BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military yesterday marked the end of its combat mission in Iraq amid a series of conflicting messages that underscored the mixed feelings many here, both American and Iraqi, have toward a 7amp;#189;-year effort that cost tens of thousands of lives but left the political outcome undecided.…

As people trickle in for the midday prayer, some remain from the previous night, living out of sleeping bags in the mosque at the Islamic Center of Virginia in Chesterfield County until the end of Ramadan next week. This is a once-in-a-year opportunity to devote yourself as much as you ...

A greater number of Henrico County students will start classes next week at a school that#39;s different from the one they attended last year. New attendance boundaries go into effect this year, coinciding with Tuesday#39;s opening of two new schools in western Henrico. quot;It should be a smooth process,quot;…

Virginia State Police announced this evening that a trooper was involved in a two-vehicle crash shortly after 10 near Maplewood Avenue and U.S. 360 in Amelia County. quot;The trooper was injured in the crash and was being transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The driver of the other vehicle ...

Delmonte Marquis Burgess has been charged with second-degree murder and faces other counts as well.

Perriello, D-Ivy, has set up an alternate event.

A man has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the early-morning shooting death of a 17-year-old Henrico County youth more than two years ago. In a plea agreement that set punishment at eight years, Henrico prosecutors gained a conviction last month in a case troubled by uncertain witnesses, the…