Petersburg Mayor Sam Parham (standing left) speaks with City Manager John “March Altman Jr. prior to a closed meeting in the city’s casino project. (Graham Moomaw/Virginia Mercury) Petersburg Mayor Sam Parham said Wednesday that he stands by the allegation that his city faced political pressure from the General Assembly to choose a particular casino developer […]
Two teenagers are facing murder charges after St. Petersburg police found a 21-year-old man dead in the 100 block of 80th Avenue NE on Saturday. At about 1:15 p.m., St. Petersburg Police found Marcus Rivers, 21, in his car. He was dead from a gunshot wound, police said in a news release. Officers also found […]
PETERSBURG — A man who authorities say fled on a bicycle after attempting to rob a bank in Colonial Heights is now facing charges of robbing banks in Petersburg. Larry Jerome Weaver, 40, of Petersburg, was formally charged Friday with two robberies Feb. 5, one at a Bank of Southside Virginia on South Crater Road […]
PETERSBURG — A soldier is in custody after Petersburg Police arrested him on child-pornography possession charges. Robin David Ramos-Romero, 22, of Petersburg, is being held on five charges of child-porn possession, according to a police social-media post. Bond has been set at $25,000. He was arrested Thursday, police said. The charges are a Class 6 […]
RICHMOND – Gov. Glenn Youngkin has sent back to the General Assembly legislation that would set up Petersburg as the fifth casino-host city in Virginia with the recommendation that the vote does not need a do-over. Senate Bill 628 was one of 11 bills amended by the governor’s office Friday. Youngkin recommended pulling a re-enactment […]
IndyCar driver Marcus Ericsson is the defending champ of the St. Petersburg Grand Prix. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The 2024 NTT INDYCAR Series kicks off this weekend on the Gulf Coast with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The action on the 14-turn, 1.8-mile street course begins this Friday with the practice […]
PETERSBURG – Even though she was not physically there, the presence of the current or former city school superintendent – depending upon who you ask – was still felt at Wednesday’s School Board meeting, the first since she left. So was the silence that has enveloped the Petersburg City Public Schools since Feb. 23, the […]
PETERSBURG – A city police officer is facing traffic charges after the cruiser he was driving hit another vehicle at a downtown intersection Friday morning. Virginia State Police are investigating the crash because it involves a law-enforcement officer. The wreck happened at the intersection of West Wythe and South Market streets in front of a […]
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -A drone crashed into a five-storey residential building in St Petersburg on Saturday and 100 people were evacuated with no casualties, Russia’s Rosgvardiya national guard said. St Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov said earlier that two buildings were damaged and residents had been evacuated after what he called an “incident” with no casualties. […]
An apartment building in St Petersburg has suffered damage after an “emergency”, Russian authorities said. Russian state news agency Tass said that the damage was caused by an “explosion”, while local news and social media said that a drone had hit the building. There were no casualties, St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov wrote on Telegram. […]
An apartment building in St Petersburg has suffered damage after an “emergency”, Russian authorities said. Russian state news agency Tass said that the damage was caused by an “explosion”, while local news and social media said that a drone had hit the building. There were no casualties, St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov wrote on Telegram. […]
Two buildings were damaged following an unspecified “incident” in St. Petersbug’s Krasnogvardeisky district early on March 2, the city’s governor, Alexander Beglov, reported. The governor’s statement comes amid claims spread on Russian Telegram channels that Russia’s second-largest city came under a Ukrainian drone attack. According to the Mash Telegram channel, the likely target was the […]