By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News   ALEXANDRIA — Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Thursday that government and defense services company Engility Corp. will make its headquarters in Fairfax County.

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News ALEXANDRIA– First he evaded the Secret Service to party in the White House as though he was in a Vince Vaughn flick. Then his wife ran off with a guitarist from the band Journey after the couple had starred on the reality show, "The Real Housewives of D.C."   [...]

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News   ALEXANDRIA — The Virginia Senate voted down a third proposed budget Tuesday, while countless state agencies worry that their funding will go on the chopping block.

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News   ALEXANDRIA — Delegate Bob Marshall, R-Prince William, is urging Gov. Bob McDonnell to sign a bill that would prevent any Virginia agency from aiding the military in detaining U.S. citizens without trial.

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News   ALEXANDRIA — Virginia voted last month to join a 19-state database aimed at crushing the trade in crystal meth.   There’s just one problem with the National Precursor Log Exchange, or NPLEx, system: It doesn’t work.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Virginia lawmakers worry they may be losing billions of dollars to cigarette smugglers, but lawmakers have resisted the idea of raising the state's relatively low per-pack tax.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Virginia home-schoolers want the opportunity to represent their towns on the sports field, and supporters of the “Tim Tebow bill” say paying taxes to the school district should make home-schooled students eligible to play.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Delegate Joe Morrissey, D-Henrico County, called a Republican adoption policy proposal “highly discriminatory, mean and cruel.”

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Delegate Kathy Byron, R-Lynchburg, plunged the General Assembly into the murky issue of human papillomavirus, or HPV, on Tuesday, with a proposal that would cut off taxpayer subsidies of vaccines against HPV, a virus associated with genital warts and cervical cancer.