CELEBRATING FATHERHOOD From his perch just beyond the top row of the Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, Michael J. Jones could keep one...

Jonathan Axselle puts in too many hours at work with his father to hang out with his friends very much. “I’ve always enjoyed working,“...

As far as Al Lacy knew, he had no skills in dealing with children because he’d never had any, so he wasn’t keen on the idea of tutoring at...

Law-enforcement officials are blaming drugs and the economy for a spike in homicides this year in Richmond. City police have recorded 27 slayings this...

They came, they saw, they ate healthy. Herbivores mingled peacefully with omnivores in the azalea gardens at Richmond’s Bryan Park, flaunting their...

Juneteenth was marked with music, storytelling and a torch-lit walk on Richmond’s slave trail yesterday. The observance celebrates the end of slavery,...

Tayvon Simpson, 17, sat on a stone wall in the blazing heat yesterday waiting for a three-on-three basketball game to get going. People milled around him,...

Richmond may have to come up with another way to improve traffic safety and flow around the A.P. Hill Monument on the city’s North Side. Officials...

The nonmarital birth rate has been increasing steadily in the past 25 years 21 percent of nonmarital births are to women 19 or younger The nonmarital...

The nonmarital birth rate has been increasing steadily in the past 25 years 21 percent of nonmarital births are to women 19 or younger The nonmarital...

Before celebrating Father’s Day, consider this sobering statistic: Out-of-wedlock births have risen steadily since the early 1960s, from less than...

Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford made his first and last appearance in federal court in Richmond yesterday, requesting a detention hearing in Houston...

Robinson Morris A mother and son were arrested yesterday on dogfighting and animal cruelty charges days after 11 dogs were seized from their home in South...

European Union Ambassador John Bruton came to Richmond yesterday to share something new that the 27 EU nations have learned: Sometimes, letting foreigners...

Police believe Larry Donnell Starks, 26, of Disputanta is involved in at least four robberies. Chesterfield County police have arrested a Disputanta man...

A man was being held yesterday on a malicious wounding charge for allegedly beating someone repeatedly with a meat-tenderizing hammer at a South Richmond...

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

Battered by the recession, Virginia’s highway and transit programs have shrunk by one-third in two years. “We’re back to basics,“...

The place where the Civil War came to an end is where the Museum of the Confederacy intends to begin sharing what it calls the world’s most extensive...

A Richmond man will serve 21 years in prison for fatally shooting another man last year in a backyard in South Richmond. Rashawn Lamont Brown, 28, entered...