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Lawmakers in the Democratic-majority Virginia legislature voted to end the death penalty citing its high cost, the possibility of executing the innocent and its disproportionate racial impact.

The Seacor Power capsized 8 miles south of Port Fourchon, La. in the Gulf of Mexico last Tuesday amid rough waters.

On Aug. 28 from noon to 5 p.m. employees and board members of the Gateway Children’s Advocacy Center will be hosting a Phone-A-Thon for their Change for…

The automakers' ads will suggest people consider carpooling or cycling instead of driving. The new rules, beginning in March, come as the country is trying to cut down on its carbon emissions.

Give it up for this as a peak experience: a stolen moment with some ice cream. It might just come down to that, and that's probably an idea worth savoring. The Wood Brothers, anchored by Medeski, Martin & Wood bassist Chris Wood, combine simplicity with metaphysics.

Monhegan Island, off the state's central coast, has only 50 year-round residents. Monhegan Island School has seven students this year, ages five through 12.

Baseball takes another step in its recognition of the Negro Leagues' contributions to the sport when 39 candidates are voted on at the end of this month in a special election for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

The jurors found Balwani guilty on all 12 counts of defrauding both Theranos investors and the patients.

In his new novel, Engleby, Sebastian Faulks keeps readers off balance as he traces the life of Mike Engleby, a cold, detached man who is suspected of an unsolved murder. Eventually the crime comes back to haunt him, and repressed memories bubble to the surface.

Hypnotic grooves, funktacular space-jams and a little bit of throat singing. It's another episode of All Songs Considered, chock full of music to make you feel alive.