Friends of Reginald “Shay” Nicholson said the former R.E. Lee High School star football player died early this morning at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 19.

The Senate Finance Committee of the Virginia General Assembly is projecting a budget shortfall of at least $3.2 billion for the 2008-10 biennial budget — an even bleaker projection than the $2.5 billion Gov. Timothy M. Kaine had forecast previously.

President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency.

A man and a woman died from injuries they suffered in separate crashes on Wednesday, Virginia State Police said.

AAA Mid-Atlantic predicts the first decline in six years in Thanksgiving holiday travel in Virginia.

Del. Brian J. Moran is poised to collect endorsements for governor from the highest echelons of the state Democratic Party, while presumed rival Terry McAuliffe is being backed by one of Virginia’s biggest political check-writers.

The only real fight for a spot on the 2009 Republican ticket — the contest for the attorney general’s nomination — is now a three-way affair.

Virginia is going back to the bond market today, buoyed by the success last week of state and local government bond sales for public projects.

Forty years and myriad honeymoons later, the playfully naughty slogan that put the Old Dominion on the map as a tourist destination for a younger generation is being refreshed as part of a new ad campaign to promote travel in the commonwealth.

A Manassas man died of injuries he suffered in a single-car crash in Fairfax County, while a Richmond man and a Bowling Green woman also died from separate wrecks.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday.

A 16-year-old Luray Zoo employee is recovering after being bitten by a tiger.

Roanoke County police have identified the driver killed yesterday when his dump truck was struck by a train as Bruce Carroll Eller of Roanoke.

WASHINGTON—Rep. Eric I. Cantor became the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House Wednesday, winning an uncontested election as party whip.

ROANOKE — Members of the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee signaled Tuesday that they are prepared to cut spending on public education and Medicaid to help the state balance its budget.

To help ease Thanksgiving holiday travel, the Virginia Department of Transportation will open lanes that have been temporarily closed for construction or maintenance work on major roadways.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the McCain-Palin campaign from its lawsuit over late-arriving overseas military ballots but allowed the U.S. Department of Justice to join.

No need to grieve, tweens: Miley Cyrus is not dead.

The American Civil Liberties Union asked for a court order Monday to force the federal government to release documents outlining its policy regarding reproductive-health services for unaccompanied and refugee children in its custody.

Facing a haggard economy, rural governments across the state are reaching deep into their bag of tricks to find ways — sometimes novel ones — to save dollars.

Fewer than a third of those injured in last year’s Virginia Tech mass shootings got the health insurance and $100,000 payment touted as part of the state settlement with victims.

One man in Henrico County, one in Russell County and three teenagers in Virginia Beach were killed over the weekend.

Virginia’s voter turnout set a record in the 2008 presidential election, but for all the attention given to this battleground state, the percentage was not much higher than in 2004.

Democrat Tom Perriello is proceeding with preparing to take over as 5th district Congressman from Republican incumbent Virgil Goode, even though a recount is likely pending in the race.

Three men have been arrested in the weekend shooting that critically wounded a former R.E. Lee High School football star, Harrisonburg police said Thursday.

BLACKSBURG — Reports of gunfire inside a Virginia Tech dormitory briefly alarmed the campus Thursday until police determined the loud pops were caused by exploding nail-gun cartridges outside the building.

Sentenced to three months in jail for having sex with a teen, a former Staunton bus driver has one week to report to Middle River Regional Jail and less than a month until a plea hearing for four more similar Augusta County charges.

STAUNTON — Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday that he has told President-elect Obama that he plans to stay put for the final year of his term rather than accept a post in the new administration.

WASHINGTON (AP)—The federal government began the new budget year with a record deficit of $237.2 billion, reflecting the billions of dollars the government has started to pay out to rescue the financial system.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - In just six years, trade between Cuba and Virginia farmers has grown from less than $1 million to more than $32 million.