Chesterfield County

A Richmond teenager will spend 45 years behind bars for slashing the throat of a Chesterfield County car wash manager during an October robbery. Chesterfield Circuit Judge Michael Allen sentenced Cameron M. Velez on Monday to three life terms but...

Betsy Slade's sprawling backyard is filled with massive shade trees, flowering beds and bushes, birdhouses and a tiny waterfall perched by a wooden swing. But when she ushers guests outside of her Stratford Hills home, she hustles them past the enticing...

The judge who presided over the trial of sniper mastermind John Muhammad was appointed to the Virginia Supreme Court by Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Friday. The Democrat selected Virginia Court of Appeals Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. to succeed Justice G....

For about a nanosecond Tuesday evening, Ashby Kilgore was jobless. That was the time it took for the School Board to terminate her contract and re-appoint her as district superintendent with a new four-year contract and a raise. The board approved the...

A nonprofit land trust is shutting down and donating $550,000 to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for its programs in Virginia. The funding is the Chesterfield Conservancy's remaining money. Trustee Dan Gecker says the conservancy was established in 2006...

The first female county administrator in Gloucester's history begins work this morning after the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors voted 6-1 on Tuesday night to hire Brenda G. Garton. Garton is a former county administrator for Prince George County....

Teresa Altemus, chairwoman of the Gloucester Board of Supervisors, said Tuesday night that members of the board are "ready, willing and fully able" to cooperate with a special grand jury. Altemus said board members fully cooperated with a January inquiry...

An 18-year-old straight-A student accused of planning to bomb his high school was charged Tuesday with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a possible life sentence. The charge is one of three federal counts Ryan Schallenberger...

A Board of Supervisors "dialogue session" opened Friday night with a surprise announcement: The county has a new interim administrator. Lane Ramsey, who retired as the county administrator in Chesterfield County in August, will start work in Gloucester...

A resolution approving the hiring of Lane Ramsey as interim county administrator and adopting his contract is on the agenda for Tuesday night's Gloucester County Board of Supervisors meeting. The vote on Ramsey will make his hiring official and is the...

Hongwei Xian has spent the past 22 years helping students in China study English and learn about America. Starting in September, she'll take on a different role for a different kind of world. This fall, Xian will teach level-1 Chinese to about 100...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- They seem an unlikely pair -- the courtly Richmond lawyer who can stretch his vowels into next week and the Bronx native who bottles up New York intensity in a voice often so flat and low that the judge reminds him to speak up. These...