Petersburg News

County and regional officials say Dinwiddie County is attracting serious interest from companies interested in locating there, including three health care companies that are interested in helping the county cure its shortage of medical service providers.

City Council Tuesday night took a stance opposite that of the Planning Commission and denied a special use permit request for the operation of an assisted living facility on Centre Hill Court.

V State Police say one person was killed when a tour bus belonging to Miley Cyrus overturned, but the 16-year-old "Hannah Montana" star was not on board.

Entertainment Tonight Headlines Police say they are investigating a crash that occurred Friday morning involving one of Miley Cyrus ' tour buses.

A Dinwiddie Junior High School student has been charged with a felony after a teacher's soft drink was tampered with.

At rear is Steve Perez, president of the Old Towne Merchants Group. An open house was held Wednesday night at Old Towne Catering.

Linas Kojelis, coordinator of the Greater Tri-Cities Hospitality Coalition, has announced a series of town hall meetings to be held Nov.

A city man was arrested for physically assaulting a woman and setting her on fire.

A Petersburg man was arrested today about 25 minutes after police say he set a former co-worker on fire and then fled on a public bus.

Ten houses in Petersburg and one in Ettrick owned by convicted slumlord Oliver C. Lawrence are being foreclosed on and are scheduled to be auctioned off next week.

The hits keep coming for Virginia's financially strapped school systems. The Virginia Department of Education recently recalculated the composite index for the 2010 and 2011 school years, which determines how much money each school system receives annually from the state.

A man found fatally shot in Petersburg on Wednesday has been identified as Harry Stevenson, 25, who had been staying with friends in Richmond, police said.

Police are trying to determine if two men who were shot were connected to an attempted break-in on Ransom Street around 8:00 this morning.

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Petersburg police are investigating whether a home owner opened fire on two people breaking into his home Wednesday morning.

Petersburg Police are investigating two shootings that left one man wounded and another man dead.

Cruise tours to Finland, Sweden and Estonia will start leaving from the new terminals on Vasilyevsky Island for the first time at the end of this year.

A Petersburg man died Monday afternoon after his pickup truck crashed into a tree in Dinwiddie County, Virginia State Police said.

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.