OK, I’ll admit it. I’ve started reading the obituaries. I’ve always thought reading the obituaries was for old people looking to see...

In the court of public opinion, at least 3,500 females in central Virginia have forgiven Chris Brown. They roared. They cried. They rushed the stage. And...

In Henrico County schools last year, African-American students made up 36 percent of the enrollment and 7 percent of the children who received gifted education....

After being stalled for two years, Richmond’s plan to build schools is now being treated as an emergency. Today, the City Council will consider bypassing...

So what do tattooers do when they aren’t injecting colorful inks into human skin? Judging by last year’s “Drawing Blood” and its...

Public schools may not look the same next fall, two months after Virginia begins a new budget year. Class sizes could grow as large as state law allows....

In hopes of providing alternatives to incarceration, Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones and other officials traveled here last week to tour a former Flav-O-Rich...

Whenever she passes through the Brook Road gates onto the campus of St. Joseph’s Villa in Henrico County, Betty Taylor Martin feels like she is going...

Archibald Harnamsingh Benson came to the United States from India in 1955 as a student armed with a quick intelligence and a strong will to succeed. The...

On a crisp fall day recently in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood, laughter rang out from inside the Linwood Robinson Senior Center on North 26th...

The International Hospital for Children’s “Treasures in Paradise” fifth annual benefit on Nov. 13 raised more than $500,000 for the Richmond-based...

Elaine Odell cruised through Richmond’s Union Hill neighborhood, pointing out newly renovated Queen Anneand federal-style homes. Along the way, she...

After decades as the Richmond-area’s fastest-growing localities, Chesterfield and Henrico counties are seeing development interest wane. Chesterfield,...

Chunks of Richmond’s history are being unearthed on East Cary Street. Yesterday afternoon, volunteers began lifting sections of asphalt in front...

Aprocession of women marched down Franklin Street yesterday morning to a spot where 100 years ago, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was born. Led...

After spending a year exploring the James River, Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Rex Springston and photographer P. Kevin Morley have collaborated on...

The special prosecutor investigating an allegation of sexual battery made against Richmond’s sheriff plans to complete the inquiry by early next...

More than 100 people gathered outside the downtown Richmond offices of Sens. Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner today to protest the proposed health care plans...

Next week’s scheduled sentencing of former gang member Detavis J. King for the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield County teenager Ryan Matko will be delayed...

Joey Monroe calls himself a survivor. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran has survived since August without a permanent roof over his head, and he understands...