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U.S. District Court Judge Robert G. Doumar, a storied and controversial figure who sat on the bench in Norfolk for 42 years, died Saturday morning.

A federal judge has dismissed or limited several of the claims in a $25 million lawsuit brought by a man who asserts that the Newport News police acted recklessly in getting him sentenced to life in prison more than 23 years ago.

A Virginia school district has agreed to pay over $1 million to a trans-identified former student, ending a yearslong legal battle over whether the student could use bathrooms designated for the opposite biological sex. 

Student Gavin Grimm, who was barred from using the boys' bathroom at his local high school in Gloucester County, Virginia, U.S. is seen in an undated photo. Grimm was born a female but identifies as a male. | (Photo: Crystal Cooper/ACLU of Virginia/Handout via Reuters) The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a Virginia school district's appeal in a case brought by a trans-identified former high school student who sued for the right to use bathrooms and locker room facilities designated for the opposite sex. In an order list released Monday, America's high court denied a petition for a w...

Chesapeake doctor gets 2 years in prison for giving prescriptions to people he hadn’t examined Jane Harper, The Virginian-Pilot © Steve Roberts Jr/Virginia Gazette The Walter E. Hoffman United States Courthouse. File photograph, August 2019. A Chesapeake doctor who admitted to giving prescriptions to people he hadn’t examined was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison. Dr. Lopito Bugarin, 66, pleaded guilty in August to one count of distribution of amphetamine as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. He was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Robert G. Douma...