RICHMOND Before state Sen. Tommy Norment took a $160,000-a-year job with the College of William and Mary last year, the state attorney general warned him against giving legal guidance to the university and said Norment would need to disqualify himself from General Assembly actions involving the school.

RICHMOND Attorney General Bill Mims and the College of William and Mary seem to be on a collision course over the legality of state Sen. Tommy Norment's role as a legal adviser to the college. Since July 2008, William and Mary has been paying Norment $160,000 a year for a dual role as part-time teacher and legal counselor. The story was reported Sunday in The Virginian-Pilot.

By Anita Kumar and Rosalind S. Helderman
The Washington Post
RICHMOND
A scathing legislative audit released Tuesday shows Virginia's outsourcing of a massive $2 billion computer upgrade has been so troubled that core government services have been disrupted but that canceling the contract could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

NORFOLK The Old Dominion University teacher training center that hired state Del. Phil Hamilton had no true employees of its own, and its Peninsula office sat unused for much of the past two years, an internal audit has found.

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A corrective plan filed by the private company hired to overhaul Virginia's computer systems indicates that most of the work is now expected to be completed by April.
Earlier this summer, after Northrop Grumman Corp. failed to meet a June 30 deadline for finishing the work, state technology officials instructed the company to submit an updated work plan.

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Just about every top state official has offered an opinion, but only five people have a say in the ethics investigation of Del. Phil Hamilton’s efforts to land a job with Old Dominion University.

That quintet – members of the House of Delegates’ Ethics Advisory Panel – is charged with evaluating complaints made against legislators.

Ranking GOP leaders formally requested an ethics investigation into the actions of Newport News Republican Del. Phillip Hamilton on Monday in the face of growing outcry about the influential legislator's $40,000-a-year job at Old Dominion University.

RICHMOND The Democrat running to be Virginia's top prosecutor says Newport News Republican Phillip Hamilton should immediately resign his seat in the House of Delegates.

NORFOLK

State Del. Paula Miller will join the communications department at the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office on Monday. Miller, a Norfolk Democrat, leaves a similar job at the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office that she has held for almost 10 years.

RICHMOND Five years after he was freed from prison and nearly three decades after being charged for two rapes for which he was later cleared, Norfolk's Arthur Lee Whitfield has the kind of apology that often comes at the conclusion of civil suits: a financial settlement.