The 6-year-old witness, Jada Rogers, entered the courtroom sucking her thumb. She stood with her hands behind her back, fidgeting, as Richmond Circuit Judge Theodore J. Markow asked if she knew what it means to tell the truth. People who lie, she told the judge, go to jail. On the ...

Washington and Lee University freshman Norris Laffitte was emptying a box at William Byrd Community House when Jessica Turner spied an old carnival banner. quot;I was looking for that,quot; said Turner, the community relations coordinator for Byrd House, as she picked up the banner. Laffitte, of Columbia,…

RICHMOND, VA -- Congressional elections will set the stage for redistricting, a fierce partisan tug of war over money and clout.

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. quot;This is a once-in-a-year opportunity to devote yourself as much as you ...

A man wanted in the June shooting death of a 22-year-old Petersburg resident was arrested yesterday by members of the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force. Alphelious Alphelus Jones, 21, whose last known address was in Dinwiddie County, was arrested without incident about 12:45 p.m. as he was standing…

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

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