President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott previously served eight years in prison.

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil ...

Biden announced that he used his clemency power to pardon Richmond native and criminal justice advocate Kemba Smith Pradia, ...

Del. Don Scott (D-Portsmouth), the first Black person to serve as speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, was convicted ...

Great Expectations was designed to help people who grew up in foster care get their two-year degrees. And unlike many ...

More than 1,000 bills are filed for General Assembly consideration each year. In this weekly series, the Virginia Mercury ...

Virginia State Yo-Yo Contest was held this weekend, giving people of all ages the chance to show off their skills.

Nine preservation projects in Central Virginia have been awarded grant funding through the Virginia 250 Preservation Fund.

The suit by Jason Miyares alleges the app was intentionally designed to be addictive for teenagers and that it obscures its ...

Virginia lawmakers are poised to end a nearly 20-year-old cap on state-funded support positions in public schools, a policy ...

Doug Wilder, the man who made history in 1990 as the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since Reconstruction, is celebrating a milestone birthday on Friday.

Richmond Animal Care and Control has rescued a dog that had been tied with a leash to a bus pole between Thursday night and Friday morning.