Hanover News

Investigators are looking for a man who robbed a Mechanicsville Turnpike convenience store early Tuesday morning.

Longtime Henrico County Deputy Jermaine A. Burton shot himself to death in his Hanover County home May 31st, just hours after Henrico authorities launched an investigation into an allegation that he had sexual relations with a female inmate at Henrico County's Jail East, which is in New Kent County.

Straight-line winds, not a tornado, caused massive storm damage across Hanover County, according to the National Weather Service in Wakefield.

Up to 15,000 Dominion customers were without power, most in the Hanover and Mechanicsville areas after storms swept through.

But had it not been for a 1996 lawsuit, the town's debt scenario could be very different.

Hugh S. Campbell, 48, of Ashland-based Campbell & Campbell, P.C., will take over the vacancy left behind by Judge Peter Trible's retirement.

A Hanover supervisor has been receiving more than double the annual pay usually allotted for his position as traffic guard at two county schools.

Currently, vehicle radios cover about 82 percent of the county, and portable radios cover 42 percent.

Some Hanover County residents say it's not right that a county supervisor is being paid $41.25 an hour for his part-time job as a school traffic guard.

A woman accused of trying to extort money from a local youth pastor will stay in jail.

The Hanover County Sheriff's office confirmed to CBS 6 that Chris Allen Phillips, a pastor at the Mechanicsville Advent Christian Church, was arrested and charged with felony embezzlement.

Pat Thacker, a volunteer with Hanover Community Support Services since its beginning in 1991 and one of the founders of the "A Taste of Hanover" fundraiser, is the 2013 recipient of the Jean C. Harris Award for Excellence, the top annual award given by Hanover Community Services.

The Mechanicsville woman charged in February for attacking her 11-year-old son with an ax and attempting to burn down her home with herself and her three children inside will not have her day in court until the fall.