By Pia Talwar
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Home-schooled students in Virginia will have to wait until next year to see if they can participate in sports and other extracurricular activities at their local high school. That’s because the Senate Education and Health Committee killed the so-called “Tebow Bill.”
By Daniel Lombardo
Capital News Service
RICHMOND. Va. – Gov. Bob McDonnell has signed legislation to expedite funeral-related payments to families of law enforcement officers and other first responders killed in the line of duty.
By Ashley McLeod
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – More than 200 men and women lined the sidewalk behind the Governor’s Mansion on Thursday night to protest Gov. Bob McDonnell’s signing of a bill requiring women to undergo an ultrasound before an abortion.
By Ashley McLeod
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Campus police officers across Virginia frequently put their lives at risk, just like members of any city, county or state police force. But in the eyes of the law, campus police are not considered law enforcement officers. A bill passed by the General Assembly would change this.
By Michael Bodine
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – The much-debated bill that requires ultrasound testing before abortions has been signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell.
By KJ Mushung
DUMFRIES, Va. – Dumfries Town Councilwoman Michele D. Jurgensen announced her resignation at the March 7 town council meeting. Jurgensen was elected to and began serving on the council in 2010. Her term officially ends June 30, 2014. However, according to the councilwoman, her husband, Lt. Col. Eric Jurgensen of the United States Air Force, was selected to be commander of the 11th Field investigations Squadron in San Antonio, Texas.
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. — A proposal that aimed to ban through trucks on portions of two rural roads in Stafford County has failed.
Though the measure had support from residents who live along Truslow and Enon roads in Stafford County where the proposed ban aimed to limit trucks, representatives from trucking companies in the county said banning trucks along these roads – which are used as cut-through routes to avoid more congested roads like Interstate 95 and U.S. 1 — would mean truck drivers would sit in traffic longer and would burn more fuel.
By Christine Stoddard
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s animal welfare groups have had both successes and setbacks this legislative session, and the past week reflected that mixed record for the fighters for the furry, the feathery and the leathery.
UPDATE
Mitt Romney won Virginia’s Republican Primary Election with 59 percent of the vote. His only contender in the state, Ron Paul, walked away with 40 percent of the vote.
Polling places across Virginia are open today as Republicans help to decide who will be that party’s presidential candidate in the November General Election.
Virginia and eight other states are taking part in Super Tuesday, which is traditionally the first Tuesday in March during a presidential election when a several states hold primaries at the same time.
