
Senate Democratic Caucus announces 2013 agenda
The Senate Democratic Caucus announced its legislative priorities and agenda for the 2013 Session on Tuesday.

The Senate Democratic Caucus announced its legislative priorities and agenda for the 2013 Session on Tuesday.

Newtown, Conn., joined a list topped by Blacksburg, Va., of the scenes of the most tragic mass murders in our history. This list contributes to the United States having 80 percent of all firearm deaths among the 23 populous, high-income countries in the world.

E.W. Jackson, candidate for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor of Virginia, released a statement on gun rights on Monday.

State Sen. Dave Marsden (D-Fairfax) announced legislation to promote gun owner responsibility. Together, the two bills will make it substantially harder for criminals or the mentally ill to obtain the type of dangerous weapons used to commit mass killings in Aurora, Colo., Newtown, Conn., and countless other American cities.

We’re used to leading the world in a lot of things. How about this one – guns owned per 100 people.

The U.S. Senate last night passed the National Defense Authorization Actfor Fiscal Year 2013, which includes numerous defense and national-security initiatives long advocated by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). The bill, approved by a vote of 98-0, will now be conferenced with the House Armed Services Committee.

The H.C. Edwards Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society will host its 23rd annual Conservation and Sportsmen’s Banquet on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at the Augusta Expoland (Suite 277-279), Expo Road, Fisherville beginning with a reception party at 6 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m.

As people with disabilities, we overcome many challenges on a day-to-day basis. We want to focus this inherent will and courage to resist being victimized

George Allen received the U.S. Senate endorsement of the Virginia State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police

A Nelson County man pled guilty today to multiple federal charges for the sale of illegally poached bear organs, the sale of fighting gamecocks, the possession of protected migratory birds, and the distribution of marijuana
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