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Princess Anne High School’s wrestling team excitedly won three individual titles at its region tournament last month. The final match at the weather-delayed event near Richmond ended late on Sunday, Feb. 16, instead of that Saturday. The weary Cavaliers didn’t roll back into Virginia

NORFOLK – A Twitter feed on Wednesday promoted the grand opening of Studio 200, a “hookah lounge” at 200 E. Plume St. That’s the location of The Palace on Plume Street nightclub, which is owned by Kenny Bullock. He temporarily closed his club after a man was sh

Dear Editor: The article “Reimagining UVA” in the Spring 2013 issue began with the observation that Thomas Jefferson “created a model for secular public higher education that has become the envy of the world”, and ended with unresolved questions about the type

RICHMOND, Va. – A state appeals court has sided with a Virginia Beach man who donated sperm to his longtime girlfriend, overturning a ruling that he lacked any parental rights after the couple split up. A three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals last week overturned a

Martingayle has been elected president-elect of the Virginia State Bar. On election I was approached by members of the Virginia State Bar executive committee and state bar leadership about running for the position of president. I told them I would discuss it with my wife and I finally

Virginia Beach attorney Kevin Martingayle has been voted the next president-elect of the Virginia State Bar in the first contested election in 11 years. Martingayle, who will become the first Bar president from Virginia Beach, defeated Northern Virginia attorney Raymond Benzinger in v

Virginia Beach lawyer Kevin Martingayle has narrowly won the vote for president-elect of the Virginia State Bar. Martingayle’s margin of victory over Raymond Benzinger of Fairfax was less than 2 percent, according to VSB figures. Virginia lawyers cast 3,072 ballots for Martingayle, co

A judge’s appearance in the back of a courtroom to support a close personal friend did not violate Virginia’s judicial canons, the Supreme Court of Virginia said today. In a unanimous opinion, the court dismissed a disciplinary complaint against 6th Judicial District Judge Jacqueline

NORFOLK— The Virginia Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether the city illegally shut down two Waterside clubs in 2009. The court will decide whether the Circuit Court erred in its 2011 ruling that the City Council acted within “the scope of its lawful authority