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‘Gun-show loophole’ bill back before Va. Senate panel
RICHMOND Legislation to close the so-called "gun show loophole" is back before a Virginia Senate committee. The Courts of Justice Committee is scheduled to consider the issue today.
Gambling out, income tax in to replace Portsmouth tolls
RICHMOND Casinos? No. Riverboat gambling? Nope. Higher income taxes? Maybe. Portsmouth Sen. Louise Lucas’s first hope for undoing the tolls planned for the tunnels connecting her district to Norfolk was to ask for casinos to take their place as a revenue source. When that failed, she tried instead for riverboat gambling.
Va. budgets: Pay hike, school security, road funds
RICHMOND State workers are a surprise beneficiary of House and Senate budgets proposed by the budget-writing committees of Virginia's General Assembly.
Privatizing port, expanding Medicaid among sticking points
RICHMOND The General Assembly's money committees showed support for one of Gov. Bob McDonnell's key budget priorities by setting aside $49 million more in sales tax revenue for roads but stood against him on port privatization.
Sticking points: privatizing port, expanding Medicaid
RICHMOND The General Assembly's money committees showed support for one of Gov. Bob McDonnell's key budget priorities by setting aside $49 million more in sales tax revenue for roads but stood against him on port privatization.
Pages get up-close peek at lawmaking – and a paycheck
RICHMOND At home in Hampton Roads, Aidan McClellan, McKenzie Morgan, Cameron Bruce and Lauren Rodriguez are honor students, athletes and musicians. But for seven weeks this winter, they've put their lives on hold to take on a new role: serving the General Assembly.
McCrory communications chief returning to Tenn.
RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's communications director says he's leaving the job after only three months in Raleigh because of family concerns. Chris Walker said Saturday he'll be moving back to Nashville, Tenn., where his family has remained and has had trouble selling their house. He said his wife is also about to have their second child and won't be able to travel.
NC Dems tap Pittsboro mayor for state party chair
DURHAM, N.C. Still reeling from 2012 defeats at the ballot box, North Carolina Democratic activists narrowly elected a small-town mayor as their next leader Saturday after an 11th-hour draft of former U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge fell short by a few votes.
Va. panel OKs bill to make sex for bail illegal
RICHMOND A House committee this afternoon approved a ban on bond agents having sex with their customers. The effort by the Virginia Bail Agents Association was as a result of several cases in which bondsmen traded sex for bail or coerced their customers into having sex with them by threatening to revoke their bond and return them to jail, said Micheal Donovan, a lobbyist for the association.
Virginia panel approves bill to make sex for bail illegal
RICHMOND A House committee this afternoon approved a ban on bond agents having sex with their customers. The effort by the Virginia Bail Agents Association was as a result of several cases in which bondsmen traded sex for bail or coerced their customers into having sex with them by threatening to revoke their bond and return them to jail, said Micheal Donovan, a lobbyist for the association.
Virginia panel approves bill to criminalize sex for bail
A House committee approved on Friday a bill that would make it illegal for bail bond agents to have sex with their customers.
Report: Medicaid expansion will save N.C. money
RALEIGH, N.C. North Carolina should expand Medicaid coverage under President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul because it would provide insurance coverage to 500,000 residents — most of whom would remain uninsured without the expansion, a nonpartisan policy group said Friday.
