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...

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...

The son of Henrico County’s chief prosecutor will serve a jail term for underage possession of alcohol but escaped a felony charge yesterday of malicious...

Patrick Russo looked around his first convocation as Henrico County’s school superintendent yesterday morning, and what he saw was a sea of leaders...

A birthday party, a credit-card purchase and gang rivalry have doomed the leadership of a gang operating in the Richmond area. In brief hearings yesterday...

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

Richmond police arrested 21 women and 10 men in four citywide prostitution stings over eight days. The operations were conducted along Chamberlayne Avenue,...

Andi Kuhn is counting on the growth of eastern Henrico County to help pay for a toll road that her Australian-based company runs for Virginia. Right now,...

The vehicles were lined up throughout the complex, the early-afternoon sun reflecting off chrome bumpers and gleaming paint jobs. People meandered through...

If it’s 1 a.m., you’ve just landed at the airport and you’re hungry because your flight didn’t have food, your options in eastern...

Leaving one school for another is hard, even if it’s the natural progression from elementary to middle to high school. For 811 students in Henrico...