Steve Contorno

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's approval rating is at it's lowest point in two years, but it's still at enviable heights, according to a new poll. More importantly for the Republican leader, an FBI investigation into his family's relationship with embattled Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams is...

Liz Essley

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

More Washington-area residents are taking bus or rail, walking or telecommuting as a smaller percentage of commuters drive alone or even carpool, according to a new analysis from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The share of workers relying on bus and rail to get to work...

Steve Contorno

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli visited a pair of Hampton Roads small businesses Tuesday to trumpet his new jobs plan -- a $1.4 billion income tax cut -- in the face of Democratic attacks against his record on women's health issues. Just days before the Republican nominating...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Authorities continue to seek information about the disappearance of a girl who went missing from Fairfax County nearly 15 years ago. On Oct. 21, 1998, 12-year-old Yuan Wang got off a school bus not far from her foster home on the 4700 block of Barnum Lane in the Lincolnia area of Fairfax...

Rachel Baye

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Polk Elementary School students were evacuated and sent about a half mile away to Patrick Henry Elementary School after a water main break in Alexandria Tuesday morning. The water main break on North Pickett Street required Alexandria City Public Schools to shut off the water at Polk...

Steve Contorno

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Gov. Bob McDonnell said Monday he wished that one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing wasn't buried last week in a Virginia cemetery, but added there's nothing he can do about it. After a prolonged search to find a cemetery that would accept the remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev,...

Steve Contorno

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

A handful of Northern Virginia House of Delegates races are being targeted by a national Democratic group as the starting point for its ambitious plans to win back state legislatures that are now in Republican hands. To bolster Republican chances in some of those races, former Gov. George...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

A Fairfax County police cruiser was struck in a hit-and-run incident in the Annandale area over the weekend, police said. About 12:30 a.m. Sunday, a dark, four-door sedan traveling westbound on Masonville Drive went through a stop sign and turned onto Gallows Road. The vehicle struck the rear...

Steve Contorno

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is putting the $1.4 billion tax cut he proposed front and center of his gubernatorial campaign in Virginia with a new television ad that began airing Monday. Cuccinelli's second ad of the race features the Republican candidate boasting that the...

Steve Contorno

Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Monday will ceremoniously sign into law the signature legislative achievement of his four-year term: a historic transportation funding package that will raise taxes to pay for much-needed roadwork on the state's congested highways. The Republican leader will sign...