The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority will ask the city today for a loan of up to $1.4 million to fill a deepening shortfall in the housing-voucher...

Virginia Commonwealth University’s library has acquired its 2 millionth volume: a Spider-Man comic featuring President Barack Obama. A public event...

State-tax delinquents can pay up without a fine from Oct. 7 to Dec. 5, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced yesterday. In the two-month period, they will not...

A woman and a boy were taken to a hospital for treatment after being struck with birdshot in a shooting Sunday in South Richmond. Richmond police Capt....

Colonial Heights The first Colonial Heights Celebrate Safe Communities Night will be Oct. 6 from 6 to 9 p.m. The Colonial Heights Police Department has...

Charles J. Phillips says he didn’t pay for his college education and you shouldn’t have to, either. Phillips, who wrote a book about how he...

A Richmond woman can keep street access to her carport on Stuart Avenue. The City Council voted 6-2 yesterday to strike a proposal to revoke the permit...

Richmond police arrested two males and were looking for a third after authorities said the trio robbed a West Broad Street bank and then crashed into a...

The men at the top of the Republican ticket continued to hammer a theme of controlled spending and budget reform yesterday. Gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell,...

Radford University President Penelope Kyle has asked two popular administrators to return to their jobs in the New Student Programs and Services Office,...

Iran’s missile tests demonstrate the importance of U.N. inspections and of muscular diplomacy by additional world powers, according to Virginia’s...

CHICAGO (AP)—Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties...

The Richmond Redevelopment & Housing Authority will ask the city tomorrow for a loan of up to $1.4 million to fill a deepening shortfall in the housing...

ORANGE (AP)—A pit bull that attacked and killed a 23-month-old Orange County girl has been euthanized. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says...

The men at the top of the Republican ticket today continued to hammer a theme of controlled spending and budget reform. Bob McDonnell, the nominee for...

Richmond police arrested two people and are looking for a third suspect this afternoon after a bank robbery on West Broad Street and a car chase. Police...

A Richmond woman can keep street access to her carport on Stuart Avenue. The City Council voted 6-2 this afternoon to strike a proposal to revoke the permit...

Carbon monoxide from an emergency generator supplying backup power to the SunTrust Mortgage building on Semmes Avenue sickened more than 40 workers this...

A string of bombings killed at least 18 people across Iraq on Monday, shattering a relative lull in violence during the celebration that marks the end...

Russia’s foreign minister is being quoted by his country’s news agencies as saying that Iran’s missile tests are causing concern.

Former Serb paramilitaries took part in last week’s brazen helicopter raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, Serbian police officials said Monday.

A 19-year-old Richmond man has been convicted in Louisa County of soliciting sex from a minor. Robert Cox was arrested in October in a Louisa undercover...

About three dozen people attended a lunchtime protest today outside a downtown Richmond strip club that has a new banner depicting President Barack Obama...

The men at the top of the Republican ticket want to increase the amount of money the state can stash in its Rainy Day Fund; institute performance audits...

Tax amnesty will be offered to Virginia taxpayers Oct. 7 throughl Dec. 5, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced today.

Investigators say a Philadelphia teenager wrapped a cat in duct tape, put it in a shopping bag and left it in a neighbor’s backyard.

A man and two teenagers have pleaded not guilty in what authorities describe as a racially motivated beating of an elderly black fisherman.