“Virginia” on The Daily Caller

Virginia Tech running back David Wilson said Friday he’ll skip his senior season and enter the NFL draft. (more)

NEW ORLEANS — A magical ending to a magical season. (more)

Having failed to meet Virginia’s onerous ballot requirements, the campaigns of Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Gov. Jon Huntsman, and former Sen. Rick Santorum are joining Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit against Virginia’s board of elections. (more)

After failing to provide enough voter signatures to make it on to the primary ballot in Virginia, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry is resorting to suing the state. (more)

Newt Gingrich’s campaign director said the candidate is viewing the setback in Virginia, in which he failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for the state’s primary, as an “unexpected setback” similar to the attack on Pearl Harbor. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s campaign attacked Virginia’s GOP primary election system on Saturday for keeping him off the state’s March 6 Super Tuesday ballot. It was a significant setback for a candidate who has surged in popularity but struggled to organize his campaign. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry have failed to qualify for Virginia’s March 6 Republican primary, a setback in their bids for the Republican presidential nomination. (more)

A Virginia politician found guilty of committing a vicious assault in 1999 may be angling to become the state’s next attorney general. (more)

President Barack Obama has begun trying to reach military voters from the campaign trail, praising soldiers’ accomplishments and scaling back his portrayal of soldiers as wounded warriors dependent on government services. (more)

Virginia Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will reportedly announce his candidacy for governor of Virginia next week. (more)

One tea party chapter in Virginia is fighting back against what it has called a double standard for tea partiers and members of Occupy Wall Street, and, it alleges, the capital city of Richmond has punished the group for lodging complaints. (more)

Clearwire Corp. (CLWR)’s warning that it could skip a debt payment coming due on Dec. 1 may be a “ploy” to win financial support from partner Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) or another company. (more)

Seven-term Virginia State Senator Edd Houck conceded defeat Thursday night, handing over complete control of the government in Richmond to the Republican Party. (more)

President Barack Obama has declared Washington, D.C. a major disaster zone, but it’s not because of the red ink flooding from his pen. It’s not due to the president’s collapsing approval ratings. And it has nothing to do with the mud-slides and verbal infernos that he has loosed on his political rivals. (more)

FAIRFAX, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stood on a stage here and praised Bob McDonnell, Virginia’s governor and a much-discussed potential running mate for any 2012 Republican nominee. (more)

President Barack Obama’s back-to-school speech on Wednesday combined traditional exhortations to students with a campaign-trail promise of extensive government aid, but three new surveys clearly show that swing-voters’ trust in such promises has declined sharply since Obama took office. (more)

Police officials may have finally identified the stealth Rump Ripper, a man who has stabbed several women in the buttocks throughout northern Virginia this year. (more)

Yorktown, VA – A man is dead after decapitating himself following a domestic dispute in Yorktown.  (more)

In the aftermath of the 5.9 earthquake that hit Virginia Tuesday, reports suggest that there is little cause for concern about nuclear power plants located in range of the epicenter. (more)

Virginia health officials say a child has died of a brain infection from a microscopic bug, sometimes called a “brain-eating amoeba,” that lives in stagnant water. (more)