Jeffrey Leffel has been sentenced to 18 months behind bars after he was caught filming women in the bathroom at his workplace, Sentara in Chesapeake.
- DAVE RESS and MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia's new budget calls for the “temporary assignment or use of ABC special agents” to oversee the state's new, legal cannabis market. Those agents aren't happy.
- Jane Sathe
Big Mama, a Belgian draft horse standing 19.3 hands high, was recently saved from slaughter by Keswick-based nonprofit Colby's Crew Rescue.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
Coming up, the Charlottesville Band presents patriotic music at Ting Pavilion, Wintergreen Music Festival offers a musical hike and more.
- Heather Price Ives
Three Virginia counties have allocated a combined three quarters of a million dollars to fight Dominion Energy's Valley Link transmission line. But will it work?
- Hawes Spencer
A three-judge panel in Charlottesville decided Monday that the individual lawsuits against Virginia's new assault weapons ban will not be combined into a single case.
- David Velazquez
It's happened: Virginia wines have beat their French counterparts in an official blind tasting.
The Montpelier Foundation, which operates the historic home of Founding Father James Madison, has named a new CEO. Will she be able to bring stability to the estate?
Steven DeLuca, who leads government relations at Capitol One, has been named rector of the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors.
Included in the state budget approved last week in Virginia is a new State Climate Office at George Mason University, tasked with mapping heat and flood risks.
America's 74 newest citizens took their oaths Saturday at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate, braving triple-digit temperature amid a statewide heat wave.
Bumpass man David Figuly was found dead floating in a swimming pool the morning of the Fourth of July, according to the Louisa County Sheriff's Office.
The low-security facility at the Federal Correctional Institution in Petersburg will be shut down "to address decades of deferred maintenance and extreme staffing challenges."
Chesapeake Bay blue crab numbers in 2023 were half the 2011 total, and officials aren't exactly sure why.
- DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch
Chesapeake Bay blue crab numbers in 2023 were half the 2011 total, and officials aren't exactly sure why.
- ANNA BRYSON Richmond Times-Dispatch
The FBI logged 124,319 gun background checks in Virginia in June — an all-time record since the agency began publishing state-by-state data in 2001.
- Cal Tobias
The Daily Progress presents Revision, the photos that defined the week.
- SIMON DAVIDSON
250 years ago, the United States severed its bonds with Great Britain. But it didn't forsake everything. At Maggie's in Charlottesville, the Sunday roast lives on.
- ANNA BRYSON Richmond Times-Dispatch
Hours after Virginia's new ban on assault weapons took effect, the Trump DOJ filed suit against the commonwealth.
- MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
Just in time for America's 250th anniversary, Virginia has officially made the estate of former President James Monroe, Oak Hill, a state park.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
Coming up, new Americans take their oath of citizenship at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, readings of the Declaration of Independence and more.
- Hawes Spencer
For years, news stories, history books and tour guides have said Thomas Jefferson practiced law at the Albemarle County Courthouse. Thing is, he didn't.
- SAMANTHA KOON JONES
The best way to learn about America is to see America, and learning about America has helped me develop my own sense of patriotism in our current chaotic political moment.
- Eli Lerdau
Citing rising costs and cybersecurity threats, the University of Virginia has deactivated the Gmail accounts for its alumni and former students.
- DAILY PROGRESS STAFF
American Airlines has scheduled twice-daily flights between Charlottesville and Chicago O'Hare to begin starting Nov. 2.
- MICHAEL CASSIDY
For the most dangerous repeat speeders, Virginia’s new intelligent speed assistance law finally gives judges a tool that prevents the next crash instead of merely punishing the last one.