A Louisa resident who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old child twice in 2008 has been convicted by a jury that recommended two consecutive life terms plus 15 years.

There’s more sunshine and warm weather in store for the Richmond area today, but that’s about to change. The National Weather Service forecast calls for sunny skies, calm winds and a high of 66 degrees this afternoon. Tomorrow is to be partly sunny with a high near 72 before the rain starts to move in overnight tomorrow. There is a 70 percent chance of rain Thursday, when the high is projected at 67 degrees.

A man was injured this morning in North Richmond when his sport utility vehicle struck a parked car before careening into a vacant house. Richmond police Capt. Mike Snawder said the man was taken to VCU Medical Center for treatment of injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. The incident occurred at 2:25 a.m. in the 1500 block of Laburnum Avenue, just east of the A.P. Hill monument, when the man’s SUV struck a parked car and then veered off the road, across the lawn of a house and slammed into the structure. The SUV became lodged about halfway inside the house, Snawder said.

A Highland Springs man was arrested for allegedly pistol-whipping another man last night in Richmond’s Highland Park neighborhood. Lanaco Roach, 56, of the 400 block of Newbridge Circle was being held on a charge of aggravated assault. Richmond police Capt. Michael Snawder said it was not immediately clear what the motive was for the alleged incident, which occurred at 7:03 p.m. in the 3100 block of Meadowbridge Road.

No injuries were reported in a house fire this morning along Jefferson Davis Highway in Chesterfield County. Chesterfield Fire & EMS Battalion Chief David Throckmorton said the fire was reported shortly after 1 a.m. in the 14300 block of Jeff Davis. Heavy fire was showing by the time the first crews arrived at the single-family structure, which was significantly damaged.

A ranking of Virginia’s most transparent local governments finds most of the Richmond area doing comparatively well at providing information on the Web. In a recent report, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy—a nonpartisan research and education organization in Springfield—scored localities on budget and expenditure information available online.

The search continued yesterday for a missing Virginia Commonwealth University foreign-exchange student who was last seen leaving his dormitory a week ago. Surveillance video captured Jonathan S. Dorey, a 22-year-old exchange student from Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, walking his mountain bike away from Gladding Residence Center last Tuesday at 11:19 a.m.