Property divisions during divorces can often be acrimonious, but for Honeyhline and Jason Heidemann the matter reached a whole new level of import. The couple couldn't decide who should retain ...

The hashmarks represent the number of juveniles estimated by law enforcement to have been brought to court in 2023 in shackles — handcuffs linked to a leather security belt and large ankle cuffs with ...

Traveling more than 1,000 miles over the course of five days, Courthouse News journalists visited 25 Virginia circuit courts to report on civil complaints filed in those courthouses. Their goal was to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — For Richmond BizSense Editor Michael Schwartz, long trips to Virginia courthouses are a daily occurrence. “Public records in general, that’s 85% of what we do,” Schwartz said of ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Judicial Emergency originally issued in March will be extended through May 17, effectively closing Virginia courts until mid-May. The declaration applies to all district and circuit ...

Virginia’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Monday to step in quickly and halt a recent order by a lower court that forced the state to restore more than 1,600 possible noncitizens to its ...

WASHINGTON − Virginia Republicans have asked the Supreme Court to let them reinstate a purge of suspected noncitizens from voter rolls. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an emergency ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has appointed Muriel-Theresa Pitney as the clerk of the court effective immediately, the court announced Friday. Pitney has served as chief deputy clerk since January ...

The high court’s ruling featured an atypical vote alignment. A narrowly-divided Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal from Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates which sought to ...

STAUNTON — After her son got caught stealing iPhones a few years ago and was locked up in the local juvenile detention center, M.T. recalls sitting in Augusta County Juvenile & Domestic Relations ...