RICHMOND — The strip clubs on George Washington Highway in Chesapeake are a long way from the halls of the General Assembly. But for about a half hour Friday morning, the Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services wrestled with questions of art, nudity, and noise as they c

NORFOLK – The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the public has a right to review voting applications that were rejected by the Norfolk voter registrar. A member of the Advancement Project, a Washington-based civil rights group, requested to inspect registration forms because the c

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) An ice-cream vendor who has been fined repeatedly for playing music from his truck has challenged the city’s regulations stipulating such peddlers can only use a bell for a maximum three seconds. Claudio Jose Sanchez appeared Friday in Portsmouth Circuit Cou

PORTSMOUTH – “The Entertainer” soon will be a legal way to sell a snow cone here. City attorneys agreed this week that the Portsmouth ordinance prohibiting ice-cream-truck drivers from using music – or anything but a bell – to beckon customers is unconstitutional. A defense lawyer pla

Talk about getting your money’s worth out of a classified ad. On May 3, Monarch Bank announced in a classified advertisement in The Virginian-Pilot that it was expanding its mortgage division. The ad, which ran for just one day, said the Chesapeake-based bank was seeking experienced a