
Jesse Matthew pleads guilty to Hannah Graham, Morgan Harrington murders
Jesse L. Matthew Jr., 34, pleaded guilty today in Albemarle County to the first-degree murders of Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington.

Jesse L. Matthew Jr., 34, pleaded guilty today in Albemarle County to the first-degree murders of Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington.

Last week President Obama put an end to the use of solitary confinement on youth locked up in the federal prison system.

Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn introduced a series of bills in furtherance of her work in education, victims’ rights, health care, public safety and prudent fiscal growth.

A VCU poll found a strong majority (63 percent) think that high school graduates are not prepared for the workplace but are prepared for college.

A Waynesboro man will spend 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to an amended felony charge in a child molestation case.

Media coverage of U.S. campus rape and sexualized violence is significantly skewed toward the bylines and voices of men, according to a Women’s Media Center report released today.

Sen. Tim Kaine praised passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which passed the Senate 85-12 today following House passage of the legislation last week.

The criminal trial of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw has entered its third week.

Russell Bogue, a fourth-year honors politics student who also is studying Mandarin Chinese, is the University of Virginia’s 51st Rhodes Scholar.

With just a stroke of his pen, President Obama recently vetoed a bill to authorize funds for our nation’s troops. The President’s veto of his own military threatens national security and plays politics on the back of our troops.
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