McDonnell Signs Veterans Bills

At a ceremony at Ft. Lee in Petersburg yesterday Governor Bob McDonnell signed over two dozen bills into law aimed at making veterans lives easier. Craig Carper reports.

VCU Presents Seminar on Childhood Diabetes

The VCU Medical Center's seminar series continues at 5:30 this afternoon at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens Education and Library Complex. The topic is children with diabetes.

Ralph Jackson Expected to Plead Guilty in Parkway Death

The man accused of shooting a young couple at a Blue Ridge Parkway overlook last April is expected to plead guilty.

A train hit a pick-up truck in New Kent, killing man

A 51 year old Wakefield man died late Friday morning when his pick up truck was hit by a train in New Kent County.

Teen sentenced to 12 years for plotting to blow up a Virginia Beach school

A teenager convicted of plotting to blow up a Virginia Beach High school has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Proposed Hanover County budget shows small improvement

Hanover County is looking at a budget for fiscal 2012 that is essentially flat. But as Charles Fishburne reports...that is an improvement.

Energy Forward Richmond announces student competition

Energy Forward Richmond has announced a competition for students to help understand energy and how to save it, how to save money while using it, and its impact on the future.

Virginia House calls for constitutional ammendment on federal balanced budget; state budget update

The House of Delegates has passed a measure  that would petition the U.S. Congress to call a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of mandating a balanced budget policy for the federal government ...  and state budget conferees are inching closer to a cohesive spending plan to present to the legislature.

Transfer station groundbreaking in Petersburg

As we reported yesterday, Container First Services will break ground at 10:30 this morning for a transfer station at its rapidly expanding landfill on Industrial Drive, just off Puddledock Road. It is one of the key components of what will be a state of the art refuse facility.

Smart on crime again replaces tough on crime as prison reformers turn to re-entry programs

This year’s General Assembly...and everybody else...will be asked to reconsider some current policies about how the state deals with criminals. And, as Charles Fishburne reports, Virginia’s new prisons chief will have to convince a cash-strapped General Assembly to reallocate some money that may be misspent.