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 ...

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.

President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the sentences of 2 others. One of those pardons went to Speaker of the Virginia ...