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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Actor Alec Baldwin, known for his mocking impersonations of President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” is coming to Virginia to help Democratic legislative candidates.

A Virginia middle school teacher was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday after he was accused of having sex with a minor.

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus has made a rallying call for Democrats to win back four seats in Virginia’s state legislature, declaring that such a result would enable them to ensure women finally have “equal rights in the U.S. constitution.” 

Officials in D.C. and other surrounding jurisdictions are passing legislation to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day.

A Virginia college student who told authorities she was “doing cocaine with the devil” in the midst of a psychotic breakdown where she fatally stabbed her best friend and roommate more than 30 times has pleaded guilty to murder.

The Fairfax County, Virginia, police union is hitting back after the sanctuary county’s police chief suspended an officer who had helped Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents capture an illegal alien fugitive. 

Left-wing billionaire financier George Soros has launched a political action committee (PAC) that has given Planned Parenthood Virginia its record largest outside contribution.

A police officer in the sanctuary county of Fairfax County, Virginia, was made to undergo “remedial training” after he helped federal immigration officials capture a wanted illegal alien. 

A Virginia teacher who was fired for refusal to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns filed a lawsuit against the school district.

The police chief of Fairfax County, Virginia — sanctuary county that shields criminal illegal aliens from deportation — has suspended one of his officers who helped federal immigration officials catch an illegal alien fugitive.

A sixth-grade black girl at a private Virginia middle school who claimed three of her white classmates forcibly cut off her dreadlocks is now admitting that her tale was made up.

A Virginia doctor is facing up to life in prison for prescribing half a million doses of highly addictive opioids over the past two years.

An eight-year-old girl from Virginia who helped raise thousands of dollars for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital by opening a lemonade stand was declared cancer-free on Wednesday.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s effort to apologize for freshly-discovered photos and videos of himself in blackface was vehemently rejected on Thursday by Rev. Al Sharpton, who the leadership of the U.S. Democrat Party considers an important arbiter of racial affairs.

POQUOSON, Va. (AP) — A high school in Virginia has forfeited its upcoming football game against a rival after videos emerged of students making threats and racial slurs against their opponents.

Farmers market attendees in Alexandria, Virginia, were frightened by the sight of open carry demonstrators on Saturday. 

Daimler has reportedly begun testing self-driving trucks on Virginia highways in a partnership with startup firm Torc Robotics. The self-driving trucks will still have humans on board capable of taking over the wheel in case of emergency.

President Donald Trump’s approval rating in Virginia hit a new low on Monday, as a Roanoke College poll found that 53% of Virginians disapprove of Trump and only 27% approve. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden repeatedly lied about his family’s ties to coal mining throughout his more than 40-year political career, but now wants to ban the energy source outright.

New data reveals that 179 university and college presidents around the country earn more annually than the President of the United States.

Recently released government data reveals that college officials are among the highest-paid public employees in Virginia. 80 percent of the state’s top earners work at a university or college.

Virginia delegate Ibraheem Samirah (D) on Tuesday disrupted President Donald Trump’s speech commemorating the 400th anniversary of a representative legislative body meeting in the United States. Samirah, who represents the 86th district in the Virginia House of Delegates, shouted “You can’t send us back,

Supporters of President Donald Trump shouted down a few protesters who disrupted his speech celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump is speaking Tuesday morning in Williamsburg, VA, commemmorating the 400th anniversary of the First Representative Legislative Assembly in the New World, which took place in the colony of Jamestown in 1619.

Former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder blasted Virginia Commonwealth University’s investigation into a claim that he engaged in a non-consensual kiss with a student. Wilder’s complaints about the Title IX investigation by the college mirror those of male students who feel they have been mistreated by “kangaroo courts” judging campus sexual misconduct allegations.

Double Amputee Veteran Rob Jones, a Republican from Middleburg, Virginia, announced Monday that he will challenge Democratic Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District seat.

Democrat Virginia lawmakers announced Friday that they would boycott any ceremony honoring the 400th anniversary of the Virginia legislature if President Donald Trump attends.

A Virginia church echoed the sentiment of President Donald Trump this week after its message board appeared with a message of love for America. The sign outside Friendship Baptist Church in Appomattox, Virginia, reads: “America: Love it or Leave It.” https://twitter.com/ABC13News/status/1151204507612848129

An Islamic teacher who taught at a mosque in Washington, DC, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for sending pornographic videos and committing a sex act with a 15-year-old over FaceTime.

Joe Biden is renting a lavish, multi-million dollar mansion in the Washington, D.C. suburbs as he seeks the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination.

Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) is not deterred by the sexual assault allegations leveled against him, saying he is still “thinking seriously” about a gubernatorial run in 2021.

Virginia lawmakers lack standing to defend their redistricting plan in court when Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring refused to do so, a divided Supreme Court held on Monday.

Republicans in northern Virginia are fighting over the soul of the Republican Party, as “the Great One” Mark Levin gets personally involved to help Geary Higgins win a state senate seat in an evenly divided legislature.

Cops arrested numerous suspected illegal aliens and drug-traffickers at an illegal cockfight in Patrick County, Virginia, according to a report in the Martinsville Bulletin.

Politico claimed Monday that Pastor David Platt of McLean Bible Church had apologized to congregants for his decision to pray for President Donald Trump during the latter’s impromptu Sunday visit. But congregants are backing the pastor.

Virginia Beach police chief James Cervera said the man who killed 12 innocents on Friday used a handgun to carry out his heinous act.