James City County News

An employee of Sportsman's Grill and a firefighter was taken to the hospital Friday morning after the upper York County restaurant caught on fire, county fire officials said.

Police are trying to identify a bank robber. The man, wearing sunglasses and a ball cap, walked into SunTrust Bank at 496 McClaws Circle around 4:45 p.m. Thursday.

As we head into the star-spangeled weekend, these annual events are guaranteed to put some red, white and blue into your July Fourth outings.

Local governments are appealing to federal officials and Congress to speed the removal of the so-called Ghost Fleet in Virginia's lower James River.

Authorities arrested a man driving a stolen jeep that was dragging a safe out of a Gloucester marina.

When it was time for Judy Eley to say goodbye to her 11-year-old beagle, she didn't want their last moments to be spent in a sterile room with stainless steel fixtures.

It's difficult to consider Fourth of July celebrations without thinking of the usual accompaniment of airborne explosions reminiscent of artillery shells falling on Revolutionary battlefields.

After making a beeline for a display of John Deere tractors at the James City County Fair on Thursday afternoon, David Ozolek was a man on a mission.

York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office investigators are looking for a fourth man in connection with a June 6 robbery at the Four Seasons Apartments on Thoreau Circle in Tabb.

A Virginia agriculture official says a temporary quarantine has been placed on a portion of the state because of a burgeoning fire ant threat.

Fire ants are on the move and the State of Virginia is stopping transport of items that carry them in 11 Hampton Roads localities.

The principals from eight W-JCC schools and the division's two executive directors of elementary and secondary instruction were selected earlier this year to attend the Harvard Institute for Principals.

James City County police are looking for Spencer Montez Stover, a 19-year-old Hampton man.

Spencer Montez Stover, 19, and Taquan Vanrie Brown, 18, turned themselves in to the James City County police Wednesday.

You don't have to go to Egypt to ride a camel. The humped animals will be coming to James City as just one of the many attractions of the James City County Fair.

Robert Becker, assistant superintendent for operations, told the School Board on Tuesday night that renovating the Ironbound Road middle school to house nine of the district's administrative departments and its dropout prevention program for middle school students, the Academy for Life and Learning, could save the division millions over the next ...

Two men wanted by police for alleged involvement in a recent robbery spree through several Peninsula localities turned themselves in to James City County police Wednesday evening, said Deputy Chief Stan Stout.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that John Hinckley Jr., who in 1981 tried to assassinate then- President Ronald Reagan , can spend more time on visits with his mother, a Kingsmill resident.

I have known her for years, and this was a delight to read this front-page story on such an inspirational person.

Each year, thousands of graduates participate in the nearly 100-year-old tradition of tossing their graduation caps to signal the end of one journey and the start of another.