Evergreen Cemetery, the final resting place for bank founder Maggie L. Walker, newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. and other prominent blacks of Richmond,...

Chesterfield County police are looking for a man who is suspected in yesterday’s robbery of a SunTrust bank at 13001 Hull Street Road. The suspect...

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES—Closed Wednesday. POSTAL SERVICE—Closed Wednesday; no delivery.  STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICES—Closed Wednesday. ...

Parking illegally in Richmond could soon get more expensive. The City Council is set to vote tomorrow on proposals that would increase the rates that towing...

Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell; Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn.; Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Mike Pence, R-Ind.   Meet the Press (NBC,...

Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell’s transition team has announced additional placements from the gubernatorial campaign staff. McDonnell tapped Janet Polarek...

NATO strike said to kill Afghan troops KABUL—Afghan officials said yesterday that a NATO airstrike inadvertently killed several Afghan soldiers and...

Goochland The Goochland County Board of Supervisors has voted to extend the deadline for payment of business personal property taxes for 90 days without...

WASHINGTON—The House narrowly passed a landmark health-care bill yesterday that holds out the promise of coverage for millions more Americans. Under...

A Virginia Military Institute freshman cadet collapsed after a training exercise and was pronounced dead yesterday shortly after noon at Carilion Stonewall...

History told Virginia Democrats it wasn’t going to be easy. For the past 32 years, the party that wins the White House has lost the governorship—a...

Hanover County’s school population has flat-lined. Unlike school systems in Chesterfield and Henrico counties, which continue to grow despite the...

Two half brothers who died from injuries suffered in a fire at their eastern Henrico County home Friday night were the only ones home, their sister said...

Two of the six Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation last night voted against President Barack Obama’s 10-year, $1.2 trillion health-care...

Bryan T. Norwood entered an awkward political environment when he started as Richmond’s police chief just over a year ago. Norwood, the former police...

Eleven-year-old Powhatan County resident Monica Plumb is the Kid of the Year. That’s according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...

A house that stands in the way of the Gayton Road extension has an unlikely new tenant: Henrico County. By paying $1,400 a month to rent the house at 12520...

Q:My question is about a highway memorial sign. I had the sign made. I believe that the Virginia Department of Transportation has to put it up. I just...

As fast as cooks stirred up cauldrons of Brunswick stew at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market yesterday, Lenny and Jeri Sturm bought it. Walking through...

For three weeks in 2002, John Allen Muhammad led a two-man sniper team that struck on his orders, claimed 10 lives and deliberately terrorized Virginia,...

HOPEWELL—After nearly two years of setbacks, the conversion of the historic James E. Mallonee school into 51 residential loft units is on track for...

Big win notwithstanding, Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell will start his administration hampered by a slashed state budget, a politically divided legislature...

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage...

The House has voted to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats want to compete with private insurers.

Two half brothers who died from injuries suffered in a fire at their eastern Henrico County home Friday night were the only ones home, their sister said...

Chesterfield County police are looking for a man who is suspected in Saturday’s robbery of a SunTrust bank at 13001 Hull St. The suspect handed a...

President Barack Obama summoned Democrats to “answer the call of history” Saturday as the House pushed toward a vote on a landmark health care...

FAIRFAX—A man who admitted murdering his ex-girlfriend by stabbing her with a pair of scissors has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Sayed Hashemi,...

LEXINGTON—A Virginia Military Institute freshman cadet collapsed after a training exercise and was pronounced dead shortly after noon todayat Carilion...

CHARLOTTESVILLE—More than 500 volunteers are continuing the search for a Virginia Tech student who went missing in Charlottesville last month. Morgan...