Today’s scheduled sentencing of former gang member Detavis J. King for the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield County teenager Ryan Matko is to be delayed for several months as his defense attorney seeks to have guilty verdicts set aside.

A 20-year-old Seventh-day Adventist student missionary from Virginia was found murdered on the Pacific island of Yap after going jogging near the school where she was teaching.

A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was expected in court Friday, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days.

A gunman killed a Russian Orthodox priest in his Moscow church and seriously wounded the reverend’s assistant, officials said Friday.

Petersburg police are investigating the shooting death of a man who was discovered about 9:30 this morning in the 600 block of Harrison Street. Details were not immediately available. Police also reported that another person suffering from a gunshot wound arrived at Southside Regional Medical Center about 7:40 a.m. Esther Hyatt, a police spokeswoman, said she had no immediate information about whether the two shootings are related.

A Norfolk man whose infant daughter died from starvation will spend 15 years in prison.

Britain’s Foreign Office says a suspect in the murder of British teacher Lindsay Hawker has been arrested by Japanese police.

South Carolina authorities say three people are dead and five more have been hurt in a shooting in a small town about 40 miles west of Charleston.

“Just get a doctor over here!“ the desperate 10-year-old boy begs a 911 operator. “Please hurry up. It looks like he’s dying.“

A man accused of killing a popular Arkansas television personality is going on trial.

Authorities in Ohio now confirm six bodies were found in the home of a rape suspect arrested Saturday.

If executed as scheduled Nov. 10, condemned Beltway sniper John Allen Muhammad will die by lethal injection, not electrocution. Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said yesterday that Muhammad, 48, declined to choose between either means of execution. In such cases, the default method is lethal injection.

Two Highland Springs men face sentencing in January after pleading guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Wazira Harris. Harris, an 18-year-old senior at Highland Springs High School, died of a bullet to the back April 27 after a large group of youths started fighting and shooting in the 300 block of East Beal Street a few blocks from the high school.

Prince George County police say that a man sought in connection with a slaying Friday turned himself in this morning.

A murder defendant’s changing story to police managed to place him at the scene of a drive-by shooting and narrow the number of unsolved cases in one of the region’s most crime-ridden areas. A Henrico County jury Thursday night returned a first-degree murder conviction and recommended a life sentence for Lamar D. Jordan, 26. Jordan, of no fixed address but familiar to law-enforcement officers because of his red Acura sedan, told police that the gunfire that killed 21-year-old Rayvell B. Fitzgerald on Nov. 7 in the Essex Village apartment complex likely was meant for him.