In January, Erin Strotman pleaded no contest to nine counts of child abuse in Henrico County Circuit Court as part of an agreement with prosecutors.
- KEITH EPPS The Free Lance–Star
Lawrence Toler’s family says the 39-year-old died in custody after months of medical issues tied to a 2024 police shooting.
- ETHAN HUNT The Roanoke Times
Kipps Elementary Principal Mark Crummey was among 17 men arrested at a Christiansburg hotel last week.
- LAURENCE HAMMACK The Roanoke Times
A $10 million lawsuit accuses a former Roanoke police officer of shooting and seriously wounding an intellectually disabled man who was unarmed during a 2024 encounter.
- Mark Hand The News & Advance
Lynchburg Circuit Court Judge F. Patrick Yeatts found Tony Brown guilty of first-degree and three other felonies on Monday in the stabbing death of his Nicole Rosser, his ex-girlfriend.
- GREG MADIA The Daily Progress
Virginia football wide receiver Jahmal Edrine was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of rape and one count of abduction.
- MATT CASE The Roanoke Times
The accused has been charged in juvenile court and is being held in jail without bond
Roanoke police seized 18 dogs on Tuesday from a commercial property near Williamson Road.
Erin Strotman, a former nurse at Henrico Doctors' Hospital, pleaded no contest Thursday to nine counts of child abuse in Henrico County Circuit Court.
Sheriff Anthony Cline announced that he has selected Hody Viars to serve as Chief Deputy of the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office.
On Oct. 23, the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office arrested Carlis Orlando Pressley, accusing the Nesmith, South Carolina, man of scamming a Wythe County senior citizen out of $25,000.
During Monday’s pre-trial hearing in Connie Clay’s wrongful termination lawsuit, attorneys sparred over whether the city had turned over all relevant communications between Clay and her former boss, Petula Burks.
Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler was attacked and set on fire outside the Professional Building on Main Street downtown on Wednesday, police and a witness said.
Denise Smith said she watched Amari Pollard point a gun at his head and pull the trigger. But it didn't go off. The clicking sound is seared into her mind.
Four suspects, two of them felons, are facing multiple criminal charges in a Dec. 8 police search and vehicle chase that started at Wytheville’s Ramada Inn.
"I’m either going to hell or jail," Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. texted before gunning down three of his schoolmates in 2022, according to details made public for the first time Wednesday.
Arraigned by video on Tuesday morning and given a court-appointed attorney to represent her, a Pulaski County woman accused of burning a Wythe County woman to death has a preliminary hearing scheduled for next year.
At the request of the man who took out the arrest warrant, a misdemeanor stalking charge against Virginia’s Farm Credit CEO was dismissed on Thursday morning.
Activities at the Wythe County Public Library next week start Monday at 1 p.m., when the Meandering Mondays Book Club meets. It’s a reader’s choice, any book is fair game.
Accused of driving while intoxicated for the fourth time and fleeing from police, a Speedwell man with multiple felony and misdemeanor convictions was arrested again on Monday.
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Orange County clarifies its summer child care program remains open, with low enrollment prompting consolidation from OES and LES to Locust Grove and Gordon-Barbour.
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Orange County Parks & Recreation earned a VACo Achievement Award for its 2025 Elementary School Flag Football Tournament, hosted with the high school football team.
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Orange County warns residents about email scams impersonating county staff, urges verification of charges, and provides tips and contacts to avoid fraud.
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Building Safety Month is an international May campaign promoting modern building codes and awareness of safe, sustainable structures, including the 2026 theme “Built to Last.”
A new exhibition is opening at the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation and Museum. Edith in Context: Socioeconomic Conditions at the Turn of the 20th Century debuts to the public on Thursday, Nov. 21, from 5–6:30 p.m., in a limited-seating presentation that is free to the public. The …
The Second Annual “Salute to Our Veterans” Program will be held on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. at Wytheville Presbyterian Church, 285 Church St., Wytheville, to recognize and honor our community’s veterans. Musical performances will be provided by a community choir from members of Wytheville …
The Kiwanis Club of Wythe County has begun their Frazier fir wreath and white pine garland fundraising sale for the holiday season. This fundraiser provides funding to allow the Kiwanis Club to help the children in the Wythe County community. Frazier fir wreaths are available in 22 inch, 33 …
A Marion man who police say raped a mentally incapacitated woman in August is now scheduled for a November preliminary hearing.
The mother and wife of two Huguenot High School graduation shooting victims filed two federal lawsuits on Saturday seeking a total of $26 million in damages from Richmond Public Schools.
The decision from the federal appeals court in Richmond reverses another judge's decision capping total damages at $350,000.
"The settlements approved today is just one small step on this terrible road that these families are on," Elliott Buckner, lawyer for Perry's family, told the press.
A new study by the University of Edinburgh's Childlight initiative reveals that over 300 million children globally face online sexual abuse every year.