After a career spent working with at-risk kids, Gail Feind wanted to find a way to continue her passion in retirement. It found her. Feind, 60, was selected...

Meadowbrook High School is struggling with discipline issues and low attendance, below-average state and county graduation rates and students’ lack...

Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc. has expanded its line of prepared foods to include several oven-ready, family-sized options aimed at working families....

PETERSBURG Dana Ballenger brought home two baby doll sheep and gave them good Southern names, Jezabell and Thelma Lou. She checked first with city authorities...

Swine flu appears to have been cut in half in Virginia. About 8 percent of people visiting emergency rooms across the state reported flulike illness, down...

Chickens: No permit is required for up to 10 chickens. The enclosure must be 30 feet from another person’s house.   Chickens, sheep, other livestock:...

Despite tough economic times, Virginia has taken a strong interest in maintaining its programs for early-childhood education, according to a member of...

Several school divisions in central Virginia are reporting delays tomorrow after this week’s heavy rains and flooding. The following county school...

The Virginia Department of Transportation says motorists this rush hour should proceed carefully because of problems with standing water and downed trees. ...

There’s a twinkle in Lou Caraker’s eyes when he talks about his grandson, Chip. It’s the pride of a warrior seeing family follow in his...

A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student was released from custody yesterday but placed on house arrest for a prank that involved running into an...

A 16-year-old Meadowbrook High School student was released from custody today but placed on house arrest for a prank that involved running into an occupied...

Keri Wormald directed “Well” at the Barksdale Theater at the same time she led her high school students in a production of “Pride and...

A Chesterfield County man was ordered held without bond yesterday after his weekend arrest on charges of raping a woman while posing as a police officer....

Chesterfield County police are searching for a man they believe robbed two SunTrust bank branches, one on Saturday and the other this morning.

Chesterfield County police declined to provide details of an accident yesterday involving a county motorcycle officer. The officer suffered non-life-threatening...

A Chesterfield County man has been charged in Henrico County with impersonating a Richmond police officer and then raping a woman. Johnny Eugene Quick,...

The county is hosting public hearings on the 2009-10 Technology Master Plan and revisions to the School Board’s policy manual.   When: tomorrow...

The Chesterfield County School Board will hold public hearings tomorrow night on the proposed $13 million technology plan and major revisions to the board’s...

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...