The body of an 11-week-old boy was found in a submerged vehicle in Pax, W.Va., on Friday after heavy rains poured across the state this week and caused dangerous flooding in some rural parts, the authorities said. On Friday morning, after up to three inches fell in some areas over two days, the Fayette County…
Among them: How did a 6-year-old child obtain access to a gun? The authorities have not publicly identified the child or the teacher, detailed the nature of the altercation or offered information about whether the gun was taken from home, school or elsewhere. The boy was in police custody Friday evening, the authorities said, but…
WASHINGTON — Representative A. Donald McEachin, Democrat of Virginia, died on Monday after a battle with colorectal cancer, his office said. “Valiantly, for years now, we have watched him fight and triumph over the secondary effects of his colorectal cancer from 2013,” Tara Rountree, the chief of staff for Mr. McEachin, said in a statement…
Follow our latest updates of the Walmart shooting in Virginia. A gunman fatally shot six people and wounded several others inside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., on Tuesday night, the authorities said. The gunman was found dead at the store, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Chief Mark Solesky of the Chesapeake Police Department said…
It was another act of violence against civilians in the United States this month. In a shooting in Colorado Springs over the weekend, five people were killed at an L.G.B.T.Q. club. A week earlier, three members of the University of Virginia football team were killed in Charlottesville, Va., by a former football player who opened…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Tony Elliott, the University of Virginia football coach, and Carla Williams, the athletic director, entered the Tuesday news conference 15 minutes late. Both looked exhausted, their eyes red and filled with tears as they sat in front of two microphones. They were behind schedule because they had just left the hospital where…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A 22-year-old student at the University of Virginia was charged with fatally shooting three members of the university’s football team and wounding two others as they returned from a class field trip on Sunday night, an attack that led to an overnight campuswide lockdown while the authorities searched for the gunman for…
More than 100 homes were damaged and at least 40 people were unaccounted for on Wednesday after powerful storms swept through southwestern Virginia and brought heavy flooding and landslides, local officials said. More than 4.5 inches of rain fell on Buchanan County, which borders Kentucky and West Virginia in southwestern Virginia, on Tuesday night, according…
WOODSTOCK, Va. — It was getting late, well past 10 p.m., when the Shenandoah County School Board finally got around to the question that had been hanging over the county for two long and exhausting years. Should Stonewall Jackson return? “Discussion,” Marty Helsley, the chairman of the board, announced wearily. “Who wants to go first?”…