Two men were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the fatal beating of one man and for beating another man nearly to death the same day in South Richmond....

Chesterfield County police arrested a 16-year-old male student after a prank involving a wooden rifle prop at Meadowbrook High School. Shortly before 1...

If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway Sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution.

A Lee-Davis High School student faces possible life in prison if convicted of an ax attack on a fellow student. Hanover Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramon...

Richmond City Councilman E. Martin Jewell faces the likelihood of brief jail time if convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol. Jewell, who spent...

A Petersburg father has been charged with severely injuring his 4-month-old daughter, who was scalded over the weekend during a bath. Jeffery Morris, 25,...

A Hopewell man surrendered to police yesterday in Friday’s fatal shooting of an acquaintance in Prince George County. Robert Edward Moore, 30, turned...

Police said that a pickup truck involved in a serious hit-and-run Sunday night may be missing part of a plastic bug deflector across the hood.

Prince George County police say that a man sought in connection with a slaying Friday turned himself in this morning.

Six people were robbed and one car was stolen in two robberies and a carjacking last night and early today in Richmond. No injuries were reported in any...

Richmond police are looking for a black pickup truck believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run yesterday in Shockoe Bottom. Police said the truck...

Two teenagers have been charged in a recent string of smash-and-grab commercial break-ins along Chesterfield County’s Hull Street Road corridor that...

Chesterfield County police are investigating the thefts of 34 catalytic converters that were cut from new vehicles at two Chester car dealerships. The...

The FBI has joined the search for a Virginia Tech student missing since she became separated from her friends at a Metallica concert Oct. 17. Virginia...

A candidate for Petersburg sheriff was arrested yesterday on a misdemeanor charge of committing voter fraud in last November’s election. Troy Bernard...

Lawyers for Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad have asked Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to spare his life because the Persian Gulf War veteran suffers from mental...

A Prince George County man was found fatally shot early yesterday in the driveway of his sister’s home, police said. The body of the victim, identified...

A Colonial Heights woman has pleaded guilty to killing one man and severely injuring another after colliding head-on with their mo-ped while intoxicated...

Chesterfield County police are investigating the thefts of 34 catalytic converters that were cut from new vehicles at two Chester car dealerships. The...

A baby girl found abandoned in a Chesterfield County neighborhood Monday may be as old as three weeks and could have been delivered at a medical facility,...

Virginia State Police have launched a statewide investigation into possible illegal voting by felons in last November’s election. However, state...

Space could be tight in Virginia’s death house Nov. 10, with victims’ family members seeking to attend the execution of Beltway sniper John...

A nanny sought by Henrico County police after she was charged with stealing money from a piggy bank belonging to a child in her care has been arrested...

Richmond police are looking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects in last week’s armed robbery of the Modern Coin Co. downtown....

Richmond police have arrested an East End man in last week’s robbery of the Wachovia bank branch at 1800 Chamberlayne Ave. Charles E. McCall, 46,...

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has denied a clemency request by a convicted child molester whose accuser recanted her testimony. George Somerville, a Richmond attorney...

A Richmond woman charged with swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a program for severely disabled children pleaded not guilty yesterday in...

Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 3100 block...

A Louisa County woman linked to three mysterious deaths beginning with that of her second husband 15 years ago pleaded guilty yesterday to dumping her...

Two Henrico County students were arrested yesterday after a fight on a school bus that spilled into the street and a resident’s yard and involved...