
Standoff ends peacefully: Waynesboro man in custody on abduction charge
A Waynesboro man is in custody after holding a woman at gunpoint, leading to a standoff with police Saturday evening.

A Waynesboro man is in custody after holding a woman at gunpoint, leading to a standoff with police Saturday evening.

You can largely determine where a person will fall in the debate over gun control and the Second Amendment based on their view of government and the role it should play in our lives.

Gov. Ralph Northam highlighted new laws that take effect July 1 with the start of the new fiscal year in the Commonwealth.

Three people were shot to death in Herndon last week — a mother and her two children, in an incident the police termed “horrific.”

The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Appomattox Field Office is investigating a fatal shooting involving Virginia State Police personnel that occurred Wednesday evening in Amherst County.

Kevin Alexander Linares DeGiron, 20, of Charlottesville, has been charged in connection with the May 16 robbery at the Waynesboro Neighborhood Market.

A federal jury convicted a Norfolk man last week on charges of participating in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, acetyl-fentanyl and heroin in the Hampton Roads region.

Deonte Laron Harris, 31, was released from the hospital and arrested by UVA PD on the outstanding warrants.

Virginia State Police has identified the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Augusta County on Friday as Jeffrey J. Bruce, 48, of Grottoes.

A Newport News man is in custody in connection with a shooting into an occupied vehicle that apparently stemmed from a dispute in a parking lot in the Fishersville area Thursday night.