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With a modest "tea party" protest outside, thousands rally for what the president calls a "fateful debate" that has been raging for a century.

Five Democrats from swing areas of the state side with Republicans and send a rebuke to Obama's sweeping health-care reform agenda.

A collision with a large bird forced a United Airlines plane to return to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, ...

A Virginia couple at the center of a congressional investigation into a security breach at the White House have invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to testify. Tareq and Michaele Salahi appeared before the House Homeland ...

Chaos ensued after the police encountered a gunman in a thickly wooded area on Tuesday.

An armed man took five hostages at a post office in western Virginia. There were no reports of injuries.

Eastern Long Island and parts of Virginia got two feet of snow, and records were set in Washington and Baltimore.

Some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families about 90 minutes before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report that details new fumbles in the response to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history....

Two Secret Service agents visited a Virginia winery Friday intending to question a couple whose appearance at a White House state dinner raised eyebrows this week, the winery manager told CNN.

Republicans seized the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, giving the GOP a psychological boost heading into next year's midterm elections.