Jacqueline Mangus, who works as a nurse in Moneta, won $1 million in the New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, the Virginia Lottery said in a Jan. 29 news release. “I was tickled to death,” she told lottery officials.

Despite efforts to rebound from pandemic-era learning losses, Virginia students are still struggling to make meaningful gains in math and reading, according to the latest national assessment results.

Natalie Cochran poisoned her husband with insulin so that he wouldn't find out about a $2 million Ponzi scheme that she admitted to operating, prosecutors say.

Virginia fourth and eighth graders' math and reading scores have not significantly changed since 2022, per the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card.

A West Virginia jury has convicted a couple who were accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children, including locking some of them in a shed, forcing them to sleep on the floor and use buckets as toilets.

At the crack of dawn on Tuesday, a Democratic-led Senate subcommittee rejected or delayed several of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s signature tax cut proposals, opting instead to fold them into ongoing budget negotiations or disregard them altogether.

VIRGINIA BEACH — Police have arrested a 38-year-old man and charged him with murder in the Tuesday stabbing death of another man.

A West Virginia city and county on Tuesday urged the state's top court to revive their $2.5 billion lawsuit accusing the three largest U.S. drug distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic, asking it to rule that opioid sales can give rise to a public nuisance under state law.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Tuesday that about five dozen people had been detained within a day of ordering cooperation between Charleston and federal immigration authorities. By midday on Tuesday, 58 people in the Mountain State were detained within the Regional Jail system pending verification of their immigration status.

Daniel Van Dyke, a 38-year-old from Virginia Beach, is charged with first degree murder and stabbing during the commission of a felony, according to police. Police say the stabbing happened in the 1300 block of Graylyn Drive. That's about half a mile from the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Pleasant Valley Road.

For Virginians who spend hundreds on tolls each month, relief could be on the horizon — if lawmakers can stomach the price tag. A proposal to ease toll burdens for frequent drivers and low-income residents cleared a key hurdle in the state legislature this week,