Attorney Don Scott in his car in front of the Portsmouth Judicial Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, Nov. 14, 2018. (L. Todd Spencer/The Virginian-Pilot) About eight months after his release ...

Efforts by the new Trump administration to slash and relocate the federal work force, as well as cut federal spending, could ...

With the federal government slashing its workforce and attempting to freeze billions in funding, Virginia lawmakers are ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott was pardoned Sunday by President Joe Biden for a felony drug conviction Scott received in 1994 while he was a law school student.

Portsmouth, is appointing an emergency committee of state legislators to assess the potential effect on Virginia's economy ...

RICHMOND — Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) and his wife, Mellanda, were having their coffee and slowly getting ready for church Sunday morning when the phone call that Scott had ...

President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the ...

and one of Virginia’s top lawmakers is encouraging residents, more than ever, to take advantage of the offer. Speaker of the House Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) worked along with State Sen.

The Virginia House Speaker announced a committee.The state has one of the highest numbers of residents employed by the ...

Rep. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) of the House Committee on Education and Workforce condemned President Donald Trump’s ...

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 ...

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 ...