Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, is set to be sentenced Tuesday for h…
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Virginia man who is seeking to challenge one of his convictions for using a firearm in an attempted robb…
Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to four years in prison for cheating Stormy Daniels of hundreds of thousands of dollars in book proceeds.
Duggar was arrested in April 2021 after authorities found child pornography on a computer at a car dealership that he owned.
Russia and the U.S. carried out a dramatic prisoner swap on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug …
Josh Peck say he is “not really” friends with Drake Bell anymore while appearing on the podcast BFFs with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards on Thursday (17.03.22).
Kim Potter, the former suburban Minneapolis police officer who said she confused her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright…
A man who bit off part of his former girlfriend’s lip during an argument in late 2020 has been ordered to serve nearly 20 years in prison.
Davidson College senior Brandon Harris sat in a Maryland courtroom Tuesday as a judge decided the fate of a lifelong friend.
Legislation that appears to take a gentler approach to crime can be a tough sell, especially this year in Virginia, with a newly installed Republican governor and Republican majority in the House of Delegates.
LaNita Poe, whose husband Maurice is incarcerated at the St. Brides Correctional Center in Chesapeake, said she was surprised to see news about some state lawmakers hoping to accelerate the timeline for legal sales of recreational marijuana in Virginia.
A Senate bill that would increase compensation for jurors selected for circuit court trials in Virginia from $30 to $100 a day has moved forward without opposition. The current compensation amount of $30 hasn't changed in "decades," the bill's sponsor says.
A judge is considering a request from prosecutors to reduce the 110-year prison sentence of a truck driver for an explosive crash that killed …
The family of a trucker sentenced to 110 years in prison after an explosive brake-failure accident that left four people dead held a rally in …
All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a large…
Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Jones' sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the US Capitol riot.
A Martinsville man will spend six years in prison after being convicted of multiple drug offenses.
A Fieldale man was sentenced to an active prison term of 38 years after receiving 48 years total in Henry County Circuit Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to shooting a Bassett woman in the face and killing her unborn child on the porch of a Fieldale residence.
Cynthia Dobrinski died Tuesday. The sentence giving that information at the end of a Wednesday story continued on Page 5 read wrong due to a s…
A Spotsylvania man who fired three shots during a traffic altercation earlier this year on State Route 3 in the county was ordered Tuesday to serve five years in prison.
Counsel for James Alex Fields Jr. expanded on arguments that Fields should have been tried outside of Charlottesville.
Eva Carol Belcher, 60, of Snow Creek was sentenced to 15 years prison, but half was suspended against 2 years of probation and 5 years of good behavior.
He will spend about 7.5 years of a 30-year sentence behind bars.