Six parents involved with the Ashland Youth Recreation Association Inc. have filed a lawsuit against the organization’s officers, directors and commissioners...

The message yesterday was simple, and the kids seemed to get it: President Barack Obama implored the nation’s schoolchildren to take charge of their...

Dreary weather notwithstanding, students packed up and headed off to the first day of the new school year in the Richmond region today. it was a great...

Kemon McEachern is walking into Albert Hill Middle School today with a new pair of Adidas shoes—a thought that brought tears of joy to his grandmother,...

When President Barack Obama urges America’s students today to “write your own destiny” by working hard in school, thousands of students...

The following was posted on the White House Web site today: Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event, Arlington, Sept. 8, 2009 The...

WASHINGTON (AP)—President Barack Obama plans to tell the nation’s school children that they ultimately are most responsible for their own education....

It looks like an inside day—and week—for most of central Virginia. The National Weather Service says showers are likely during a mostly cloudy...

The Richmond school system eliminated half of its funding for field trips. The Hanover County schools cut an elementary school strings program. The Chesterfield...

The school year starts Tuesday without a single new school opening in the city of Richmond or the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico. While...

What Jerrianne Hayslett saw behind the scenes of the O.J. Simpson trial and what the media presented were often two different things. As the media liaison...

Two more Richmond-area school divisions have changed their plans for Tuesday’s daytime presidential address. Hanover County sent e-mail notices and...

What? Parents are protesting an American president’s message that their children study hard and stay in school? Some school systems, cowed by grumbling...

6 million Muslims in America. The Muslim community in America is made up of people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and national origins. In...

A large controlled burn in Hanover County today caused smoke to drift into parts of Henrico County. Authorities received numerous reports of smoke in western...

The controversy over President Barack Obama’s plan to address the nation’s schoolchildren Tuesday—during a noon broadcast from an Arlington...

An Ashland man was killed early this morning when the SUV he was driving on Interstate 95 ran off the left side of the highway and struck a guardrail partially...

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama will deliver a back-to-school address to the nation’s students about taking responsibility for their success in...

The U.S. Postal Service has narrowed the number of offices facing possible closure to 413, and six Richmond-area branches that had been on the list now...

Roadside fruit and vegetable stands stocked with plump, juicy tomatoes? Check. Cornfields, horse farms and rural vistas? Check. Panhandlers standing in...