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Anyone with information relevant to this incident are encouraged to call Detective S. Donald at (804) 646-6456.
Katelynn Hipes, 22, is in custody after the Harrisonburg Police Department successfully tracked down and then apprehended the ...
A 21-year-old from Petersburg died after being hit by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 around 12:51 a.m. Wednesday.
State Police Sgt. Jessica Shehan said the incident happened around 12:50 a.m. on southbound I-95 near the Washington Street and Wythe Street exits. The victim, an unidentified 21-year-old man, was in ...
Petersburg Fire Battalion Chief Chris Jones confirmed that six adults and 17 children were displaced after a Thursday morning fire damaged their apartment building.
PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — A person has been hospitalized after a shooting in a Petersburg subdivision on Wednesday. At around ...
A man was injured in a shooting in a parking lot in Petersburg that ended with a crash on an Interstate 95 overpass on ...
One resident angrily told city council members, "You are not governing. You are exploiting and, let me be clear, this town is not yours to exploit." ...
Petersburg authorities are trying to identify a suspect in one of a string of both commercial and residential burglaries.
Recently, the Petersburg Bureau of Police has responded to a string of residential and commercial burglaries in several neighborhoods in the city.
A 34-year-old man was arrested on Saturday morning after police say he was “brandishing” a concealed firearm in Petersburg.
The university issued an active shooter alert midday Thursday, saying police were responding near the student union.