By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE

WASHINGTON He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.

By EILEEN SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON The family of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says "the actions of their cousin are despicable and deplorable."

By Rex Bowman Twenty search teams are looking for Morgan Harrington in Charlottesville today. So far, the search leader indicated, nothing has been found.

By Erika Lovley 

Talk about bad timing.

As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.

By Jonathan Martin  Faced with the choice of running as an unapologetic Democrat in a state trending toward his party or keeping his distance from Washington in the fashion of a generation of Southern Democrats, Creigh Deeds tried to do both.

The result: the worst drubbing a Virginia gubernatorial candidate has received since 1961.

RICHMOND Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli has named two former attorneys general and a former state Republican Party chairman to his transition team.

Cuccinelli announced the team in a teleconference with reporters today.

RICHMOND Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will resume a teaching career when his term expires in January, taking a part-time, nontenured position at the University of Richmond as an instructor in its law and leadership schools, officials announced Thursday. A Harvard-educated lawyer, the governor previously taught at the university from 1987-93, leaving when he entered Richmond city politics.

LYNCHBURG About 400 members of a Lynchburg-based Virginia National Guard battalion are being mobilized for a security mission in Iraq.

By Dena Potter RICHMOND Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.

For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.

By Steve Szkotak

RICHMOND Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad released a May 2008 letter on Wednesday in which the mastermind of the deadly 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area proclaims his innocence.