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  • Perriello telephone town hall draws 8,000

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/13/2009 01:32 am

    Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th tonight held a telephone town hall with more than 8,000 participants to explain his vote in favor of the $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul. Meantime, Rep. Glenn ...

  • Richmond council delays vote on raising towing fees

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/10/2009 05:01 am

    With new 7th District representative Cynthia I. Newbille, Richmond’s City Council hit the brakes last night on a proposal to increase the rates towing companies can charge to remove vehicles ...

  • Perriello defends health-care vote; opponents picket his offices

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/10/2009 01:36 am

    Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th, and supporters today defended his vote in favor of the $1.2 trillion health-care overhaul, while an anti-tax group picketed his offices in Martinsville, Danville and Farmville. ...

  • House passes health care reform bill

    WWBT 12 News | 11/08/2009 03:16 pm

    In Washington this evening, a historic vote on health care reform. Democratic leaders, and President Obama, spent hours lining up the votes needed to pass a plan designed to cover ...

  • House opens debate on health care overhaul bill

    WRIC 8 News | 11/07/2009 03:36 pm

    President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let federally subsidized ...

  • Dejection fills ballroom after gay marriage vote

    WRIC 8 News | 11/04/2009 02:08 pm

    Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, ...

  • Challenger Newman wins in Hopewell race for commonwealth' attorney

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/04/2009 05:01 am

    HOPEWELL—The incumbent commonwealth’s attorney in Hopewell was defeated by a big margin last night, while Petersburg’s sheriff and Colonial Heights’ commissioner of the revenue easily won re-election. Newcomer Richard K. ...

  • Challenger Newman wins in Hopewell race for commonwealth' attorney

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/04/2009 05:01 am

    HOPEWELL—The incumbent commonwealth’s attorney in Hopewell was defeated by a big margin last night, while Petersburg’s sheriff and Colonial Heights’ commissioner of the revenue easily won re-election. Newcomer Richard K. ...

  • Gay marriage vote too close to call in Maine

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/04/2009 04:42 am

    Gay marriage was put to a vote in Maine on Tuesday in a closely watched referendum that gay-rights activists across the country hoped would prove for the first time that ...

  • Upstate N.Y. election takes on outsize importance

    Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 11/04/2009 04:38 am

    Democrat Bill Owens had a lead of about 49 percent of the vote in a special Congressional election in northern New York that has grabbed national headlines in its final ...

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