SUFFOLK, Va. (AP)—A Chesapeake woman faces up to 120 years in prison after pleading guilty to her role in a string of catalytic converter thefts.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)—President-elect Obama won North Carolina on Thursday, a symbolic triumph that underscored his political strength as he turned nine states that President Bush won in 2004 to Democratic blue.

Obama swept into office as millions of Americans embraced his call for change in Tuesday’s election. But where will the new president turn his attention first? Where should the change begin?

The price of a pre-paid tuition contract will rise 10.3 percent on Dec. 1 when the state offers parents a new chance at enrolling in a program that guards against rising tuition rates and falling investments.

WASHINGTON - North Carolina more than lived up to the battleground hype this year. But will it keep that swing state label in future presidential elections?

A state panel voted today to study whether uranium can be safely mined in Virginia.

Colonial Williamsburg, the state’s most popular tourist attraction, announced plans today lay off 140 of its roughly 3,000 employees because of slackening ticket sales, retail sales and visitation to its hotels and restaurants.

A tired but beaming Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today said the election of Sen. Barack Obama was “an amazing day—one of the best days of our lives.“

Barack Obama’s Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent sang, danced in the streets and wrapped themselves in U.S. flags today to cheer in America’s first black president. Kenya will party for two days after the president declared a national holiday.

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With a gracious nod to Barack Obama, John McCain acknowledged defeat and urged his supporters to move beyond partisan differences to put country first - an echo of his campaign theme.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)—Virginia - the seat of the old Confederacy, yes, but also the state that elected the nation’s first black governor - narrowly voted for Barack Obama on Tuesday as Democrats tightened their grip this former GOP stronghold.

McLEAN.-Former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner defeated Republican James S. Gilmore III Tuesday night, giving Virginia two Democratic U.S. senators for the first time since 1970.

The chairman of the state House Appropriations Committee has stepped up pressure on Virginia Commonwealth University to hold former Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe accountable for the degree he received improperly.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain battled for the White House on Tuesday in an election that challenged attitudes about race as surely as it gauged sentiments about the battered economy and the war in Iraq.

Election turnout has been so heavy in the Lynchburg area today that many voter registrars have been too busy to check on how heavy it really is.

The “ID Required” signs are incorrect, attorney Terry Burt said at Christ United Methodist Church, the polling place for Staunton’s Ward 2.

Gov. Timothy Kaine released a statement this afternoon on voting turnout and logistics.

A federal judge has ordered election officials in Virginia to preserve late-arriving absentee ballots that Republican John McCain’s campaign claims should be counted.

By 10 a.m. today, about 40 percent of Virginia’s registered voters had cast their ballots, according to state elections officials. That figure does not include more than a half-million absentee ballots that the state had already received.

Virginia today could complete its transformation from reliable Republican redoubt to competitive presidential battleground.

The body of 16-year-old Annie McCann was found early Sunday in a public housing development in East Baltimore. The death is considered suspicious.

Deceptive automated phone calls are attempting to mislead voters to the wrong polling places.

If you’re for limited government, a flat tax and getting the military out of Iraq, then William Redpath is your man.

The last of the six firefighters injured in a blaze Sunday morning on Grove Street was scheduled to be released from the hospital sometime Monday, according to Capt. D.R. Swiney of the Danville Fire Department.

About 10 percent of the Virginia electorate already has voted, State Board of Elections officials said today.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — John McCain’s campaign sued Virginia’s electoral board Monday, hours before the election, seeking to force the state to count late-arriving overseas military ballots.

Pfc. Bradley Shane Coleman, 24, was killed last Wednesday in Iraq, family members said Sunday night.

Ahead of today’s federal court hearing on the NAACP’s voting-rights suit, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appeared on four network television broadcasts and said Virginia is ready for a record turnout on Election Day.

The election numbers are in and they are huge. Not the vote totals, but the numbers it takes to put on an election in Virginia: