A murder defendant’s changing story to police managed to place him at the scene of a drive-by shooting and narrow the number of unsolved cases in...

HOPEWELL—Rontel Taylor’s decision to change his hairstyle last week effectively caused a mistrial yesterday in his murder case. As jurors in...

A circuit judge declared a mistrial today in the murder case of Rontel Taylor, who had been on trial two days for the slaying of Alfonzo “Fonz”...

David Ray Worsham, a shy man who never passed fifth grade, was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for killing his 83-year-old mother. Richmond Circuit...

Three 17-year-old classmates pointed to Nicholas Moore yesterday, identifying him as the teenage gunman who fired as many as five rounds at close range...

Circumstantial evidence from 25 witnesses over two days convinced a Henrico County jury yesterday that a drive-by shooting in Essex Village apartments...

Richmond police were working yesterday to solve a bold daylight robbery of an estimated $350,000 worth of merchandise that ranks among the largest jewelry...

A woman linked to three mysterious deaths will plead guilty next week to discarding her boyfriend’s body in a well on his property in Louisa County,...

A judge sentenced a Richmond man to 30 years in prison today for strangling his 83-year-old mother. Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley B. Cavedo sentenced...

A woman linked to three mysterious deaths will plead guilty next week to discarding her boyfriend’s body in a well on his property in Louisa County,...

A Henrico juvenile and domestic relations judge ruled that Nicholas Moore, now 17, will stand trial as an adult in a case stemming from a lunchtime, playground...

No injuries were reported in the robbery of a man outside his home in the River’s Bend community of Chesterfield County late last night. Chesterfield...

A fugitive whom police tracked back and forth from Richmond to Surry County in recent days was apprehended in Surry and charged in the fatal shootings...

A Henrico County man who downloaded graphic sexual images of children from sites being monitored by federal and state investigators will serve three years...

A veteran hospital system employee and manager will serve almost as much time in jail as she did embezzling from the Bon Secours Richmond Health System....

Henrico County reopened Three Lakes Park yesterday morning after repairing damage by vandals who defaced the park with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti....

Authorities yesterday arrested a man in Surry County in connection with Sunday’s slaying of two Petersburg men in the Arlington Heights area of Hopewell....

No injuries were reported in the armed robbery of a downtown Richmond coin dealer today. The robbery was reported shortly after noon at Modern Coin Inc....

Richmond police were searching for a suspect in this morning’s robbery of a Wachovia bank branch. No injuries were reported in the robbery, which...

Henrico County reopened Three Lakes Park this morning after repairing damage by vandals who defaced the property with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti. ...

A Richmond man was convicted yesterday of severely injuring his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter. Demontrell Hurdle, 23, pleaded guilty to felony...

Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 3200 block...

The other suspect in a Sept. 27 nonfatal shooting turned himself in to Richmond police this afternoon. Chazaray D. Moseley, 20, of the 6500 block of Balsam...

A McDonald’s restaurant in South Richmond was robbed at gunpoint last night for the second time in less than four months. No shots were fired and...

Hopewell police are investigating the city’s third and fourth homicides of the year with the double slaying of two Petersburg men found shot to death...

Peter Marone, director of the Virginia Department of Forensic Science, has been recognized by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors for managerial...

Richmond police are still looking for a man who shot a woman and a boy with a shotgun in September after a third person surrendered to police today. Chazaray...

Chesterfield police have arrested a woman whose boyfriend was stabbed in their home yesterday. Jayme M. Williams, 22, of the 7000 block of Wentworth Street,...

A Chesterfield County man helped assure his own capture by overdosing on drugs he allegedly stole from his neighborhood pharmacy. Chesterfield police said...

Police in Hopewell are investigating the shooting deaths of two Petersburg men. The victims were found last night in a vehicle. They have been identified...