VIRGINIA BEACH Police Officer Dolly Deans has 215 large-view peepholes, and she's racing to install them in doors all over the city. Her goal as senior coordinator for the Police Department's Crime Prevention Unit is to make the city's senior citizens safer.

A Central State Hospital patient has been identified by state police as a suspect in last month’s slaying of another patient, who was found strangled in his room, court papers say. Armed with a search warrant, investigators obtained a DNA sample from patient George G. Phillips II, 31, to compare…

Police are asking for the public's help in seeking a man who robbed a Country Inn Suites, a hotel at 1069 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., on March 3 at 7:19 p.m. Surveillance video shows the man walking behind the counter, threatening the clerk, flashing a gun and demanding money. The clerk tells him the business…

Authorities are permanently closing the nearest parking lot to the Old Rag Mountain trailhead in Shenandoah National Park.

School rolls out red carpet for Miss America

HARRISONBURG - The alleged serial bank robber accused of holding up a Harrisonburg SunTrust branch made his first appearance Thursday in a Syracuse, N.Y., federal court on a charge he violated conditions of his supervised release.

Three new assistants have begun working in the commonwealth’s attorney office in Danville

The list of candidates for the president’s job at Virginia Highlands Community College has been narrowed to three, and all are scheduled to visit the campus in the next two weeks.

The time has come for all of us fortunate enough to be American citizens, young or old, rich or poor, Southern (the luckiest of Americans) or otherwise, regardless of race creed or color. It is time to buy American. I know we hear this constantly. Though it sometimes seems like a “Big Business” advertising…

SALISBURY -- The city has until next Thursday to give the Wicomico County Library Board of Trustees a business proposal for the sale of Parking Lot 1.

On Saturday, March 20, Patrick Henry High School will start celebrating a significant anniversary with a “Fifty Years of Excellence Ceremony”