RICHMOND, Va. — A university professor who was labeled “a wannabe right-wing pundit” by a colleague urged a federal appeals court on Wednesday to revive his lawsuit claiming he was denied a promotion because of his conservative Christian views. A ...

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The proposed merger between FirstEnergy Corp. and Allegheny Energy Inc. now has only to secure approval from Pennsylvania regulators to move forward after the Maryland Public Service Commission gave the deal its OK. The commission approved the merger of the ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — A tweet about the difference between “presume” and “assume” did not require a federal judge to hold a hearing on possible juror misconduct, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held last week. Richard Adolphus Forde, who ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The lawyer for a U.S. Army private suspected of passing thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks says he has asked the government to release his client from a Marine Corps brig due to what he says are needlessly ...

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RICHMOND, Va.— A federal appeals court says police went too far when they barged into a West Virginia family’s home without first knocking and announcing their presence. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ...

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For the third year in a row, Maryland public schools have been ranked No. 1 in the nation by Education Week magazine. Maryland’s K-12 system again achieved this top-of-the-class status with a B+ grade (87.6), edging out New York and ...

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Someday soon, the U.S. Navy’s fleet could include unmanned submarine hunters, designed in Annapolis to track their prey for months. Northrop Grumman Corp. was one of a half-dozen teams picked by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Every 10 years, Virginia lawmakers redraw the House and Senate districts of the General Assembly and the congressional electoral districts to reflect changes in population growth. The state’s partisan redistricting process has long drawn complaints that it ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — The Chesapeake Bay is showing encouraging signs of improvement but remains afflicted with dead zones, fish kills and pollution, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said Tuesday in its State of the Bay Report. The report notes improvements since ...

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RICHMOND, VA — Voyeuristic police officers who passed around revealing photographs discovered on a defendant’s cellphone are not subject to a civil rights suit by the defendant’s girlfriend, pictured in the photos. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last ...

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