The Tuesday passage in Virginia of two of the strictest anti-abortion bills in the country has sparked fierce debate over abortion rights the battleground state, with Democrats decrying the acts as an unprecedented encroachment on women's rights as Repub

(This story corrects to Personhood from Parenthood in 12th paragraph) PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) - Virginia lawmakers took a step toward outlawing abortion on Tuesday by approving "personhood" legislation that grants individual rights to an embryo fr

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli appeared before the Prince William County Republican Committee this week to ask to be reinstated in his local party. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R). (BOB BROWN - AP) Cuccinelli — and every other Republican wh

The 2012 General Assembly session finished its first half Tuesday with a flurry of action in the state Senate on controversial bills that tested Republicans' tenuous working majority. Senators crossed party lines to pass bills that would increase penalti

Welfare recipients could be tested for drugs under a bill that cleared the A municipal policeman receives a cup before taking part in an drug test in Mexico. (TOMAS BRAVO - REUTERS) Virginia Senate in a narrow vote Tuesday. Senators in the evenly divided

RICHMOND (AP) -- The Virginia Senate has passed legislation to require drug screening of welfare recipients. Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling broke a 20-20 tie Tuesday, voting to pass the bill. It now goes to the House, which has postponed its version of