Dinwiddie County News

Carroll called professional, seasoned officer Trooper Ralph Carrolla s motorcycle is shown on the ground on U.S. 220 after it collided with a 2000 Honda Accord driven by Christopher Cunningham on Friday.

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

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A Virginia Department of Transportation contractor began installing guardrails along U.S. 460 in Dinwiddie County.

A March for Justice rally drew more than 100 people today amidst criticism of an acquittal and dropped charges in the shooting death of a popular Petersburg businessman three years ago.

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.

Inmates have been evacuated from the Dinwiddie County Jail after a fire breaks out inside the laundry room.

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.

Homes being bulldozed and burned to the ground. A local community is doing it on purpose.

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.

Gang leader Kalvin B. Kelley was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday for conspiring to kill a city police detective and other crimes associated with his control of a Bloods-affiliated gang in the Tri-Cities area.

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

Augusta County wants attorney Francis Chester's reassessment lawsuit thrown out of circuit court, and is asking that the attorney be sanctioned for bringing the complaint.

A motorcycle crash has left one young man dead, two friends facing criminal charges and a mother questioning claims that her son was killed while racing on a downtown Richmond bridge.

A new report finds that problems at the Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation didn't improve much in 2008, despite the center's having moved to its new $62 million facility in Nottoway County.

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 County has laid off nine employees to address a budget gap in the current $39 million operating budget.