Today’s scheduled sentencing of former gang member Detavis J. King for the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield County teenager Ryan Matko is to be delayed...

Richmond police are investigating the robbery of a Texaco station on the 4300 block of Jefferson Davis Highway yesterday.

A Colonial Heights jury has convicted two men in a violent attack in a home during which their five young victims were tied up naked on the floor with...

Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr. issued a statement today saying a sexual battery allegation against him is fabricated and without merit.

Richmond police today are continuing to investigate an exchange of gunfire while serving a search warrant in the city’s East End last night.

Richmond police are investigating the armed robbery of a man who was shot and wounded last night in the 2000 block of Mechanicsville Turnpike.

Next week’s scheduled sentencing of former gang member Detavis J. King for the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield County teenager Ryan Matko will be delayed...

A special prosecutor has been assigned to investigate an allegation of sexual battery made against Richmond Sheriff C.T. Woody, a law-enforcement official...

The man charged in Waynesboro’s largest bust for illegal mushrooms pleaded guilty this week in Circuit Court to possessing and distributing the psychedelic...

Henrico County authorities revealed yesterday that a series of beatings earlier this year in the western part of the county were linked to gang initiation...

Death-row inmate Larry Bill Elliott was executed last night for the 2001 murder of Dana Thrall of Prince William County. Elliott, 60, a former Army intelligence...

J.R. Tucker High School’s former football coach pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of taking indecent liberties with two teenage students....

Two Richmond women who shopped while the young children under their care slept in a parked car—at 1 a.m.—have received a writing assignment...

A Petersburg man has been sentenced to serve 13 years in prison for fatally shooting his mother’s neighbor in the back during a trifling disagreement...

Two men were taken to a hospital for treatment after a pair of shootings barely an hour and a few blocks apart Monday night near McGuire Veterans Affairs...

A Petersburg man was arrested yesterday about 25 minutes after police said he set a former co-worker on fire and then fled on a public bus. The 35-year-old...

Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 500 block...

A Petersburg man was arrested today about 25 minutes after police say he set a former co-worker on fire and then fled on a public bus. The victim, who...

The former head football coach at J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico County pleaded guilty this morning to three counts of taking indecent liberties with...

Henrico County police are looking for a 9-year-old boy who has been missing for more than a month and may have been abducted by his mother. Lt. Eric D....

A man was taken to VCU Medical Center after being stabbed in the chest on a downtown Richmond street late last night. Richmond police Capt. Paul Kiniry...

Two men were taken to a hospital for treatment after a pair of shootings barely an hour and a few blocks apart last night near McGuire Veterans Affairs...

The authority of Virginia’s juvenile-court judges is being usurped by prosecutors and higher courts in a process that too often mixes juvenile offenders...

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to block the execution of a Maryland man who was convicted of gunning down a Northern Virginia couple to win the...

A Richmond judge sentenced a man to 30 years in prison yesterday for a drug charge, refusing the defendant’s impassioned plea that the judge reduce...

A Richmond judge sentenced a drug dealer to 30 years in prison today, refusing to suspend any of the sentence recommended by a jury. The sentence imposed...

Following is a summary of some burglary reports made to police recently in Richmond and in Chesterfield and Henrico counties. RICHMOND POLICE 2500 block...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP)—Newport News police say a shooting has left one woman dead and another person in the hospital. The 42-year-old woman and 29-year-old...

There are homicides, and there are failed homicides. Sometimes the difference between life and death depends on the shooter’s aim and whether a bullet...

A Richmond man was acquitted Thursday of charges related to a shooting last spring on Chamberlayne Avenue in the city. After deliberating about an hour,...