Virginia

People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the election that told them to report to plantations to pick cotton.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But “Robonaut 2,” the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station, is something special. The robot is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia.

Six days after a powerful explosion leveled a home in Haymarket, Virginia, a dog was found alive in the rubble, fire officials say.

NBC6 travels to Virginia to get a better sense of the pot industry and its future as Floridians get ready to vote on Amendment 3.

When it comes to marijuana, like Florida, the commonwealth of Virginia also approved medical use. But the state also allows people to grow their own plants and those in favor of legalizing pot say this set-up has created confusion. NBC6’s Hatzel Vela traveled to Virginia to show us how that state’s situation could help you figure out how to vote...

“I’d probably be a serial killer,” Stephan Smerk recently said after the brutal 1994 killing of Robin Lawrence in West Springfield.

The DOJ lawsuit — the second of its kind against a state in less than a month — argues that Virginia is in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

After a deadly listeria outbreak stretched across 18 states and killed at least nine people, Boar’s Head will “indefinitely close” the Jarratt, Virginia, meat plant tied to the outbreak.

Thousands of people gathered in Virginia to watch Chincoteague wild ponies make their annual swim across the Assateague Channel on Wednesday

Nearly three decades after the murders of two women in Shenandoah National Park, the FBI says they now know who was responsible for the horrific crime.

Dozens of bottles of centuries-old, impeccably preserved cherries and berries from the cellar of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in northern Virginia have been discovered during an archaeological dig.

A video shows the moment a suspected drunk driver hit a trooper who was speaking to another driver.

The state chapter of the influential civil rights organization argues that restoring the names of the pro-slavery military figures created “an unlawful and discriminatory educational environment for Black students.”

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names.

The raised bed of a dump truck slammed into an overhead ramp on westbound Interstate 66 Monday, but remarkably, no one was injured.

A pair of Miami-Dade men have been arrested in connection with the heist of a large shipment of cigarettes in Virginia last month.

A Virginia boy who died of smoke inhalation from a house fire earlier this month could have escaped but chose to protect his 3-year-old brother.

Fairfax County authorities outlined a mysterious series of events leading up to the double homicide as part of a hearing to decide whether a family’s au pair should stand trial for murder.

A series of apparently fabricated articles were published on the website NewsBreak and used to raise money for victims of crimes that did not happen.