RICHMOND – The Virginia Court of Appeals has denied a Brunswick County man’s request to overturn his life sentence for first-degree murder, claiming that the crime does not fit the criteria for manslaughter as he asked for during his trial. In an opinion released Tuesday, a three-judge panel said that Dinwiddie Circuit Court Judge Dennis […]
DINWIDDIE − Two people were killed and several others injured in a six-vehicle crash Friday morning on southbound Interstate 85 that also involved a tractor-trailer, state police said Details are being released as they become available. What is known, however, is that the accident happened around 7:45 a.m. at the 40.2-mile marker on I-85, about […]
PETERSBURG – A Petersburg-based minerals producer plans to spend $50 million to reopen its mining operations in Dinwiddie and Sussex counties. Atlantic Strategic Minerals is devoting that money to restart a mine in Dinwiddie, and reopen concentrator and mineral separation plants in Sussex. Minerals in the operations include titanium-based ilmenite, zircon and monazite. Seventy-one new […]
HOPEWELL — A Dinwiddie County man is in custody after police say he shot a man Thursday afternoon in a south Hopewell neighborhood. Tarique Avion Granderson, 20, of North Dinwiddie, has been charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He currently is being held without bond at […]
RICHMOND – The state Court of Appeals has turned down a Chesterfield County man’s request to reverse his convictions on sex-related charges, claiming that the evidence produced at trial was not enough to find him guilty. In a ruling released Tuesday, the appellate court said the circumstances leading to Andrew Luke Neff’s convictions clearly showed […]