Austin Dillon won for the first time in nearly two years in the NASCAR Cup Series.

Federal authorities have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the man they believe raped and murdered two women in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park almost three decades ago.

Denny Hamlin won the race off pit road with Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. after a caution with two laps to go and won in overtime at Richmond Raceway.

Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care.

The estate of Sinead O’Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies.

Virginia lawmakers have passed legislation that if approved by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin would allow recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year.

A military veteran who shot and killed a handcuffed civilian in Iraq nearly 20 years ago has been ordered jailed on charges that he used a metal baton to assault police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Richmond snapped No. 16 Dayton’s nation-leading 13-game winning streak 69-64 and took sole possession of first place in the Atlantic 10 Conference.

A federal magistrate judge has ordered the release of a military veteran charged with attacking police officers with a baton during a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A former U.S. Army soldier who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a handcuffed cow herder in Iraq has been arrested on charges that he attacked police officers with a baton during the U.S. Capitol riot three years ago.

As casinos start to pop up on Virginia’s southern border, some lawmakers are ready to explore whether wealthy northern Virginia should get in on the action.

Pillsbury Mills was a groundbreaking, history-making flour mill in central Illinois for most of the 20th century.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has expressed disappointment with election results that allowed Democrats to take control of both the Virginia House and Senate, but pledged to work with the party's new legislative majority on bipartisan priorities.

No. 8 Washington visits Michigan State on Saturday.

Denny Hamlin is not offering any apologies for the move he made last weekend at Pocono that caused Kyle Larson to hit the wall and let Hamlin sail on to victory.

The next round of COVID-19 vaccines will target one of the latest versions of the coronavirus.

Police say a gunman who opened fire minutes after a high school graduation in Richmond, Virginia, targeted an 18-year-old graduate he had a long-running dispute with.

Police say two people have been killed and five more wounded in a shooting after a high school graduation ceremony in Virginia’s capital.

Authorities in eastern Indiana lifted a dayslong evacuation order Sunday for an area near a plastics fire after they said it was determined air quality and other environmental concerns were safe.

A fire chief says crews working to fully extinguish an Indiana plastics fire have reduced its smoldering areas to a single hot spot as officials prepared to decide if a dayslong evacuation order should be lifted.

Experts say a fire at a plastics business in Indiana raises numerous health concerns.

An evacuation order for people living near an extraordinary plastics fire in Indiana is stretching into its fourth night Friday.

Authorities say a major industrial fire in Indiana fueled by tons of scrap plastics is close to being extinguished.

Authorities say an evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people is expected to remain in place through Wednesday around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked through the night to douse piles of burning plastics.

Bubba Wallace's self-confidence is struggling after a slow start to the season and back-to-back poor finishes as he heads into Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway.

When I first started watching Apple TV+’s hit series “Ted Lasso” a few years ago, I just assumed that the football club that Jason Sudeikis’ character coaches (and the area it surrounds) was completely fictional. While the soccer (er, football) team AFC Richmond is totally fake, the small city of Richmond is totally real.

Days after exiting its stake in troubled electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs, Altria announced a $2.75 billion investment in electronic cigarette startup NJOY Holdings Inc. As part of the deal, tobacco company Altria Group Inc., which makes Marlboro cigarettes, will have full global ownership of NJOY’s e-vapor product portfolio, including pod-based e-vapor product NJOY ACE.

Democrat Jennifer McClellan has defeated her Republican opponent to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she will be the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress.

The remains of a Confederate general unearthed from beneath a monument at the center of a Virginia intersection have been reinterred at a cemetery in his hometown.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia says there's “a whole lot more” he wants to do and he's seeking reelection next year.

Facing massive pandemic learning loss, the superintendent in Richmond, Virginia, tried to remake one of the most untouchable aspects of school – the academic calendar.

The city of Richmond _ the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War _ has removed its last city-owned Confederate statue.

A prosecutor says the former medical director of a Virginia hospital that serves vulnerable children has been charged with four felony sex crimes in connection with abuse at the facility years ago.

A town employee who for years quietly lowered the fluoride level in a Vermont community’s drinking water has resigned.

Residents of a small community in Vermont were blindsided last month by news that one official in their water department quietly lowered fluoride levels nearly four years ago.

A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks _ Visa, Mastercard and American Express _ to drop their plans to start tracking sales at gun stores, arguing the plans could infringe on consumer privacy and push legal gun sales out of the mainstream financial network.

Baker County closed the Border Classic with an unforgettable finish.

Kevin Harvick took the lead from Joey Logano with 66 laps to go and held off Christopher Bell at Richmond Raceway on Sunday for his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victory.

Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. are the favorites as they battle for position to make NASCAR’s playoffs.

Former Georgia running back great Lars Tate has died at the age of 56.

A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot got even larger as officials raised the massive prize to $1.28 billion on Friday, just hours before the drawing.

You bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket and have been dreaming of how you’ll spend $1.28 billion.

Police in Richmond, Virginia, say they thwarted a planned Fourth of July mass shooting after receiving a tip that led to arrests and the seizure of multiple guns.

People are flocking to pools, beaches and cooling centers in a swath of the Midwest and South spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes, as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond and may have caused the deaths of at least two people in the Milwaukee area.

Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

Officials in Kentucky say the nation's last stockpiles of a deadly chemical agent have been safely eliminated.

