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A U.S. jury awards US$42 million to three former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, thereby holding Virginia-based military contractor CACI liable for their role in the torture and mistreatment of the detainees.
2024-11-12

Two people are killed and five others injured after a mass shooting at Huguenot High School in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
2023-06-6

The United States Armed Forces successfully conducts a test of its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon off the coast of Virginia ahead of the missile's expected deployment in 2023.
2022-10-26

At least 41 people are killed by flash flooding and tornados in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey as the remnants of Ida pass over the Northeastern United States.
2021-09-2

A letter containing an unknown substance opened at a U.S. military base in Arlington, Virginia, leaves 11 people ill, with three being hospitalized.
2018-02-27

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announces, effective February 1, 2016, that Virginia will no longer recognize concealed carry handgun permits from 25 (of the 30) states with reciprocity agreements with the commonwealth whose concealed handgun regulations are weaker than Virginia's. The state agreements with the other five states will not change. Virginia’s concealed carry permits will not be recognized by at least six states because they require mutual recognition of permits. [https:--www.washingtonpost.com-local-virginia-politics-va-attorney-general-mark-herring-delivers-blow-to-gun-rights-advocates-2015-12-21-d72ce3d0-a821-11e5-9b92-dea7cd4b1a4d_story.html ("The Washington Post")] [http:--www.chicagotribune.com-news-sns-bc-va--concealed-handgun-permits-20151222-story.html (AP via "Chicago Tribune")]date=August 2019
2015-12-22

The hurricane is expected to pass The Bahamas tomorrow, bringing tropical-storm-force winds, storm surges, coastal flooding, and 5-10 inches of rain. While the European forecast model suggests Joaquin will avoid the U.S. East Coast, the American model predicts it will ram into Virginia, Maryland, or North Carolina this weekend.
2015-09-30

A Virginia man is arrested in relation to the disappearance of Hannah Graham, a British student studying at the University of Virginia.
2014-09-24

Two crew members are killed and another is missing after a U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter makes an emergency water landing off the Virginia coast, east of Virginia Beach; the two survivors are being treated at a Norfolk hospital.
2014-01-8

In the United States, prospective Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney condemns same-sex marriage as illegitimate. At the evangelical Christian Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, he describes marriage as exclusively "a relationship between one man and one woman."
2012-05-12