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Post-ABC News poll shows voters tilting right, but not locked in; economy, transportation top issues.

President Barack Obama, hitting the road for healthcare reform again today, will take his case to two red states that he turned blue last year: North Carolina and Virginia.

Missing mental health records for Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho have been found more than two years after the massacre, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said Wednesday.

A college student who was wounded in a shooting that killed his mother and brother told Va. police his father lured him to the family's house. The father later killed himself, authorities said.

State Senator Creigh Deeds has won Virginia's Democratic primary for governor.  Deeds beat former Clinton White House insider Terry McAuliffe and former state Democratic legislative leader Brian Moran.

Registrars in Virginia say turnout is light as voters pick a Democratic nominee for governor. The choices are former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, state Sen. Creigh (CREE) Deeds and former state House Democratic Caucus leader Brian Moran. Combined, they've raised a state record $15 million with the November election against Republican Bob McDonnell still five months off.

Michael Vick walked into a federal courthouse in Virginia on Friday to meet his probation officer, ignoring questions from waiting reporters about his life under home confinement after being released from a federal prison this week.

Suspended NFL star Michael Vick has left a federal lockup in Kansas, apparently bound for Virginia to appear at a bankruptcy hearing next week.

There was nothing outlandish about Phish’s show last night at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia — except for the fact that it was the jam-band kings’ first show in almost five years. Over a massive, four-hour set, guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, drummer Jon Fishman and keyboardist Page McConnell ripped through dozens of ...

U.S. law enforcement officials found Texas billionaire Allen Stanford in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, area on Thursday, and served him with a complaint accusing him of an $8 billion fraud.