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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Hang a Virginia flag and its breast-baring image in your restaurant and you could lose your liquor license. That’s the warning of a Virginia Beach attorney opposed to a bill that more clearly defines what noisy, lewd or disorderly conduct could result in

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

The a Virginia Beach pastor went to court Monday. Ken Montgomery, former pastor of what was called Praise 3 Ministries church, was accused of misusing more than $130,000 in church funds. Monday, a judge confirmed a court investigator’s findings that Montgomery wrote checks using

VIRGINIA BEACH – A confidential settlement has been reached between the family of a slain Navy commando and the Navy special forces operative who killed him. Bradley A. Jondahl, 24, was shot to death by Ronald J. Gasper on July 31, 2004, at Gasper’s Pembroke-area home. At

NORFOLK – Some of the worst traffic jams both on the streets and sidewalks of downtown occur at 2 a.m. Throngs of late-night partiers amble – or stumble – out of clubs. Horns blare. Obscenities fly. Ten years ago, as they plotted downtown’s rebirth, city leader