120 had no critical violations during inspections conducted during the 2008-09 school year; and 93 had two or fewer total critical violations for the...

Goochland: $6 million to widen U.S. 250 (Broad Street Road).   Hanover: $4.8 million to replace the bridge over Interstate 95 at Lewistown Road....

The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization has allocated $20.8 million of federal stimulus money to three priority transportation projects in...

The Richmond Area Metropolitan Planning Organization will allocate $20.8 million of federal stimulus money to three transportation projects in Chesterfield,...

A day after President Barack Obama’s televised remarks to students, area school officials yesterday were more supportive of his speech. That was...

Dawn Smythers was shot in the head by her husband, Forrest Smythers Jr., in January. A Louisa County jury yesterday found a 54-year-old man guilty of murdering...

Goochland County authorities are looking for the people responsible for vandalizing a local church and the historic black school on its property but are...

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

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

Reinforcing its interest in a Powhatan County location, Wal-Mart has filed a traffic-impact analysis with the county and the Virginia Department of Transportation....

Shay Perry scored on a three-yard touchdown run, but it wasn’t enough as Dan River defeated Amelia County. Dan River————————————-...

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...

For Charlie Schwenker, flying in a straight line, airliner-style, isn’t for him. He prefers the twisting, turning, gravity-defying moves of aerobatics. ...

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 Goochland County Board of Supervisors has pushed back indefinitely a vote to increase public-utility rates and connection fees. The proposal would...

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...

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

A Louisa County man pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing methamphetamine and cocaine after police found more than 82 grams of both drugs in his car...

Six years after Wal-Mart came to town, Ashland is still Ashland. There’s still a quaint downtown with railroad tracks running down the middle of...