Jarratt News

It was a quiet and somber event. So still, Dena Potter, Associated Press reporter and media witness, told the AFRO, that the sound of a stomach growling among the witnesses was clearly heard.

Virginia inmate Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006.

Democratic leaders in the House hope to craft a jobs bill. Job-creating ideas include additional help for small business, more road and bridge spending and extending business tax breaks slated to expire at the end of the year.

Though Larry "Bill" Elliott was put to death by way of the electric chair Tuesday night, the father of one of Elliott's two victims maintains the convicted murderer was innocent.

The Jarratt Volunteer Fire Department in Sussex County is a recipient of a 2009 Georgia-Pacific Bucket Brigade grant.

Larry Bill Elliott was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. at Greensville Correctional Center.

A former Army counterintelligence worker from Maryland is set to die by electrocution unless Gov.

"Let s call it [the death penalty] by its real name...and recognize it for what it is--vengeance!" - Albert Camus The state of Virginia, on Nov.

It's a weird feeling, waiting for a man to die. A cold rain began to fall near midnight Tuesday, when I left The News-Post building.

Unless Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine steps in, sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad will be executed for the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation's capital region for three weeks in October 2002.

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NATO says the body of one of two U.S. soldiers who went missing last week in western Afghanistan has been found by military divers.

A roadblock restricts access to the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., south of Richmond, where the execution of Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad will take place on Tuesday, Nov.

JARRATT, Va. - Sniper John Allen Muhammad is meeting with relatives in the hours before his execution and one of his attorneys described the convicted killer as fearless.

Loading... John Allen Muhammad, who in 2002 targeted Americans still reeling from 9/11, is to be executed this week.

D.C. area sniper John Allen Muhammad is set to be executed in just four days by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia.

A lethal injection table at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia in the US.

The father of a 3-year-old boy who drowned at Gloucester Point Beach on July 4 has been jailed on felony child neglect charges.

A boy who drowned on Saturday in the York River at Gloucester Point Beach has been identified as Brian Flores, of Jarratt, Va., a small town near Emporia in the southeast part of the state.