JAMES CITY — A former James City County police officer will spent two years on probation after accepting a plea deal in a child abuse case.

A former James City County police officer was sentenced to two years of probation for felony child abuse, according to James City County officials.

Caleb Crawford was indicted by a grand jury in 2024 on charges of malicious wounding, child abuse, and contributing to the ...

Thousands are without power amid severe winter weather. Warming shelters at Arcadia and Nandua High Schools offer refuge.

Allison Cannon has been ousted from her position as chief of Halifax County Animal Control. She had been in that role since 2024.

Halifax County is now accepting applications for the 2025-26 funding cycle of the Recreation Partners Program. The Halifax County Board of Commissioners has allocated $30,000 to be ...

Two of five Republicans seeking the GOP nomination for the right to challenge U.S. Rep. Don Davis, D-1st District, in the ...

The General Assembly has now passed its midpoint, where each chamber is required to finish work on its own bills and send any that have passed to the other chamber. Here’s where some of the bills ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A shooting at a school in remote northern British Columbia left seven people dead, while two more were found dead at a nearby home, Canadian authorities said Tuesday ...

Hassan Kingsberry has been appointed as the new county attorney for Prince George County. Kingsberry is the first Black person to hold this position in the county's history. He has an extensive ...

"At first, I was surprised,” Edith Younger Edmunds said in a phone interview with The Mercury on Monday. “But now, I realized this was not about me, it was about McGuire. It was about him telling my ...