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State Sen. Mark Herring’s (D-Fairfax) campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for attorney general submitted on Monday his petitions to officially place his name on the Democratic primary ballot in June. In total, the Herring campaign submitted 16,895 signatures.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell will propose state funding in FY2014 to begin increasing assistant Commonwealth’s attorneys’ salaries and to fill key vacant judgeships in his proposed budget amendments on Monday.
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Leesburg Democrat Mark Herring announced today that he will run for the 2013 Democratic Party nomination for attorney general
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The Supreme Court of Virginia on Tuesday denied a writ of prohibition and declined to grant an immediate appeal of a Circuit Court of the City of Richmond decision that refused to dismiss a challenge to the authority of the General Assembly to draw new congressional district lines. In its order, the Supreme Court said…
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Attorney Linda Schorsch Jones has announced that she will run for the At-Large seat on the Waynesboro School Board in the May 1 general election. A long-time Waynesboro resident, Jones graduated from Stuarts Draft High School in 1982 and from the University of Virginia in 1986, earning a bachelor of arts degree with honors in…
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In my round of community meetings several months ago I found that the most-mentioned statewide official in Virginia was Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. As the third position on the ballot of statewide elected officials the position and the person occupying it have in the past received little attention. Few were the number of Virginians over…
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One is a bit of a fishing expedition. The other is basic First Amendment rights. And in Francis Chester’s hands, both are ticking time bombs aimed at March 11. The Churchville attorney was at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona Tuesday afternoon to hand-deliver letters to county administrator Patrick Coffield and commissioner of the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bob McDonnell announced today that he is cutting spending in his Attorney General’s Office by 9.1 percent and is reducing his own salary and returning his state vehicle as a response to the state’s $2.9 billion budget shortfall. “These are difficult times. This economic downturn, and sustained uncertainty, is forcing…
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Another season of Virginia Rules Camps, organized by the Office of the Attorney General and Virginia law enforcement agencies, has begun.
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The Office of the Attorney General Jason Miyares has produced six indictments of unemployment compensation fraud, as well as 11 guilty pleas for obtaining money by false pretenses.
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