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

A Chinese-food delivery driver was ambushed and seriously wounded yesterday in a robbery outside a church in Chesterfield County, marking the third attack...

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...

A year ago, the jobless rate topped 6 percent for the first time in five years, but the peril posed by Tropical Storm Hanna received more attention. We...

On the last weekend before school starts, Kevin Spicer went shopping. He wasn’t looking for last-minute school supplies for his 12-year-old son Michael,...

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...

From disaster came an ambitious idea. And from that idea came a festival that has steadily become one of the area’s premier family events. The Family...

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...

In 1934, his parents sent 14-year-old Fredric Max “Fritz” Schwenk from his native Germany to live with an uncle on Staten Island, N.Y., to...

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...

On the first day he walked into Henrico County’s Mills Godwin High School as a ninth-grader, Jordan Kocen met everyone he expected he would and at...

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

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

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

Virginians may be settling in for fall instead of planning to travel for Labor Day. A little more than 1 million Virginians are expected to take a trip...

Nearly a week after a naked newborn was found on the front lawn of a house in eastern Henrico County, the identity and whereabouts of the parents remained...