A former Richmond police officer has been arrested and charged with impersonating a law-enforcement officer when he allegedly pulled over an off-duty cop...

A teenager accused of firing a gun in a Virginia Randolph Community High School parking lot is believed to have targeted three students. Because he allegedly...

Sharon B. Wood admitted to years of alcohol abuse and self-medication efforts even as friends and family testified at her sentencing hearing that, by all...

A Williamsburg man who trolled Web sites dedicated to pedophilia was sentenced Wednesday to 27 years in prison, with all but three years suspended. Henrico...

The Republican incumbent in a hotly contested House of Delegates race in Henrico County is rejecting charges by his challenger that he opposes emergency...

Ashland Farmers’ Market, 101 Thompson St., Ashland, 798-9219. 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through November. Byrd House Market, behind William Byrd Community...

Henrico County police said today a rabid raccoon was confirmed in the Varina area. Officers from the animal protection unit were called on Monday after...

Fewer infants died in Richmond last year than the previous year, and city health officials credit a comprehensive effort involving multiple city agencies...

For the second consecutive year, a record number of Virginia’s public schools have reached full accreditation after passing state tests in math,...

Infant-mortality rates per 1,000 live births, 2008; 2007   Richmond: 10.9; 12.4   Henrico: 10.3; 5.6   Chesterfield: 7.0; 6.4   Virginia:...

Chesterfield County police have identified a man they believe assaulted and robbed a Chinese-food delivery driver last week in Chesterfield. Authorities...

Henrico County school officials locked down the Virginia Randolph Community High School campus yesterday afternoon and police closed area roads after shots...

The Chinese-food deliveryman zipped out of Oak Hill Plaza on Tuesday night carrying two orders from Hunan Gourmet on Mechanicsville Turnpike. Heading east,...

Area farmers markets Ashland Farmers’ Market, 101 Thompson St., Ashland, (804) 798-9219. 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays through November. Byrd House Market,...

Election Day maneuvering is getting into full swing in Henrico County—for November 2011. Former Richmond prosecutor Matthew P. Geary said yesterday...

Henrico Police say today that a skunk found Saturday in a Varina yard tested positive for rabies. An officer with the department’s Animal Protection...

Are criminals targeting local Asian-American merchants and their employees? Alarmed about a series of Chinese-food delivery-driver robberies in recent...

The designation is part of a 20-year agreement signed two years ago in exchange for a one-time state appropriation of almost $2.4 million to help build...

It’s been a busy year for paint entrepreneur Sally Fretwell. And, if things go as planned, it’ll only get busier.

Nearly 50 percent of public school and private school cafeterias in the Richmond area came out of unannounced Virginia Department of Health inspections...