The state's unemployment rate rose to 6.9 percent in January, up from December's 6.4 percent, reflecting the end of seasonal jobs, the Virginia Employment Commission announced.  Read more...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc will kick off online sales of its new iPad in the early hours on Friday ahead of its evening store launch of the tablet computer.  Read more...

After losing a late lead in painful fashion against Miami in the regular season, it would've been fair to assume Virginia might've learned its lesson heading into another meeting with the Hurricanes in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament.  Read more...

For the first time in 50 years there's a new treatment for lupus. Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years. In lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system,...  Read more...

Here's a tip to all you would-be robbers out there...Put the ski mask on BEFORE you enter the store. He reportedly left the store empty handed.  Read more...

Jackie Scott and her band The Housewreckers are helping to bring regional and even national attention to the fertile Hampton Roads blues scene.  Read more...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Charlie Sheen on Thursday filed a $100 million lawsuit against film and television studio Warner Bros. for firing the actor from his "Two And A Half Men" TV show, according to a representative for Sheen's attorney.  Read more...

A planned auction of the long-foundering Marquis at Williamsburg shopping center in upper York County was abruptly canceled Thursday, an hour after its scheduled start.  Read more...