Virginia Tech police are investigating the resurfacing of threats of another mass shooting at the university in YouTube postings.

Gov. Bob McDonnell is strengthening largely symbolic anti-bias protections for gay state employees, attempting to douse a political firestorm set when his attorney general decreed such safeguards don’t exist.

RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has directed state agencies not to discriminate against gays, essentially overriding the state attorney general’s advice to colleges.

Sheriffs rallied in Richmond this morning to save jail and courtroom security jobs.

A veteran skydiver injured in a tandem parachute jump Sunday at the Orange County Airport was listed in serious condition Monday at the University of Virginia Medical Center, according to hospital spokeswoman Megan Rowe.

ROANOKE - Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) has been in office just about two months now and we haven’t heard much out of him.

The magazine’s annual list of America’s Richest Counties is based on median income and U.S. Census Bureau data from 2008. Virginia had the strongest showing of any state. Most of the localities are in northern Virginia.

WESTMORELAND, N.H. (AP) — Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.

The House of Delegates today passed Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposal to create a framework for approving virtual school programs for public school students and gave preliminary approval to another gubernatorial initiative to create college partnership lab schools.

Virginia’s governor needs to change the law that he and the attorney general say keeps the state from banning discrimination against gays and lesbians, a gay-rights group says.

Upsetting some in the community, a landowner has demolished a historic Buckingham County building, saying it would have cost too much to repair the structure.

Jim Nolan and Jeff Schapiro discuss the push for a state budget, and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s opinion that state colleges can’t prohibit discrimination against gays.

Thousands of state and local government employees face layoffs because of the severe budget cuts. Just how many jobs will be lost should become clearer by Saturday when the General Assembly is scheduled to adopt a budget for the 2010-2012 biennium.

The House of Delegates approved a resolution Friday honoring Jim Bibby, a Madison Heights resident and former major league pitcher who won more than 100 games with the Pittsburgh Pirates and other teams.

A Virginia State Police video that shows burn victim Glenn Fuselier Jr. fleeing officers at high speeds before crashing his van carrying three children was used this week to persuade a Petersburg judge to deny him bail.

House and Senate budget negotiators will confer again as they try to strike a deal on rival spending plans.

Virginia leaders, awaiting feedback on the state’s application for funding through the Race to the Top federal grant program, believe proposed education reforms could improve the state’s future chances.

The well-dressed gunman mortally wounded after firing at and injuring two Pentagon police officers was armed with two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and carried several magazines of ammunition, the chief of the Pentagon police said Friday.

A Senate committee this morning advanced all three of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s education-reform initiatives on charter schools, virtual schools and college partnership lab schools.

LOUISA — A twin-engine plane crashed into a small house near Freeman Field airport Thursday, killing the pilot and engulfing the home in flames.

Authorities are investigating a multi-car crash on Interstate 64 that sent two Virginia State Police troopers to the hospital and injured two others.

U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, was among the Democrats calling for U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel to give up his gavel as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

A general who is the chief academic officer for the U.S. Military Academy has been named the next president of Longwood University.

A Virginia-led international astronomy project in Chile was not damaged by the country’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake but will remain dark until Saturday because of earthquake-related issues.

A special prosecutor says the fatal shooting of a man by a Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy during a standoff was justified.

Storm Team 10 Meteorologist Patrick McKee compares the snowstorms that have hit the region this winter.

Gov. Bob McDonnell is offering a way for House and Senate budget negotiators to align their diverging budget-balancing plans, including the Senate eliminating what he calls unrealistic revenue presumptions.

Legislation to close a loophole that investigators say is allowing a Campbell County mother to get away with the homicide of her newborn could be signed into law by the end of the month.

The U.S. Postal Service is increasing the pressure for dropping Saturday home delivery as it seeks to fend off massive financial losses.

Gov. Bob McDonnell said today that he could call two special sessions sometime this year to address transportation funding and government reforms.