President Joe Biden is urging U.S. companies to make sure their digital doors are locked tight.

More than 500 workers at a Chevron Corp. refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area are on strike over safety concerns and to demand a salary increase to keep up with inflation and the area’s high cost of living.

If the players in this year's tournament somehow look older, it's not your eyesight.

Jacob Gilyard scored 24 points and 12th-seeded Richmond leaned on its experienced lineup to defeat Big Ten champion Iowa 67-63 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Virginia lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow local police departments to use facial recognition technology in some circumstances, including when they have reasonable suspicion a person has committed a crime.

The NCAA has relaxed the amount of THC an athlete can have to trigger a positive test, and is recommending less-stringent penalties for athletes who do test positive for marijuana.

U.S. shoppers are giving plant-based burgers a pass.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s hefty legislative agenda has been dealt a series of expected blows in the first half of the General Assembly session by the Democrat-controlled Senate.

The Richmond Fire Investigations Unit are working to determine the cause and origin of a fire that engulfed William Fox Elementary School in Richmond.

A state official says a deputy Virginia attorney general has resigned after The Washington Post raised questions about social media comments the newspaper reported she made about the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and other matters.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected a petition from parents that sought to invalidate Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order prohibiting school systems from enforcing mask mandates in the classroom.

A judge has temporarily halted an executive order by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin that allowed parents to opt out of school mask mandates for their children.

A Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate committee has voted against Gov. Glenn Youngkin's choice for secretary of natural and historic resources.

Three of the nation’s biggest banks reported blowout profits for 2021 on Friday, helped by the improving economy and consumers and businesses willing to spend and take on loans.

JPMorgan Chase says fourth-quarter profits fell 14% from a year earlier, due to a weaker performance from its trading desk and higher compensation expenses for employees.

Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says crews wrapping up the removal of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

A rust-colored 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin have been found in a time capsule hidden beneath a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The information technology agency that serves Virginia’s legislature has been hit by a ransomware attack that has substantially affected its operations.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has announced that his administration will remove an enormous pedestal that until earlier this year held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Dozens of customers who stopped for a drink at Britain’s highest pub are getting a longer stay than they bargained for after the building was cut off by a blizzard.

Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin and outgoing Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam are pledging a smooth transition of power.

Tight races for governor were unfolding in Virginia and New Jersey late Tuesday with the Democratic candidates narrowly trailing their Republican rivals in states that President Joe Biden easily captured a year ago.

A Virginia governor’s race that appears deadlocked between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin has entered its final hours.

Democrats’ decision to drop a proposal for paid family leave from their massive social safety net and climate change package was met with disappointment and irritation by female voters in Virginia.

Virginia's Republican candidate for governor is calling it “weird and wrong” that attendees at a right-wing election rally recited the Pledge of Allegiance to a flag said to have been flown at a rally before the Capitol riot in January.

NASCAR will open the 2022 season inside Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in one of the biggest shakeups to its schedule in years.

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Martin Truex Jr. assumed the lead when Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch was penalized with about 50 laps to go and won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond Raceway.

Workers at the site in Richmond, Virginia, where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Crews have halted searching for the day for a time capsule from 1887 believed buried in the pedestal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

A statue of Gen. Robert E.

A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the first time in five weeks even though the economy and job market have been recovering briskly from the coronavirus pandemic.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low, the latest sign that America’s job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell for a third straight time last week, the latest sign that employers are laying off fewer people as they struggle to fill a record number of open jobs and meet a surge in consumer demand.

U.S. employers posted a record 10.1 million job openings in June, another sign that the job market and economy are bouncng back briskly from last year’s coronavirus shutdowns.

Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat says that its revenue jumped 32% in the second quarter as demand from restaurants returned.

Washington Football President Jason Wright tells The Associated Press the organization has substantially narrowed the list of potential names for the team.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits has reached its lowest level since the pandemic struck last year, further evidence that the U.S. economy and job market are quickly rebounding from the pandemic recession.

The U.S. government is starting to deposit child tax credit money into the accounts of more than 35 million families.

U.S. consumer borrowing surged by a larger-than-expected $35.3 billion in May as Americans, bolstered by a reopening economy and rising job levels, went back to using credit in a big way.

U.S. employers posted a record-high number of open jobs for the second straight month as a rapidly rebounding economy has created an intense demand for workers.

If a court clears the way, the state of Virginia will not just remove a soaring statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The date for legalizing marijuana possession is drawing near in Virginia, and people have questions.

It’s an occasion that’s recognized in most states and the District of Columbia, but it’s not as of yet a federal holiday.

On what would have been Prince Philip’s 100th birthday, his youngest child said he would not have been looking forward to any celebrations to mark the occasion.

Mark your calendars: Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, is set for Saturday.

U.S. employers posted a record 9.3 million job openings in April as the U.S. economy reopens at break-neck speed.

The Supreme Court of Virginia has heard arguments on whether the state has the right to take down a 131-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

The Supreme Court of Virginia is set to hear arguments in legal challenges to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's plan to take down a 131-year-old statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

Gasoline prices are at a seven-year high ahead of one of America’s busiest holiday travel weekends.

Plant-based meat company Beyond Meat has posted a first-quarter loss after higher sales were offset by marketing costs and lower prices.