Goochland County News

Richmond, VA-- One man is dead after drowning at an apartment complex pool in Richmond today, May 27, 2012.

Release from Virginia State Police: At 11:50 a.m., May 25, 2012, Virginia State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on Interstate 64 eastbound at the 168 mile marker in Goochland County.

Release from Virginia State Police: At 11:50 a.m., May 25, 2012, Virginia State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on Interstate 64 eastbound at the 168 mile marker in Goochland County.

A Louisa woman died and five other people suffered minor injuries Friday after a single-vehicle crash just before noon on Interstate 64 in Goochland County.

Release from Virginia State Police: At 11:50 a.m., May 25, 2012, Virginia State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on Interstate 64 eastbound at the 168 mile marker in Goochland County.

One person was killed and five were injured today when a car ran off the right side of eastbound Interstate 64 in Goochland County and hit several trees, the Virginia State Police reported.

Thousands of metro residents and visitors from out of town and out of state made the trek to the western end of Goochland County last weekend to check out the second annual Rassawek Spring Jubilee Wine and Heritage Festival.

Area children with severe medical conditions will have an opportunity to be considered for medical treatment during the James River Shrine Club's screening clinic on June 2. Hawk, 75, said the 22-member James River Shrine Club is made up of members from Goochland and Powhatan counties.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gestures as he speaks to a group of farmers during a panel discussion at the Virginia Farm Bureau in Richmond.

For the past seven years, Tanner Collins Jr. has worked to deliver loans to small companies in the Richmond-Petersburg area.

GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. - The Rassawek Spring Jubilee Wine & Heritage Festival takes place in Goochland County this weekend.

Members of the Powhatan and Goochland Chambers of Commerce and officials from the Goochland County Economic Development will join YardWorks employees for a ribbon cutting ceremony slated to start at 12 noon.

City-arranged transportation began last weekend for families of inmates displaced by the sudden closing of Richmond's Juvenile Detention Center.

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Fisher, Jr. , of Brookview Farm, in Goochland County, have won the 2012 Cynthia Pratt Laughlin Medal, a National award presented by the Garden Club of America for outstanding achievement in environmental protection and the maintenance of the quality of life.

Richmond welcomed it's newest brewery with open arms this past Friday evening as the doors officially opened for Midnight Brewery , located in Goochland County.

Terms of the separation agreement and general release signed by Underwood and School Board Chairwoman Beth Hardy at the special meeting included a lump-sum payment of $56,304, a $31,075 payment on Underwood's behalf to the Virginia Retirement System, $12,620 for unused annual leave, and payment of health care premiums for Underwood and her spouse ... (more)

Felony charges will be presented to a Richmond grand jury Monday in the fatal hit-and-run case which left one man dead and another injured.

Nine of Virginia's public high schools have been selected as some of the best in the nation, in a new list from U.S. News & World Report.

Authorities in northern Mississippi who tracked down a fugitive accused of kidnapping two girls and killing their mother and older sister say they repeatedly ordered him to surrender, GUNTOWN, Miss.

Jake E. King Jr. won this year's Crime Stoppers Poster Contest, making it two years in a row that a Goochland High School student has won the award.