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Gregory Thomas Holland, 64, of Roanoke, a former American Electric Power employee, was sentenced Friday to 36 months in federal prison for wire fraud and filing false tax returns.
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A Clintwood man who concealed his ownership interest in a waste management company and failed to report his employment and income from that business on his Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing pleaded guilty this week to one count of bankruptcy fraud in federal court.
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A Madison County woman was sentenced this week to 12 years in prison for perpetrating a scheme in which she stole more than $1.6 million from victims while purporting to have terminal cancer, vast wealth, and connections to celebrities.
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Waynesboro Public Schools plans to celebrate Black History Month by recognizing and learning from some of its most inspiring alumni.
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A Culpeper woman who went online in an attempt to hire a hitman using bitcoin was arrested this week on federal criminal charges.
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Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections on behalf of a transgender man incarcerated at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women who has been denied medically necessary and gender-affirming care.
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Senior Assistant Attorney General and University Counsel Tim Heaphy is taking a leave of absence to serve as Chief Investigative Counsel to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
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Congressman A. Donald McEachin (VA-04) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to nominate Judge Arenda Wright Allen to fill an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a Madison woman with nearly a dozen counts of fraud related to a scheme in which she took money from victims while purporting to have terminal cancer, vast wealth, and connections to celebrities.
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John Marshall Higgins, the former superintendent of the Rockbridge County Regional Jail, was sentenced this week to 51 months in federal prison.
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