The disappearance of Mechanicsville teenager Theresa Marie Meadows languished in relative obscurity from the time she vanished in September 2004—until...

FAIRFAX—Virginia police responding to a report of a theft in progress shot and killed a suspect. Fairfax County police identified the man Saturday...

If carried out, next week’s scheduled execution of Larry Bill Elliott will be by electrocution, the option he selected before his Oct. 5 execution...

Attention was drawn to Virginia this week with the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the state’s 104th person to be executed since the U.S. Supreme...

A Chesterfield County man who had been drinking and smoking marijuana before he fatally struck a teenage girl with his pickup truck—and then drove...

A Richmond jury last night convicted Judy Wright of felony child neglect in the shooting death of her only granddaughter and recommended a two-year sentence,...

A Richmond jury last night convicted Judy Wright of felony child neglect in the shooting death of her only granddaughter and recommended a two-year sentence,...

A McDonald’s restaurant on Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond was robbed at gunpoint this morning for the third time in less than five months....

A man found fatally shot in Petersburg on Wednesday has been identified as Harry Stevenson, 25, who had been staying with friends in Richmond, police said....

A Mechanicsville teenager who vanished more than five years ago was located Wednesday in South Carolina after a Hanover County detective reworked an old...

An 11-year-old Richmond boy who allegedly shot and killed his 5-year-old niece took the stand yesterday in his mother’s felony child-neglect trial....

The last of three former employees charged along with swindler Edward Hugh Okun was sentenced to three years in prison in federal court in Richmond yesterday....

Two small dogs stolen from an Amelia County couple whose home was ransacked by burglars Wednesday were found yesterday about a block away. John Puryear...

A police sketch and a DNA hit have combined to reveal the identity of a 1991 murder victim. Henrico County police say they now need the public’s...

A man found fatally shot in Petersburg yesterday was identified this afternoon as Harry Stevenson, 25, who had been staying with friends in Richmond, police...

Two small dogs stolen from an Amelia County couple whose home was ransacked by burglars were found today about a block away.

A trial date has been set for the owner of a Richmond day-care center where a child was left in a hot van and later died. Valerot Whitlow is to be tried...

Petersburg police are investigating two shootings less than two hours apart that left one man dead and another wounded. Authorities were alerted to the...

Richmond police are asking for help in locating a dark-colored Jeep Wrangler that may have struck a pedestrian Saturday at North Boulevard and Kensington...

Petersburg police are investigating the shooting death of a man who was discovered about 9:30 this morning in the 600 block of Harrison Street. Details...

A trial date has been set for the owner of a Richmond day-care center where a child was left in a hot van and later died. Valerot Whitlow is to be tried...

No injuries were reported late last night in the armed robbery of a convenience store along West Cary Street in Richmond. Richmond police Capt. Scott Booth...

The man who played God with sniper fire seven years ago, ending 10 lives in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, was quietly executed by injection last night....

Here is a selection, from comments made online and by e-mail, of people’s recollections of the anxiety and tensions created by the sniper shootings...

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...

No injuries were reported last night in the armed robbery of a Richmond service station and convenience store. Richmond police Capt. Dave Martin said the...

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....

Blackstone police, with assistance from the Nottoway County Sheriff’s Office and Virginia State Police, are looking for twin brothers in an assault...

John Allen Muhammad’s last hope is a petition before Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. Should Kaine decline to intervene, Muhammad is set to die by injection...