The Latest Breaking News from Virginia

PHILADELPHIA — Two teens accused of fatally shooting bystanders during Saturday’s mass shooting on South Street were taken into custody Thursday by US Marshals in Richmond, Virginia, the Philadelphia district attorney’s office said.

BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) has secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) to build the first advanced nuclear microreactor in the U.S.  BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC will build the prototype in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Euclid, Ohio, under a cost-type contract valued at around $300 million, depending…

Aerospace and defense company Raytheon Technologies Corp (NYSE:RTX) plans to establish its worldwide headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, as Washington, D.C., serves as a convenient travel hub for its global customers and employees. RTX is currently based in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company plans to maintain its substantial presence in the U.S., encompassing 600 sites…

Aerospace and defense company Raytheon Technologies says it plans to establish a global headquarters in Arlington, Virginia

A three-judge panel has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force all 100 members of Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates to face an unscheduled election this year

Elite Virginia athlete Mekhai White considers the University of Georgia to be his dream school.

NORFOLK, Va. — The number of people who died from drug overdoses rose to 2,656 deaths in Virginia in 2021, setting a record for the state for the second year in a row, and fentanyl continued to be the driving force behind the spike.

There's a theory of awful internet behavior that goes like this: Sometimes social media is great for helping people connect, bringing new voices into the public sphere and exposing injustices of what we used to call "in real life." But sometimes the internet takes existing social forces and amplifies them…

On Wednesday, after more than six weeks of testimony and deliberations, a Virginia jury decided that Amber Heard defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp when she identified herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse” in a 2018 Washington Post essay that ran under the headline “Amber Heard: I spoke up against…