A union affiliated with Communications Workers of America is seeking to organize faculty and staff at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia.

Two people were injured, one seriously, in a house fire Friday afternoon in the 16100 block of Meridian Avenue in Chester, fire officials said.

Skateboarders at Carter Jones Park were put on notice Friday. Unless they remove their skateboard ramps by Wednesday, the city will remove the ramps.

Work crews for the Virginia Department of Transportation will be closing lanes of Interstate 95 in the coming week as work continues on bridges from the Lombardy Street span in Richmond to the Upham Brook bridge 5 miles north in Henrico County.

From this time forth, the two eagles who nest along the James River in Richmond shall be called Virginia and James.

Governor Bob McDonnell basically campaigned for Mitt Romney at Washington and Lee's Mock Convention.

An Islamic extremist who killed two U.S. airmen bound for Afghanistan at Frankfurt airport last year and injured two others was convicted of murder.