Franklin (Franklin, Virginia)

W. Parker Councill once prosecuted a man who murdered his girlfriend and set the apartment complex on fire to cover it up. There was also a double homicide in 1998 that left two cousins dead. And a robbery in which a clerk was left for dead that led to...

A look at where Long Island high school seniors will be headed next fall. This list is made of student-athletes who have signed national letters of intent and verbal commitments that are made official once the student signs a letter of intent. To submit...

Storms ripped through Virginia late Thursday and early Friday, damaging homes in Stafford County and causing minor flooding other areas. Between 75 to 100 homes in a south Stafford County subdivision were damaged, about 30 of them severely, during a...

Authorities say the men who died in a Chesterfield County plane crash Sunday were a father and his son. Joseph Anthony Grana Junior of Florham Park, New Jersey, was the pilot of the 2000 single-engine Mooney aicraft that crashed into a house Sunday...

Testing of the early warning siren system around the Surry Power Station is set for March 12. A steady three-minute tone will be sounded by 68 sirens in Williamsburg and Newport News and the counties of Surry, James City, York and Isle of Wight. The...

The sub-prime mortgage crisis and worsening credit card debt are only intensifying a longer-term trend of economic distress for most Americans. This reversal of fortune, which began in the 1970s, includes dwindling prospects for good employment, severe...

South Los Angeles activist Virginia Franklin wept before Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday, recalling how her mother, a psychiatric nursing professor, would bring her students to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center to train. Holding her 5-...

Ruth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, who supported her famous husband as he ministered to millions but whose approach to life dispelled the notion of the demure preacher's wife, died Thursday afternoon. She was 87. Mrs. Graham died at her...

Ruth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, who supported her famous husband as he spread the Gospel to millions but dispelled the notion of the demure preacher's wife with her humor, spunk, poetry-writing and motorcycle riding, died Thursday at her...

RESULTS FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 28 Boys basketball Junius Kellogg Memorial Classic Championship (in New York City) WARWICK 61, CAMPUS MAGNET (N.Y.) 50 WARWICK (3-6): Grimes 12, Webb 6, Lewis 4, Rankin 18, Wooten 11, Conley 8, Newsome 2. Totals 23 7-10 61....