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.

RICHMOND

Concerned that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell’s rising tide might  float additional House GOP hopefuls to Election Day wins, Democrats at the last minute are pumping thousands of dollars into a host of district races in South Hampton Roads and beyond to protect vulnerable seats.

Mitt Romney will be in Virginia Beach today to hold a news conference with candidates Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli.

They will appear together at 12:15 p.m. at the Westin Virginia Beach Town Center, 4535 Commerce St., a news release says.

The Republican candidates also are planning on holding rallies and news conferences today in Roanoke and Richmond, the release says.

NORFOLK
Creigh Deeds is hoping the kind of energy President Barack Obama generated among a crowd of 5,700 on Tuesday is contagious enough to overcome polls suggesting he trails Republican Bob McDonnell and needs long presidential coattails to drag him to victory Nov. 3.

NORFOLK Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell brought his campaign to Hampton Roads on Saturday, shaking hands and making hand-rolled waffle cones at Doumar’s Cones & Barbecue in Norfolk.

“That’s a great American story,” McDonnell said after talking with Al Doumar, the owner, and his son Thad Doumar. “What a great piece of history.”

Most Virginians say they want to close the so-called gun show loophole that permits some gun sales without criminal background checks, and they dislike the notion of someone carrying a concealed firearm into a restaurant that serves alcohol, according to a new poll.

Most Virginians are adamant about not wanting to raise taxes to address transportation problems, but depending on where they live, they disagree about whether fixing urban congestion is a regional or a state responsibility, according to a new poll.
Almost one of every four likely voters indicated that if the state needs to make more budget cuts, they want to start with transportation spending.

VIRGINIA BEACH Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said Saturday he believes the globe is warming but wouldn't blame man-made carbon emissions as its cause. McDonnell said after a veterans rally with Arizona Sen. John McCain that he remains firmly opposed to energy legislation intended to slow global warming by reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere.

VIRGINIA BEACH
Between campaign stops on a humid August day, Bob McDonnell’s caravan detoured onto Petunia Crescent in the Green Run neighborhood.
McDonnell stepped out and, embracing his wife, Maureen, quietly stared at a modest brick home. They bought it in 1985, when he returned to Hampton Roads to settle, raise a family and continue his education.

By Michael Sluss WARM SPRINGS Creigh Deeds mingled among the friends, neighbors and family members who gathered at a Bath County farm on a summer Sunday afternoon to salute a favorite son and the Democratic Party's nominee for governor.