The Latest Breaking News from Virginia

The Fugitive Slave Act was perhaps the most detested law in all American history.

A Virginia judge on Wednesday rejected actress Amber Heard's demand for a new trial in the defamation case she lost to her former husband Johnny Depp. Heard's lawyers had asked Judge Penney Azcarate to set aside the verdict awarding $10 million to Depp and declare a mistrial, but the judge…

Landon 'Waldy' Raber was found dead in a small pond on the property where he went missing hours earlier in Curdsville, Virginia, said the local sheriff's department

With online and retail sports betting now legal in more than 30 states, the portrait of a new problem gambler is emerging: the high school student.

More than 300 beagle puppies died last year at the facility that has 70 animal welfare violations

The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard libel trial, which generated intense interest for two months earlier this year as a livestreamed, no-holds-barred soap opera featuring one of Hollywood's biggest stars, is not fading away quietly. Earlier this month, Heard's lawyers filed a 51-page motion asking Judge Penney Azcarate to set aside the…

Legal experts are expressing skepticism that actress Amber Heard can persuade a Virginia judge to set aside a $10 million defamation verdict awarded to her ex-husband, Johnny Depp

Heard’s team alleges that one of the seven jurors was not the person summoned for jury duty

Alonzo Coleman from Virginia, US, couldn't believe it when he discovered the numbers he saw in a dream came up in the lottery draw, banking a cheque for $250,000 (£210,000) in the process