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Va. Senate votes to keep teens out of tanning salons

As an increasing number of teens head indoors to get their tans, keeping kids under the age of 15 out of tanning beds is on the minds of Virginia lawmakers.

Tags: tan, tanning salon, teens, thomas warren

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Embattled UVa rector wins reappointment

The General Assembly approved a new four-year term of Helen Dragas to the university's Board of Visitors.

Tags: Virginia General Assembly, Helen Dragas

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Va Senate OKs measure restoring some felons rights

A proposed constitutional amendment that would allow for the civil rights of nonviolent felons to be restored by law rather than solely by gubernatorial fiat has won Senate passage.

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Va. Senate committee backs felons' rights bill

The Virginia Senate will consider legislation backed by Gov. Bob McDonnell to automatically restore nonviolent felons' voting rights after the measure won a committee's endorsement Tuesday.

Tags: Virginia General Assembly, voting rights, voting rights of felons

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Va. Senate GOP springs redrawn Senate lines on Dems

State Senate Republicans muscled a surreptitious redraft of Virginia's 40 Senate districts to passage Monday by a single vote over bitter objections from Democrats who were blindsided by the surprise move.

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Retired federal judge Glen Williams dies at 92

Former U.S. District Judge Glen Morgan Williams of Jonesville has died. He served the western portion of Virginia and also served in the state Senate.

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Fine reinstatement sought against Va. Tech

Tags: Virginia Tech, guns, Bob McDonnell, gun laws,

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Va. Senate organizing fight could be a showstopper

Democrats will let Republicans draw first blood in an opening-day General Assembly showdown over whether an evenly split Senate will share power or the GOP will assert a majority.

Tags: Virginia General Assembly, Bill Bolling, Dick Saslaw, A. Donald McEachin, Mark Herring, Thomas K. Norment Jr.

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Bolling to be tie-breaker in most Va. Senate votes

Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling said Tuesday that he plans to cast a tie-breaking vote in the state Senate in the upcoming session except in certain cases, giving the Republicans a controlling majority in the 40-member chamber that is evenly divided between political parties.

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