King and Queen County News

King and Queen County has been granted a request for federal disaster assistance related to damage from last month's Nor'easter that affected many areas of eastern Virginia.

The Richmond area's unemployment rate declined in October, to 7.4 percent from 7.7 percent in September, the Virginia Employment Commission reported today.

VCU graduate student Pete Sturke and VCU biologist Dave Hopler collect fish samples to determine the health of Stony Creek in Sussex County as a part of the Healthy Waters Initiative.

Virginia's graduation and dropout rates improved slightly over last year, with varied results across districts in the Richmond region.

Prosecutors said Tuesday that a man shot in the head seven years ago was killed because of "bad blood" between him and a friend of the accused triggerman, Ralph E. Frost.

A bald eagle is back in the wild after being nursed back to health. NewsChannel 3 obtained pictures of the president and co-founder of the Wildlife Center of Virginia releasing the bald eagle today at Westover Plantation.

Central High School in King and Queen County is expected to reopen Monday, three days after the school was vandalized.

Update 3:15 p.m. This is Rob Cardwell. I just got off the phone with investigators with the King & Queen County Police Department.

The Department of Historic Resources has approved three new highway markers commemorating the history of Virginia Indians.

Cydney Fisher, a 2009 Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant, and her Little Miss Spat contestant, RuthAnne Key, have planned a mini rally to provide information on drug and alcohol prevention as part of her community service project.

The Northampton Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to revoke all waivers of tipping fees at the county transfer station for charitable and community organizations who had previously dumped refuse at no charge.

Dustin Francis of Nathalie has been selected as this yeara s Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Outstanding Young Agriculturalist.

Thomas A. Shepley has been hired as the new director of the Pamunkey Regional Library, which has branches in the Hanover, Goochland, King and Queen and King William counties.

A sky diving instructor's body was found in a wooded area near Middle Peninsula Regional Airport in West Point this morning.

A special prosecutor will file no charges against Colonial Beach Council Member P.A. "Trish" King for allegedly shoving Police Chief Christopher C. Hawkins.

Of the six Methodist churches formed in the 1800s in Middlesex County, only four will be standing after August.

RCCa s Middle College program recently graduated 20 students. From left are Tara Holmes, Lisa Kelly, Dominique Diggs, Samantha Elliott, Erik Schiller, Holly Mullins, Jennifer Williams and Joseph Marrow.

About 90 a oeImpact Virginiaa volunteers are working in Middlesex and Mathews counties as a one-week construction mission of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board.

The Westmoreland Circuit Court has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate a possible assault last month on Colonial Beach Police Chief Christopher C. Hawkins by Town Council Member P.A. "Trish" King.

Drucilla Ruffin Braxton, 91, of Philadelphia, formerly of King and Queen County, died Saturday, July 4, 2009, at Manor Care Health Center, Yeadon, Pa.