An American high school teacher who refused to use a transgender student’s new pronouns has been fired.

Witnesses to a collision between a train carrying Republican congressmen and a bin lorry in rural Virginia have told investigators the truck entered the rail crossing after safety gates came down.

Latest: One person has died and 19 others were injured after a car ploughed into a group of people marching against white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia today.

Virginia has executed a man convicted of killing two young girls and their parents in their home on New Year's Day more than 11 years ago.

Former hurricane Hermine has regained strength as it moved slowly up the eastern side of the US.

A police officer on her first shift after returning to the force has been shot dead and two of her colleagues wounded after responding to a domestic call about an argument.

A police officer on her first shift after returning to the force has been shot dead and two of her colleagues wounded after responding to a domestic call about an argument.

Schools in a Virginia county closed yesterday as a safety precaution after an assignment asking students to practice Arabic calligraphy sparked an angry outcry from parents and threats from outside the district.

The woman who survived an on-air shooting that killed two TV journalists in Virginia has been released from hospital.

Vester Flanagan fulfilled a threat to put his conflict with colleagues into “the headlines” when he gunned down two employees of a Virginia TV station during a live morning broadcast – one of them a cameraman who had filmed his sacking two years earlier.

A man suspected of shooting two US TV news journalists dead during a live broadcast has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

The suspect in the fatal shooting of two US journalists during a live TV report in Virginia has died in hospital.

A US Navy helicopter with five crew members crashed into the ocean off the Virginia coast during a routine training mission killing two and leaving two in hospital.

Cold Mountain, starring Jude Law, opens with the gruesome Battle of the Crater outside Petersburg, Virginia, where Union forces dig a tunnel under the Confederates, pack it with gunpowder, and blow the lot to bits.