The new school year was fast approaching and Sam Peters was still organizing his classroom. In his case, it couldn#39;t be helped.

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 ...

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;…

Two young men pleaded guilty to multiple charges of burglary and grand larceny in Louisa County for crimes that prosecutors said were attempts to gain ranking with a street gang. Damon Riddick, 19, of Mineral, and Brandon Brown, 19, who has a county address, pleaded guilty yesterday to four counts ...

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,…

New figures add up to bad news for most of Central Virginia.

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.…