The list of Virginia localities eligible for federal disaster aid after Hurricane Sandy is growing.

MANASSAS, Va. (AP) -- A federal appeals court has intervened to halt the release of a capital-murder defendant who had been slated to go free.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A commission created to spark development in southwest and Southside Virginia spent about $116 million in the last fiscal year to change the landscape of the state's rural communities hurt by manufacturing and agricultural job losses.

Virginians bought more alcohol in the state's beverage control stores and restaurants as the state agency again saw a record profit in the last fiscal year.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- It's a busy day of swearing-in ceremonies for Virginia's newest U.S. Senator.

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) -- A 10-year-old Bristol, Va., boy has donated his savings to a Kingsport family who lost their home in a fire.

DANVILLE, Va. (AP) -- The city of Danville will consider a resolution Thursday supporting a decades-old ban on uranium mining in Virginia.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Metro says weekend work on the red and orange lines will cause delays for train riders.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- There are four $1 million winners in the Virginia Lottery's annual New Year's Millionaire Raffle.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia will soon get a better picture of agriculture in the state.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Virginia lawmakers will once again consider legislation targeting the financial exploitation of the elderly and mentally incapacitated.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Visitors coming to the nation's capital for President Barack Obama's second inauguration have a range of lodging options -- from crashing on a friend's couch to rooms that cost thousands of dollars a night.

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia Tech football team is honoring the Connecticut school shooting victims and the similar tragedy on its own campus in 2007 with a helmet decal.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- A suspension of temporary highway lane closures in Virginia is set to end Wednesday afternoon.

Fairfax County police say a suspect in a series of slashings of young women at malls is in local custody.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Leaders in the health care, government, non-profit and business communities are joining together to examine health care in Virginia.

A Charlottesville woman faces charges of embezzling from a private school for emotionally troubled and mentally ill students.

More than 700 names will be engraved on a Virginia memorial honoring public safety workers killed in the line of the duty.

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) -- Schools in the Washington area will have counselors and some extra police patrols as students return to class following the school shooting in Connecticut.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Gas prices have fallen by an average of 17 cents per gallon in Virginia over the past week.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Gov. Bob McDonnell presents his proposed amendments to the state's $80-billion two-year budget in Richmond Monday morning.

The state is allowing a woman facing animal cruelty charges to run a dog shelter at NFL quarterback Michael Vick's former Surry County dogfighting compound.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Virginia State Crime Commission has endorsed tougher penalties for illegal cigarette trafficking and texting while driving.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Police are investigating an explosion that damaged an ATM at a Fredericksburg bank.

A federal appeals court has denied the government's request to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages.