A Richmond man spent over 40 years in prison for the abduction, rape and murder of a 3-year-old in 1975 — all crimes he did ...

Gun laws are unlikely to shift this year given the GOP governor and a narrowly blue legislature, but the landscape could ...

General Assembly commenced its legislative business this week following an unexpected delay due to widespread water outages that impacted ...

As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, he has announced a series of last-minute commutations and pardons, ...

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President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison on a drug-related offense.

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a ...

On his last full day as President, Biden issued pardons for 5 people including Don Scott, Marcus Garvey, and Kemba Pradia, a ...

The legislation comes about a year after a Chinese national was arrested for flying a drone over Newport News Shipbuilding, a ...