With hurricane season nearing, it is time to stock up on flashlights, batteries, duct tape and perhaps a portable generator.

WASHINGTON — No one answered the tax help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationw

A Virginia State University student could spend 63 years behind bars for conspiring with a fellow student to rip off a Petersburg drug dealer and fatally shooting him several yards from campus in a cr

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The 20-year-old son of a former aide to President George W. Bush and member of the Gilmore administration was arrested in a Washington suburb Friday, accused of killing a man with

Thirty people will lose their jobs at Southside Virginia Training Center today as the state continues to reduce its workforce in preparation for closing the institution for people with intellectual an

Virginia Army National Guard veteran Stephen Adt has changed out the flag that flies year-round in front of his house every Memorial Day for a dozen years. Then with family and friends, he reads an ac

WASHINGTON — Some labor unions that enthusiastically backed President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul are now frustrated and angry, fearful that it will jeopardize benefits for millions of their m

The backyard-chicken debate is spreading its wings in Chesterfield County. At the center of the flap are Fluffy, Tuffy and Rocky, a trio of chickens.

A Hanover woman who allegedly attacked her cancer-victim son with an ax and set fire to the family home is now facing two attempted capital murder charges.

RICHMOND — Police on Friday identified a man who was found shot to death in South Richmond and said they have classified his death as a homicide, the city’s fourth in six days.