
Labor Day weekend traffic crashes claim eight lives in Virginia
Despite a significant decrease in fatal traffic crashes over the 2021 Labor Day holiday weekend for Virginia, there was still an alarming number of deaths among motorcyclists.

Despite a significant decrease in fatal traffic crashes over the 2021 Labor Day holiday weekend for Virginia, there was still an alarming number of deaths among motorcyclists.

Virginia State Police is investigating a fatal crash in Fluvanna County reported on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. on Winnsville Drive.

Virginia State Police is urging those who will be using the Labor Day weekend as a final summer travel getaway to do so safely and responsibly.

Somebody set fire to the Virginia Department of Corrections Adult Probation and Parole office building in the Town of Culpeper in June.

A majority of Virginians indicated that they would be willing to pay more in taxes to support several public services, according to a new statewide poll conducted by the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at VCU.

The Commonwealth’s 20th annual Checkpoint Strikeforce DUI enforcement and public education campaign will take place through Labor Day weekend and resume throughout the 2021 winter holiday season.

Historic African American gravestones were removed from a Washington, D.C., cemetery and dumped to control erosion on the Potomac River generations ago.

Virginia State Police Trooper W. Diberardine is investigating a single-vehicle fatal crash in Warren County.

Twenty-one motorcycle riders have died on Virginia roadways in traffic crashes since June 1. Of those, nine have been in single-vehicle crashes.

When Jessie Shaver heard that his good friend, Waynesboro Sheriff Joe Harris Jr., was retiring after more than 30 years, he started to think about his candidacy for the position.
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