The historical authenticity of Virginia continues to draw film production to the state. The feature film Josephine will be filming in Halifax County this spring, helmed by Academy of Country Music award-winner Rory Feek. Josephine is a Civil War drama about a woman who enlists in the confederate army as a man in order to find her missing husband…and is based on actual letters and events.

Betty M. Sandler, a principal in the Lake Ridge, VA law firm of Nichols Zauzig Sandler PC, has been named the 2015 winner of the Betty A. Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Virginia State Bar's Family Law Section.

Potomac Mills closed at 2 p.m., today, Thursday, March 5, 2015, due to current winter conditions.

The board of directors of Didlake, Inc., a leading provider of employment and other opportunities for people with disabilities, has named Rick Sebastian as its new president, effective April 1. Sebastian will assume the role of president as part of an ongoing transition process in which he will ultimately succeed current president and CEO Rex Parr.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today, Jan. 27, that Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased 0.2 percentage point in December to 4.8 percent and was down 0.4 percentage point from December 2013. Seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment was up 6,000 jobs between November 2014 and December 2014 to 3,797,300, surpassing the pre-recession peak

U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, (D-VA), co-chair of the bipartisan Senate India Caucus, will travel with President Obama to attend India's Republic Day celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the adoption of India’s constitution.

Newly sworn-in Congress Member Barbara Comstock (R-VA) issued the following statement on the passage of The Hire More Heroes Act which passed unanimously in the U.S. House Jan. 6.

Del. Bob Marshall and State Sen. Richard Black have written a letter to the president of Amazon.com about "the adverse impact which the new high voltage lines required to serve the data center, will have on residences, historic designated areas, and significant future economic development."