The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office responded to an emergency call concerning a man demonstrating erratic behavior while outside a pickup truck.
The Virginia Tech policy allows people to report incidents of bias, after which a university team responds, but does not discipline people involved in that incident, according to the university.
"At this stage of the police investigation, it appears that Lewis Lambert killed the male juvenile then committed suicide," Roanoke County police said Wednesday.
Police say an unknown woman “walked up, took the child out of the cart and attempted to walk out of the store.”
The bodies of Chris Lambert and 62-year-old Lewis James "Jimmy" Lambert Jr. were found Friday in the McAfee Knob trailhead parking lot in Roanoke County.
The filing is the latest chapter in a more than two-decade-long legal saga that began in 2000 when Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were joined in a Vermont civil union, the first statewide legal recognition of same-sex couples.
The Norfolk Police Department has installed 172 license plate reading cameras throughout the city, new Chief of Police Mark Talbot told City Council during a Tuesday work session.
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A Florida man who police say had an AK-47 rifle in his car was arrested outside a northern Virginia preschool after he told officers he was headed to CIA headquarters, police said Wednesday.
Privately made guns can be assembled from kits available online and lack a serial number that could trace them to a crime.
The judge has declined to let one of the two plaintiffs remain in the case after the group lost its state corporate status by failing to file an annual report from 2015 to 2021.
The vandalism included graffiti, none of which was related to race or ethnicity, according to the sheriff's office.
With surrounding states banning or further restricting access, abortion providers say Virginia can be a destination for out-of-state patients seeking the procedure.
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia says a man with a baseball bat walked into his Fairfax office, asked for him, and then assaulted two members of his staff.
The answer is not yet clear, but the bill's sponsor wants to build awareness of the option to help prevent gun violence.
University of Virginia Police Chief Tim Longo is told about the arrest of Christopher Darnell Jones, who authorities say fatally shot three on Sunday.
David Oranchak, who lives in Roanoke County and studied at Virginia Tech, is among a trio of international code-breakers who recently decoded the second cipher from a still unidentified California serial killer.
Although he first denied any involvement in his estranged wife’s June 2019 shooting death, a Smyth County man switched course Thursday and admitted to her killing.
An inmate at the federal prison in Lee County pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to unlawfully possessing a weapon inside the prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Officials say recent allegations of assaults and other abuse by staff on inmates at Wallens Ridge State Prison made by an advocacy group have been or are being investigated and that thus far none have proven to be founded.
Investigators are pursuing leads into the deaths of two men found at the scene of a reported shooting in Buchanan County late Thursday, Buchanan County Sheriff John McClanahan said Friday.
A Kingsport man who was convicted of aggravated sexual battery in 2000 is being sought as a fugitive by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, a post on TBI’s official Twitter account states.
The former executive vice president of J&R Manufacturing in Bluefield, Virginia, was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for failing to pay taxes and making false statements, according to acting U.S. Attorney Daniel Bubar of the Western District of Virginia.
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An inmate at United States Penitentiary, Lee County was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on a charge of premeditated murder in the stabbing death of his cellmate, according to Daniel Bubar, acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
A drug manufacturing company was sentenced in federal court Thursday to pay $289 million in criminal penalties after an earlier guilty plea related to marketing of the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone, the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia said.
A new billboard on U.S. 460 asks drivers to search their memories – and their hearts – for possible clues in the long-unsolved murders of Heidi Childs and David Metzler.
U.S. District Judge James P. Jones has set a Nov. 15-19, 2021, trial date for Bristol Virginia’s lawsuit against the BVU Authority that will hear the city’s claim that BVU Authority owes it $6.5 million from the proceeds of its 2018 sale of its former OptiNet division.
A Virginia State Police trooper suffered minor injuries Sunday night in Grayson County after a man struck him with a hatchet and then fled the scene.
Startling and disturbing new information came to light in a Thursday bond hearing in Roanoke. Read the story, "New details emerge regarding March double homicide in southeast Roanoke," here.
Startling new details emerged Thursday during a bond hearing for William Reno Ray, the man charged with murder in the deaths of April Barnicoat and Eric Surface in March.
A fight between two brothers and their father in Clinchco on Monday morning left one brother dead from gunshot wounds and the father in critical condition, according to the Dickenson County Sheriff’s Office.