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After losses across the board in 2008, Republicans could use some solace in the handful of high-profile races on the ballot today.

For many Black voters in Virginia, there seemed to be only two options in this week's statewide elections-vote Democrat or avoid the polls.

Gil Harrington, the mother of missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, speaks alongside her husband Dan, right, and Ed Smart, left, father of Elizabeth Smart, in Charlottesville.

India's Somdev Devvarman was stretched to three sets by Hungarian wildcard Denes Lukacs before winning 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in the first round of $50,000 Association of Tennis Professionals tournament here.

Adults see Richmond High attack as the product of long-simmering immorality, indulgence and insensitivity.

Tuesday was the paper anniversary of the election that purportedly brought the US youth back to the polls and revived a long-stagnant interest in American politics.

Hundreds of volunteers jammed into the Cavalier Inn on Thursday night to help organizers prepare for a community search for clues in last month's disappearance of a young woman in Charlottesville.

There are areas in the brain devoted to our arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year's festival.

Passing a health care overhaul bill might be one of the hardest things Congress has ever attempted, but waiting until next year might jeopardize the top priority for President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress.

Culpeper police officially charged an 18-year-old Culpeper man with five additional felony charges today related to yesterday's robbery and shooting of a clerk at Westside Grocery on Sperryville Pike.

In the last year, Joshua Alan Lafferty has gone from upholding a false facade of his life for his parents' sake to telling them some of his deepest secrets.

View larger image Poll worker Mary Strossnider checks in the Barnes family, from left, Trevor, 16, Ulisa, Camberlin, 6, and Alexis 13, at Robert E. Aylor Middle School on Tuesday.

Nov. 4 - The results of Tuesday's off-year elections may change the political landscape for Democrats and Republicans as they focus on the 2010 mid-year elections.

Culpeper law enforcement officials have arrested a suspect in connection with an armed robbery and shooting that occurred this morning at a Culpeper convenience store.

Joseph Figueroa at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics says that today's Gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and the Congressional election in upstate New York reflect little on national political trends.

In the past century, only two presidents have avoided losses in the House for their political party in their first mid-term elections.

POLITICO's Arena contributors discuss what New York's 23rd District race says about the GOP.

The father of a man charged with voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of a Verona man said Monday he feels his work as a police drug informant in the 1980s might have triggered the deadly feud.

Happiness has had a tough time of it lately. The backlash against the seemingly endless stream of books about the subject had already set in last year.