Two men were taken to a hospital for treatment after a pair of shootings barely an hour and a few blocks apart Monday night near McGuire Veterans Affairs...

Sheila Johnson, the Democratic businesswoman who endorsed Republican Bob McDonnell in the governor’s race this year will serve as one his inaugural...

With as much as $175 million potentially burning a hole in its collective pocket, the Richmond School Board voted 6-1 last night to include seven schools...

A Richmond judge sentenced a man to 30 years in prison yesterday for a drug charge, refusing the defendant’s impassioned plea that the judge reduce...

A Richmond judge sentenced a drug dealer to 30 years in prison today, refusing to suspend any of the sentence recommended by a jury. The sentence imposed...

When Anthony Scott took interim control of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority in 2006, departing Executive Director Sheila Hill-Christian...

The Richmond Christmas Mother program was launched 75 years ago when The Times-Dispatch Goodfellows Club and The News Leader Neediest Family fund joined...

Two child-abuse prevention organizations in the Richmond area are merging this month. Greater Richmond SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now) and Richmond CASA (Court...

Alice Goodwin has been instrumental in donating millions to help others during the four-plus decades she has lived in Richmond. Now that she has been named...

There are homicides, and there are failed homicides. Sometimes the difference between life and death depends on the shooter’s aim and whether a bullet...

A Richmond man was acquitted Thursday of charges related to a shooting last spring on Chamberlayne Avenue in the city. After deliberating about an hour,...

The disappearance of Mechanicsville teenager Theresa Marie Meadows languished in relative obscurity from the time she vanished in September 2004—until...

When it comes to total science output, the U.S. ranks among the top in the world. “The United States is good and fat, chubby even,“ scientist...

A Chesterfield County man who had been drinking and smoking marijuana before he fatally struck a teenage girl with his pickup truck—and then drove...

A Richmond jury last night convicted Judy Wright of felony child neglect in the shooting death of her only granddaughter and recommended a two-year sentence,...

A Richmond jury last night convicted Judy Wright of felony child neglect in the shooting death of her only granddaughter and recommended a two-year sentence,...

Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc. has expanded its line of prepared foods to include several oven-ready, family-sized options aimed at working families....

The state’s community colleges will increase tuition for next semester, and Virginia Commonwealth University plans to eliminate 91 jobs as the schools...

PETERSBURG Dana Ballenger brought home two baby doll sheep and gave them good Southern names, Jezabell and Thelma Lou. She checked first with city authorities...

Swine flu appears to have been cut in half in Virginia. About 8 percent of people visiting emergency rooms across the state reported flulike illness, down...