Shortly after taking office more than three years ago, Virginia’s top cop toured the state and was blown away to learn how bad the opioid epidemic was. Since then, he says he’s made combating the crisis a top priority. “The numbers are so big they almost don’t seem real,” Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said […]

Attorney General Mark Herring was in Lynchburg earlier this month, part of a statewide tour to draw attention to a health crisis that claimed the lives of more than 1,100 Virginians last year: opioid abuse and addiction. The attorney general convened a forum of community leaders and those on the frontline locally in the fight […]

Virginia became the first state since President Donald Trump abandoned rules to reduce power plant emissions to begin drafting rules to replace the federal mandate. At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) ordered state air regulators to propose rules by the end of the year to scale back carbon dioxide emissions […]

Twenty state attorneys general are calling on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel in the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In a letter to Rosenstein, who recommended the firing of James Comey as FBI director, the group of attorneys general argue that the public deserves a thorough […]

Virginia’s Attorney General is lending his voice to a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals case. Mark Herring is now one of 16 Attorneys General filing amicus briefs in the legal challenge over an Ohio law that would effectively defund Planned Parenthood. The State is appealing a federal judge’s ruling that blocked the law before it […]

A Norfolk man was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison on human trafficking charges. Devon Caldwell – who ordered prostitutes to call him “dad” – pleaded guilty in January in U.S. District Court. According to court documents, he worked with at least three people between September 2015 and August 2016 to pimp women out […]

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring was in Norfolk Friday to talk about the fight against opioid and heroin abuse in the Commonwealth. Herring’s talk was part of the Virginia Sheriff’s Institute Spring Conference. More than 1,000 people died in Virginia last year from opioid and heroin overdoses and 277 of those deaths were in Hampton Roads. Herring […]

Virginia’s Attorney General Mark Herring was at the Boar’s Head talking with attorneys general from around the southeastern United States about a new initiative that fight’s child predators with technology. Herring and a panel of law enforcement and tech experts spoke Tuesday afternoon in Charlottesville about the Campaign for Child Rescue. The campaign is a […]

There are new developments in our “Test the Kits” investigation, which we have been bringing you for almost two years. There are now new rights for sexual assault victims, who for years have been re-victimized by the system. Rape kits, which hold DNA evidence that can take perpetrators off the streets, had never been sent […]