State Police are assisting authorities in Sussex County as they search for a man who fled into the woods Tuesday afternoon. More>>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time More>>
CHATHAM, Va. (AP) - State alcohol regulators say they have arrested a Pittsylvania County man after they seized 339 gallons of moonshine from his home. Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control More>>
GROTTOES, Va. (AP) - The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office says a 59-year-old Grottoes farmer was fatally trampled by his bull. Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson said Sam Saufley was found by family members Saturday More>>
The funeral for a young boy killed by a falling tree inside Maymont Park last week will be held today. More>>
A petition to have an animal adoption center at Short Pump Town Center is gaining momentum. More>>
RICHMOND, VA—A young woman is in the hospital after being hit by a VCU bus outside City Hall on Tuesday morning. More>>
Destruction in Moore, Oklahoma following the May 20 tornado.An upcoming concert will allow Richmonders to enjoy music from local artists, all while helping aid the victims of the Moore and Shawnee, Oklahoma tornadoes. More>>
A therapist in Caroline County has been sentenced to 65 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to committing sex crimes against children. More>>
Richmond Police say a man was shot while fleeing an attempted robbery early Tuesday morning. More>>
Police are asking for help to identify the man who robbed a Hanover County convenience store early Tuesday morning. More>>
A man was attacked and injured by a mob of juveniles as he waited at a bus stop in the Hillside Court public-housing project in South Richmond late Monday night. More>>
A Chinese food delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint in South Richmond late Monday night. More>>
Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks. More>>
A General District Court judge has ruled there's enough evidence to proceed in a case against a couple accused of arson in Accomack County. More>>
A Chesterfield County man is in serious condition after a car driven by his brother ran him over before crashing into their home. More>>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands More>>
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - A former day laborer has pleaded guilty to sneaking up on multiple women in Fairfax County and cutting their backsides with a razor blade or box cutter. Johnny Guillen Pimentel pleaded More>>
NEW YORK (AP) -- Here's the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection. When stretching out the dough for its premium "Artisan Pizzas," Domino's workers are instructed not to worry about More>>
The suspect accused of beating a man to death in Hopewell this weekend has been arrested. More>>
The body of an 11-year-old boy reported missing in Henrico County Saturda was found in a nearby pool Sunday. More>>
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA has eight new astronauts - its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. More>>
Richmond, VA – Mayor Dwight C. Jones today shared the results of a review his administration requested from the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS). The VDSS review is one of three reviews the More>>
Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia were charged on Monday in a scheme to exploit immigrants from Pakistan... More>>
Virginia's Court of Appeals has expanded the issues that can be brought up on appeal by a former UVA lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend. More>>
The U.S. Forest Service says a man drowned while trying to help a horse at Bark Camp Lake Recreation Area. More>>
Curtis L. Finley has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Darvis M. McLaughlin... More>>
Soldiers based at Fort Lee are coming home from a six-month deployment to Kuwait and Afghanistan. More>>
Two dozen localities in Virginia are getting state grants to place school resource officers in public schools... More>>
One person is dead and two others injured after a single-vehicle crash on Woodpecker Road in Chesterfield County Sunday afternoon. More>>
Chesterfield Police have identified the victim in a deadly crash on North Rhodes Lane on Sunday. More>>
CHESTERFIELD, Va – Chesterfield Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred in the 19800 block of Halloway Avenue on Saturday night. An officer on patrol in Matoaca Park came upon More>>
NEW YORK (AP) -- Laura Radocaj of Vero Beach, Fla., was warned when she was pregnant with twins that motherhood would be harder than she imagined - especially because she planned to go back to work while More>>
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. dealt with the aftermath of his famous father's death more than a decade ago. He was asked Saturday how the racing community's reaction to tragedy has changed More>>
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's 110th anniversary with a loud parade More>>
HENRICO, Va - Henrico Police detectives have arrested and charged Mr. Andrew Arthur Pratt, age 22, with 2nd Degree Murder and Use of a Firearm in the Commission of a Felony for the shooting death...
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JAMISON CITY, Pa. (AP) -- Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least More>>
HENRICO, Va - At approximately 2:30am Saturday morning the Henrico County Police Division was called to Westham Parkway just north of its intersection with Pinetree Road in western Henrico County in regards More>>
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - University of Virginia officials say their first round of worldwide free online classes were such a success that they'll increase the offerings. Sources say more than 150,000 More>>
Power remains out to thousands of Dominion Virginia Power customers across central Virginia; Find out where Dominion crews are working...
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani was declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote on Saturday after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians looking to claw back a bit of More>>
The Richmond area will come together at a park where a 4-year-old was killed by a tree during this week's storm to remember the boy... More>>
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The revelation that a top former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who knew 94-year-old Michael More>>
A Chesterfield County teenager is charged after police say he accidentally shot a teenage girl Thursday. More>>
Harry Connick Jr. has written a song in honor of a 6-year-old girl killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. More>>
Police have arrested and charged a Petersburg man in connection with the 2010 murder of a Chesterfield County mother. More>>
Creditors are taking over operation of a privately run, state-owned toll road that has failed to generate enough revenue to cover its debt payments. More>>
Prince George County Public Schools and Petersburg City Schools will be closed Friday, following storms that ripped through the area Thursday. More>>
Across Virginia, more than 50,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers are without power due to the severe weather. More>>
Six months after the Newtown school shooting, the tragedy will be marked with a moment of silence, the reading of thousands of names of gun violence victims and calls around the country to pass legislation expanding background checks for gun purchases. More>>
The outdoor deck at a popular Miami-area sports bar partially collapsed during the NBA Finals, sending dozens of people into the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay. More>>
Richmond Police are asking for help finding a missing mother and her five-year-old son... More>>
Here's a look at some the photos 8News viewers sent in from Thursday's storm. Send your photos to news@wric.com.
