose tolls on Interstate 95 to help fund transportation projects, Gov. Bob McDonnell’s office said Monday. Federal Highway Administration Administrator Victor Mendez granted the Virginia Department ...

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NORFOLK, Va. — A defiant Maryland man who faked his death by jumping into the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia Beach has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, which he says amounts to a death sentence. Larry Deffenbaugh was ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s revenues continued a steady, modest climb in August, topping the same month in 2010 by nearly 8 percent, the 13th consecutive monthly increase in general tax collections. Finance Secretary Ric Brown’s monthly memo to Gov. Bob ...

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