Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia)

Early results from a facilities cost and demographic study indicate the Southern Lehigh School District may have to pony up as much as $14 million to renovate two of the district's three elementary schools. While the formal presentation is yet to be...

HAMPTON — A Hampton woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying from the witness stand at a Hampton trial five years ago, which led to a man spending nearly four years of his life wrongfully imprisoned. Elizabeth Paige Coast, 23, had been charged with...

David Berdan doesn't get many opportunities to have his family watch him run. He didn't make them wait long to see him at the finish line Sunday. Berdan, a 1999 Delaware Valley High School graduate, won the Run for the Red Marathon with a winning time...

With a guilty verdict recently handed down in the Jodi Arias trial and the penalty phase expected to wrap up soon, many across the nation are breathing a sigh of relief that the seemingly nonstop coverage of this case will soon be over. For others,...

This past week, on a day marked by occasional spitting rain and overcast skies, nearly four dozen Butler Junior High School students traveled to Thorn Creek in Butler County. Unlike anglers who go to the water looking for trout, they were taking their...

CORSICANACORSICANA -- May 15 to July 31 The Navarro Council of the arts presents "With Six You Get Eggrolls" A Fine Art Exhibit featuring the works of Helen Albritton, Barbara Jones, Gladys Espenson, Deb Miller, Stephanie Ford, and Margie Taylor at...

The Randolph County Board of Education will address topics pertaining to summer programs and the 2013-14 school year at its regular meeting on Monday. It's also scheduled to re-address a revised policy regarding drug and alcohol testing of student...

Mike Merrick's trip from Washington to his home in Raleigh, N.C., normally takes about 3 hours, 45 minutes. Not so on Friday, after a tractor �trailer crash and hazardous-materials spill on southbound Interstate 95 caused massive congestion on...

Federal prosecutors announced Friday they will not seek the death penalty against a 50-year-old Suffolk man charged with conspiring to retaliate against witnesses, resulting in the shooting death of one man and the wounding of two others. If convicted,...

Tony Zevgolis had his own way of ending up on stage Friday night: a dare that turned into a singing career. And after he sang a rendition of "My Way," a panel of four judges crowned Zevgolis the 2013 Senior Idol winner by The Shepherd's Center of...

When Lawrence Lewis Jr., Charles City County officials and several state departments planned a park along the James River in the early 1990s, they wanted to top it off with a free public boat ramp -- the only one on a 36-mile stretch between Henrico and...

On Tuesday, the town council came close to approving this resolution against a state police firearms traning facility in the Meshomasic State Forest. The following is the text of the resolution that was read, but never voted on since the state...