RICHMOND – President Barack Obama kicked off his re-election bid Saturday with a rally at Virginia Commonwealth University, calling the campaign a “make-or-break moment” for the middle class.

Neighborhood Watch members speak out about their role in looking out for crime.

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Police are looking for a Lake Ridge man after they said he hit a parked car while under the influence of alcohol on March 23.

The Gainesville location will be one of four Northern Virginia stores to have a Target Clinic by late July.

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Rachel Rose Lynch is talking about the many parts she's played as a 10-year-old actress, including the time she pretended to have a seizure. She was doing an instructional video for the American Red Cross. She watched about five minutes of YouTube videos--of people in real distress--to better understand what happens. Then, as her mother, Pat, described, Rachel "nailed it" on camera....

RICHMOND--President Barack Obama rallied about 8,000 supporters in Richmond Saturday in one of two events his campaign billed as a ramping-up of the general election campaign. Richmond was one of two rallies to formally kick off Obama's re-election campaign, although Republicans note he's been holding campaign events for months....

Gov. Bob McDonnell has filed $44 million in budget amendments to the two-year budget state lawmakers passed late last month. Under an agreement between McDonnell and lawmakers, he had only seven working days--rather than 30--to propose his amendments, something both sides agreed to so as to speed up the process. The budget was already more than a month behind schedule when legislators finally voted to pass it, and local governments are writing their own budgets now....

Earlier this year, online sales giant Amazon agreed to start collecting sales tax from Virginia customers in September 2013. Now a group of Virginia business organizations that advocated for that deal is taking its message to the federal level....