Virginia

The NWS New York forecast office said the smoke has given the sky in the region a "yellow or brown" tinge.

Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tenure as president.

Falwell confirmed his departure on Tuesday, a day after the school said he had submitted, then rescinded his resignation.

A senior Liberty University official says Jerry Falwell Jr. has resigned from his leadership post at the evangelical Virginia college.

Officials in Virginia’s capital city have approved a proposal for a 200-foot (61-meter) mural displaying the words “Black Lives Matter” to be painted near the state Capitol building.

The mayor of a small town in Virginia is being urged to resign following a Facebook post in which he claimed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden "just announced Aunt Jemima" as his running mate.

The FBI is investigating after shots were reportedly fired at an Air Force helicopter near Manassas on Monday.

People across at least seven states reported feeling a magnitude 5.1 earthquake that hit North Carolina on Sunday morning.

Police in Virginia say that a rape suspect who was released from jail in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic went on to kill the woman who had accused him.

Authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly assaulted a fast-food worker over missing ketchup.

A circuit court judge in Virginia Monday imposed an injunction barring the state from dismantling a 21-foot-high statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond.

The Virginia Military Institute will not remove Confederate monuments or rename buildings named after Confederate leaders, the school’s superintendent announced this week.

Packages containing seeds that may have originated in China are being mailed to Virginia residents.

Virginia has become the first state in the nation to adopt "enforceable" workplace safety standards for COVID-19. 

Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., became the latest member of the House of Representatives to test positive for coronavirus as his staff announced Tuesday that the lawmaker had been infected and was self-isolating.

Virginia State Police are looking for two violent felons who escaped from a Chesterfield County juvenile detention facility by choking a security staffer.

Work crews in Richmond began taking down an enormous monument to Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart on Tuesday, the third major statue to be cleared away in less than a week, as the Confederacy's former capital rushes to remove symbols of oppression in response to protests against police brutality and racism.

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney on Wednesday ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues in the city.