Petersburg News

Vernon and Opal Davis sat comfortably on Thursday afternoon in the living room of their charming mountain-surrounded home of more than half a century.

The mass shootings at Fort Hood in Texas is not prompting any immediate security changes at most military installations in Virginia.

The School Board discussed the possible implications and impact of a clause in the new Memorandum of Understanding with the Virginia Department of Education.

After a campaign that featured accusations of misconduct and the arrest of her opponent for voter fraud, Sheriff Vanessa R. Crawford was re-elected Tuesday by a more than three-to-one margin.

Commissioner of Revenue Majorie DeDanko weathered last-minute campaign controversies to be re-elected to a second term in an election rematch with her opponent, Gayle Braswell.

Schools throughout the Tri-Cities have seen an increase in student absences, but the number of children ill with the swine flu appears to have crested in mid-October. In Petersburg and Dinwiddie County, absences spiked in mid-October but have stabilized - although some weeks have seen more absences than normal.

As a triathlete, Mary Beth Mohan crosses a lot of finish lines. Not many of them in a cat costume, though.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Residents of the Tri-Cities have few contested races for delegates to the General Assembly.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Rebuilding Together*Petersburg's main program is Rebuilding Days, which is neighborhood-based and involves volunteer teams repairing between 12 and 15 houses as well as a community center project.

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," October 20, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

A Petersburg father has been charged with severely injuring his 4-month-old daughter, who was scalded over the weekend during a bath.

Here are contested races in Hopewell, Petersburg and Colonial Heights on Nov. 3. Hopewell A new city resident is challenging incumbent Anthony N. "Nino" Sylvester in the race for commonwealth's attorney.

A candidate for Petersburg sheriff was arrested today on a misdemeanor count of committing voter fraud in last year's November elections.

A young man is in the hospital after being shot on Hinton Street Wednesday night.

Press Release From U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Virginia: Corbin Alexander Dickerson, 19, of Petersburg, Virginia, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of Robbery; one count of Bank Robbery; and Use of a of a Firearm in Relation to a Crime of Violence.

The third of three men charged in a string of armed robberies that plagued shopkeepers along the South Crater Road business corridor in Petersburg pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbery and firearm charges.

According to Magistrate Court records, the following individuals were either arrested or had activity in their cases.

The Bolsheviks may have tried to wipe history's slate clean in 1917 but, decades after the revolution, it seems that Tsar Peter the Great had the right idea.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] The Dinwiddie County Parks and Recreation and the Dinwiddie County Airport Authority are putting on the 2009 Fall Festival & Aviation Expo from Wednesday through Saturday.

A fugitive wanted in connection with the slayings of two Petersburg men has been captured.