Chesterfield News

A Chesterfield County judge today set a Feb. 23 hearing for defense arguments on why former gang member Detavis J. King should get a new trial in the 2007 slaying of Chesterfield teenager Ryan Matko.

A Richmond sheriff's deputy was present during an exchange of gunfire in a parking lot outside a Wendy's restaurant in Chesterfield County, a sheriff's spokesman said.

Chesterfield County police Lt. Doug Mooney was named Farmville's new police chief today.

These dogs are available for adoption at the Chesterfield County Animal Control's Animal Shelter.

Franco's Fine Clothiers is opening a store this week in the Chesterfield Towne Center for the holiday shopping season -- and maybe longer.

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Chesterfield County supervisors last night unanimously agreed to wait three months before voting on an ordinance prohibiting the use of a bow and arrow within 600 feet of a home.

CHESTERFIELD, Va. - Police are investigating the death of a hunter whose body was found in a wooded area in Chesterfield County.

A new manufacturing line from Maruchan Virginia Inc., a Chesterfield County-based ramen soup and noodles manufacturer, will mean 50 new jobs for the region.

Indianapolis Hhgregg is slated to open two stores in the Richmond, Va., area on Thursday.

The Virginia Attorney General's Office has recognized two localities for their efforts to address domestic violence.

Chesterfield education leaders say there's no way around it. Schools in the county are facing 25 to 30 million dollars worth of budget cuts next year due to the strained economy.

Sitting in the shadows of the Westchester Commons, The Shoppes at Westchester is quickly filling up and becoming a major shopping and office complex on Midlothian Turnpike.

The hits keep coming for Virginia's financially strapped school systems. The Virginia Department of Education recently recalculated the composite index for the 2010 and 2011 school years, which determines how much money each school system receives annually from the state.

For years, she was the lone voice in the desert crying for a stop to the wild, thoughtless development that Chesterfield's Good Ole Boys and Girls Board of Supervisors had been fostering for three decades.

Swine flu appears to have been cut in half in Virginia. About 8 percent of people visiting emergency rooms across the state reported flulike illness, down from a high of 15 percent three weeks ago, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

Nine roads in Chesterfield County are closed due to high water or downed trees. As of 2:30 p.m., the following sections of roads were closed due to high water.

Four teenagers are under arrest and charged with using BB guns to vandalize several Chesterfield County businesses.

Chesterfield Police are looking for the suspects accused of shooting out windows at a shopping center on Hull Street Road.

A Chesterfield County man has been charged in Henrico County with impersonating a Richmond police officer and then raping a woman.