By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Child-placement agencies, such as Lutheran Family Services and Catholic Family Services, are asking Virginia lawmakers to ensure adoption workers can use religious and moral discretion when placing children.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Tara Schleifer said she thinks women have the right to choose, and she worries that Virginia is taking that right away.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — As technology advances and Virginia scrambles to keep pace, health-care professionals at AD Williams Memorial Clinic here are worried lawmakers will get tangled in family medical decisions.

By Hannah Hess | Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Concealed carry permit holders and applicants have a right to keep their information — physical descriptions, criminal and mental health histories, and fingerprints — private, according to a bill that passed the Virginia House.

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News ALEXANDRIA — Delegate Bob Marshall's attempt to prohibit the use of foreign law in Virginia court decisions is drawing the ire of at least some religious and civil liberties groups.

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 Bill McMorris / Old Dominion Watchdog ALEXANDRIA — A former University of Virginia professor at the center of the “Climategate” controversy is making a last-minute effort to block a conservative group’s open records request into his email account.

By Amanda Iacone Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — How long former Delegate Phil Hamilton would spend in a federal prison came down to whether his years of public service should count in his favor or work against him.

By Amanda Iacone Virginia Statehouse News   RICHMOND — Virginia’s Capitol is beginning to feel a bit like Capitol Hill, as Republican and Democratic legislators remain at an impasse over how to draw new congressional voting districts with no compromise in sight.

By Amanda Iacone Virginia Statehouse News   RICHMOND — Despite months of political wrangling, in a single afternoon, legislators greatly diversified the Virginia Supreme Court by adding more women, including the first black woman to sit on the court.