Central Virginia’s Legal Information Network for Cancer held its fourth annual “It’s in the Bag” benefit auction Nov. 5 at the...

AM Radio (590) WLES (Christian Talk Radio) (820) WGGM (gospel, USA Radio news) (870) WFLO (country/bluegrass) (910) WRNL (local and national sports, talk,...

Recently, I came across a book of my grandmother’s recipes. I want to put them together as a cookbook for a family keepsake, but nearly all of the...

The top catwalks in New York, London, Paris and Milan, Italy, give head-to-toe style cues for next season. But while shoppers have to wait months for the...

With first lady Anne Holton leading the charge, the fate of children in foster care in Virginia has improved dramatically in the past four years. There...

There is a message circulating on the Web about putting an unpeeled onion in a room to attract flu viruses. Apparently, this is supposed to protect people...

One of the first rules most parents learn on the job is that children thrive on routine. Setting a schedule for dinner and bedtime, and establishing family...

Q:I have been using the same Medicare prescription-drug plan for four years, but my pharmacist told me I needed to switch to a different plan that fits...

Lyndsey Benson lived in a foster care home, was adopted, committed, and then overdosed while living on the streets.  Now going to college, she is...

Vintage Maymont, the 12th annual auction of travel, wine, entertainment and culinary treasures, was held Oct. 23 at The Jefferson Hotel to benefit the...

Almeida, Mrs. Joyce Ann Cumbie, 83, of Chester, a former communications operator, wife of Wilfred E. Almeida Sr. Artis, Ms. Rosetta A., 59, of Richmond....

As a marine biologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at Gloucester Point, Dr. Morris Henry “Mory” Roberts Jr. studied the movement...

The 19-year-old woman in the middle of the second row of the history class looks like any other college student. She is every bit the bookish student,...

The Rev. Shirley Ann McSweeney was ordained to the ministry in 1996 at St. Paul’s Baptist Church and had a stroke the same year while working at...

MUSIC Oxendines, Witness, tonight at 6, Gospel Chicken House, 14709 Greenwood Church Road, Montpelier. Details: (804) 883-6487 or

Artis, Ms. Rosetta A., 59, of Richmond. Barbour, Mrs. Muriel Davis Watson, 79, of Richmond, retired chief of recreation service at McGuire Department...

SHANGHAI—Atop tidal flats fed by the mighty Yangtze River, this city of 20 million rose from the sea and grew into a modern showcase, with skyscrapers...

Miserable in menopause, Elizabeth Alsgaard pondered an awful choice: drenching hot flashes or hormone therapies that might raise the risk of cancer. What...

MINNEAPOLIS—Last year, an adoption agency in Florida was denied permission to find children, for American families, in 77 foreign countries that...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Tuition might not be the most troubling concern for parents sending sons and daughters off to college. Disturbing incidents of violent...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Early in August, when Jane McIntyre was a candidate for executive director of United Way of the Central Carolinas, the inevitable...

EKET, Nigeria—Staring blindly at the wall, the 9-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants. His family pastor had accused...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—Here’s a question that all thoughtful college professors must ask themselves occasionally: Beyond football and fraternities,...

LYNCH, Ky.—Joseph Marzelli is glad for the cheerful canary singing in the darkness of an Appalachian coal mine. “As long as I can hear your...

FORT WORTH, Texas—Children’s eyes misplaced, bodies mismatched, skeletal remains missing—news reports about mistakes in medical examiner...

MILWAUKEE—56 days . . . 55 days . . . 54 days . . . Chelsea Caudle began signing her text messages this summer with a countdown. At 14 years old,...

NATHALIE Four years ago, Richmond engineer Robert Moss was standing in a thicket of pine trees, tangled vines and poison oak deep in rural Halifax County...

Calendar of events relating to homes and gardens Petersburg Area Art League Arts & Crafts Show, 6-9 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. tomorrow and 11 a.m.-5...

Q:My wife received a rather large cutting from her mother’s rose in the late spring. It had flourished in New Hampshire for nine years. We have nurtured...

Decorate in a flash Usually home decorating is an evolving process. But sometimes speed is of the essence—say, when you’re preparing to sell...