Dinwiddie News

Fire destroyed three mobile homes tonight around 9 at Harrison's Mobile Home Park on Boydton Plank Road in Dinwiddie County, officials report.

He's only been on the job for six months, but a Dinwiddie Sheriff's Deputy made the department's biggest marijuana bust.

The family of slain Petersburg businessman Robert L. Braswell Jr. was optimistic last fall when police announced the arrests of four people in the trusted shopkeeper's 2006 robbery and shooting.

The Virginia Cooperative Extension has selected William "Billy" Bain of Dinwiddie County as the Virginia Farmer of the Year, an award that applauds individual contributions to the commonwealth's agricultural industry.

DINWIDDIE From the outside, the old Baxter's General Store shows signs of its age.

After primary, Brian Moran returns to his law practice. Thursday, June 11, 2009 Brian Moran put everything on the line, resigning from his leadership position in the House of Delegates to concentrate on his race for governor.

Manchester Tank shut down its Dinwiddie County manufacturing facility Thursday and laid off 66 employees.

Owners of a Dinwiddie County manufacturing plant that made propane cylinders used in heating equipment have closed down the facility and laid off 66 employees.

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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced yesterday that the Amelia and Dinwiddie county school divisions were selected to receive grants to improve school safety.

An educator for 38 years, R. Francis Moore puts students first. During a career spanning four decades, Moore's focus on the children never changed as he rose through the ranks from a math teacher and basketball coach in Dinwiddie County to superintendent in neighboring Prince George County.

Bank of McKenney held its 2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders today at the Bank's Corporate Headquarters at 20718 First Street, McKenney, Virginia.

Officials in Bedford County spent most of Monday taking horses from a farm in the Stewartsville area, after charging their owner with animal cruelty.

A big turnout of Dinwiddie County residents is expected at a public hearing tonight on the proposed real estate tax rate.

Southbound traffic on Interstate 85 was slowed in Dinwiddie County this morning by a tractor-trailer wreck.

Even with federal stimulus money included in a proposed budget for 2009-2010, as many as 44 positions in the Dinwiddie County school system could be eliminated.

A Dinwiddie County jury today recommended a life sentence for Julie E. Futrell, who earlier this afternoon was convicted of first-degree murder in the November 2006 stabbing death of her 6-year-old son.

A Dinwiddie County woman fatally stabbed her 6-year-old son after learning that her husband had left her and wouldn't agree to sign away his rights to their child, a prosecutor charged yesterday.

Dinwiddie Supervisors propose cut in tax rate Property reassessments, taken every four years, climb as much as 47.4% The Board of Supervisors yesterday agreed to propose a lower real estate tax rate, but that didn't please residents whose property assessments have risen dramatically.