Some Southwest Virginia localities are listed as "sanctuary" jurisdictions by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

including $1,000 from Virginia House Speaker Don Scott. Endorsements are split in this campaign among current and former local officials. Reason is endorsed by Newport News Sheriff Gabe Morgan, ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, is joining the board of directors of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the national party’s state-level strategy arm, just as ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott and state Sen. Louise Lucas will each take the ... Her political career began in earnest in 1984 with her election to the Portsmouth City Council—making her the first ...

Democrats in Virginia have made a note that they believe Youngkin is backing the president and not defending Virginians. House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, called the website "an insult." ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott says faith and family forged his path to redemption— a journey he hopes inspires anyone who has ever made a mistake.

On his last full day in the White House, President Joe Biden has pardoned Virginia Speaker of the House Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison after a 1994 conviction on ...

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott for a 30-year-old drug conviction. Scott, a Portsmouth Democrat, was among five people Biden pardoned Sunday.

In 2024, he made history as the first Black Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Portsmouth’s Don Scott now Virginia’s first Black Speaker of House Biden’s statement noted that Scott ...

RICHMOND, Va. — President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D - Portsmouth) on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott previously served eight years in prison.