A veteran Powhatan County teacher who in the past has overcome a stroke and sometimes must use a wheelchair is severely injured and lost virtually all her belongings last week in a brutal beating.

Soon they will be laying eggs

Sen. John C. Watkins says the commission should be an executive branch function.

Richmond-area volunteers may work for different organizations and their passions may vary, but they also have much in common, audience members at the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Public Square agreed Monday.

One of two teenagers accused in the robbery and killing of a customer inside a gas station in South Richmond will be released from custody but still could be indicted on the same charges, authorities said after a court hearing Monday.

Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones and every member of the City Council face re-election this year, but the campaign trail is quiet outside of the 5th District.

The mother of twin 3-year-old girls killed Saturday in a murder-suicide had complained in Hanover County court documents of abuse by her husband and alleged he was mentally unstable.

Harry Black, who was the center of political brawling between then-Mayor L. Douglas Wilder and the Richmond City Council five years ago, is heading back to his native Baltimore to serve as finance director under Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

S. Richmond fire being investigated as arson

As of 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 19, there were 90,360 people in the United States in need of a kidney transplant.