Virginia

Two inmates in Newport News, Va., escaped from jail by using crude tools, but were apprehended while dining at a nearby IHOP.

Two men who escaped from a jail in Newport News, Virginia were recaptured less than 12 hours later at an IHOP one city over.

Two men who escaped from a jail in Newport News, Virginia were recaptured less than 12 hours later at an IHOP one city over.

Otieno, who was 28, died March 6 at Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, south of Richmond.

Abigail Zwerner, the first-grade teacher from Virginia who was shot in January by one of her students, is speaking for the first time to TODAY about what happened that day, and how she’s doing now.

The decision has been called “repulsive” and “morally repugnant” by one scholar and criticized widely by others.

A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. is being moved into Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.

A 6-year-old Virginia boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher constantly cursed at staff and teachers, tried to whip students with his belt and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe,” according to a legal notice filed by an attorney for the wounded teacher.

A Virginia puppy rescued from the Envigo breeding facility is ready for her close-up on this year’s “Puppy Bowl.”

Portsmouth, Virginia, Public Schools received a report from administrators at Nansemond River High School that a member of Churchland High School’s junior varsity coaching staff “took part in the game.”

The move came hours after the teacher’s attorney revealed that school administrators “failed to act” despite warnings from multiple teachers hours before the shooting.

The Virginia teacher who was shot by a 6-year-old student at the Richneck Elementary on Jan. 6 will sue the school district following the school official’s failure to act.

Concerned teachers and employees warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a 6-year-old boy had a gun and was threatening other students in the hours before he shot and wounded a teacher, a lawyer said Wednesday.

A Virginia school board is scheduled to vote this week on the departure of its superintendent after a 6-year-old student shot and wounded his first-grade teacher.

A Virginia college student who caught video of a huge avalanche while on winter break in Switzerland helped rescue skiers on the slopes.

The family of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher in Virginia said Thursday that the gun he used had been “secured” and that one of his parents usually accompanied him in class but did not the week the shooting occurred.

Parents and teachers in the Virginia city where a first-grader shot his teacher have lambasted school administrators for what they say is a misguided emphasis on attendance and other education statistics over the safety of children and staff.

Asha Rodney and her twin brother were adopted by separate families as kids.

A school superintendent says administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not find the 9mm handgun he brought despite searching his backpack.

Reproductive rights advocates warn that the bill is the latest attempt by anti-abortion Republicans to cut away at abortion rights by pushing “personhood” laws.