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A line of severe thunderstorms is sweeping across Central Virginia, causing damage and power outages...
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Nearly a dozen Richmond middle school students were taken to the hospital after their school bus was rear-ended Thursday afternoon. More>>
The first lawsuit challenging Virginia's new abortion clinic regulations has been filed. More>>
A wildfire in a dry, densely wooded area of Colorado has destroyed at least 360 homes - nearly four times the previous estimate and a number that seemed likely to climb as the flames kept burning out of control, authorities said Thursday. More>>
Ambulances and helicopters took at least 30 people from a burning chemical plant after an explosion Thursday in Louisiana, officials said. More>>
Glitter and nail polish aren't glamorous for a box turtle found in Augusta County.
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Cigarette taxes are going up in Salem and Vinton. Beginning July 1, Salem's cigarette tax will increase from 20 cents a pack to 45 cents. Vinton's tax will rise from 20 cents a pack to 35 cents.
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A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis was recovering from a transplant of adult lungs after a judge's ruling expanded her options for lifesaving surgery. More>>
The threat of severe weather on Thursday has forced some local events to be postponed, including the Sheryl Crow event at Innsbrook...
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NASCAR driver Jason Leffler has died following an accident Wednesday night during a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey. More>>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an effective tool in keeping America safe, telling Congress on Wednesday that the More>>
MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - Republican nominee for lieutenant governor E.W. Jackson admitted that he used marijuana and experimented in other controlled substances in his youth, and acknowledged that he was forced More>>
After around 100 dogs were found living at a Lunenburg County home last month in what an animal rescue group called a hoarding situation, nearly all of the dogs have been rescued. More>>
Richmond Police are searching for the man who impersonated a police officer, pulling over two cars and robbing their drivers along Jefferson Davis Highway late Tuesday night. More>>
An Ohio boy admitted he fatally shot his mother in the head with a rifle when he was 10 after what a relative described as an argument over chores. More>>
All lanes of I-85 north in Dinwiddie County have reopened following a wreck Wednesday afternoon. More>>
The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose efforts to qualify for a transplant drew public debate over how organ donation should be done is getting a new lung. More>>
Police are stepping up patrols after three men robbed a man on VCU's campus early Wednesday morning. More>>
Using voice commands to send text messages and emails from behind the wheel, which is marketed as a safer alternative for drivers, actually is more distracting and dangerous than simply talking on a cellphone, a new AAA study found. More>>
A Cleveland man has pleaded not guilty to holding three women captive in his home for a decade and raping them. More>>
The Henrico County Board of Supervisors approved construction of a new cell tower in the West End, but not everyone is excited about it... More>>
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democrats nominated Norfolk doctor and state Sen. Ralph Northam for lieutenant governor in a statewide primary that saw two senior Republican delegates ousted by conservative challengers. More>>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In Spanish and English, the Senate pushed contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles with deceptive ease on Tuesday as President Barack Obama insisted the "moment More>>
Two students suffered minor injures when a special needs school bus ran off the road and crashed in Chesterfield County on Tuesday afternoon. More>>
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network voted to keep the so-called Under 12 Rule, but it created a mechanism that would allow doctors to request exceptions for their pediatric patients. A national lung review board would then approve these children for transplant consideration as adults case by case. More>>
All lanes of southbound Chippenhamp Parkway have reopened following a wreck in Chesterfield County on Tuesday evening. More>>
Passengers who were stuck on a Las Vegas tarmac in two different planes for more than four hours made the best of a simmering situation by joining in to belt out lines of R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." More>>
Richmond Police have arrested two men, but continue to search for a third man they say robbed a woman early Saturday morning on the city's Southside. More>>
Removable flood walls would be set up for much of lower Manhattan, a 15-to-20-foot levee would guard part of Staten Island and gates and levees would shield Brooklyn as part of a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York City from storms and the effects of global warming. More>>
A three-judge panel is weighing a bid to broaden the appeal of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend. More>>
A Chesterfield County Police officer has been arrested after police say while on duty he took and sold the jewelry of an person needing medical attention. More>>
Richmond International Airport has reopened its terminal after an unspecified threat was called into the terminal early Tuesday morning, prompting an evacuation. More>>
After resigning amid multiple felony charges in Texas, Geronimo Aguilar, the founding pastor of The Richmond Outreach Center, will receive six months severance from the Richmond-based church and will continue to live in the church's parsonage. More>>
Route 10 in Prince George remains closed after flash flooding during Tropical Storm Andrea... More>>
A memorial service is scheduled Thursday for a soldier from Virginia who was killed in Afghanistan. More>>
NEW YORK (AP) -- The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. The More>>
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal grand jury has been impaneled in the FBI's investigation of nutritional supplement maker Star Scientific and ties Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife have with the company's More>>
AFTON, Va. (AP) - Virginia State Police are releasing additional details about a fatal shooting over the weekend involving an Albemarle County police officer. State Police said in a release Monday that More>>
A sentencing hearing is set for a Gloucester County couple convicted of keeping their daughter in a makeshift cage.
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Like a lot of kids, the two brothers from northern Illinois spent hours marveling at the weird and the wonderful in the Guinness Book of World Records - and wondering what they could do to get in it. More>>
Richmond Police have arrested one man, but continue to search for a second suspect after a person was shot early Sunday morning in Richmond's Fan district. More>>
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