PORTSMOUTH, Va. — One of the two men involved in the 2023 deadly shooting on Turnpike Road in Portsmouth was sentenced to 13 years in prison. According to Portsmouth police, they received ...

Janice Louise Walling, affectionately known as Jan to her family and friends, departed this world on January 29, 2025, at the age of 79. Jan was born on June 16, 1945, in Slainsville, WV ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang member was sentenced Thursday to six life terms in prison for his role in a series of violent murders and conspiracies in Virginia and ...

Still he cannot vote, because the governor, Glenn Youngkin, who has sole discretion over whether and when people exiting Virginia prisons regain voting rights, has not granted the permission. “I’ve ...

BENTONVILLE -- A Pea Ridge man was sentenced to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex crimes and a drug charge. Robert Hanlon, 43, pleaded guilty Monday to trafficking a controlled ...

So why should any of the January 6ers be in prison? “What happened in Seattle where they took over a big portion of the city?” he said after signing the clemency. “What happened in Portland ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced a Pennington Gap man was sentenced to 10 years of active incarceration for distributing fentanyl and being in possession ...

The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has resigned from her position, while a Biden-era executive order that sought to phase out the use of private prisons has been repealed amid ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — An inmate at a federal correctional facility in West Virginia was sentenced to additional prison time after he was found with a weapon, officials said. Demoreal Killebrew ...

Those freed from Israeli prisons included 69 women and 21 teenage boys from the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to Hamas. In Tel Aviv, hundreds of Israelis cheered and wept in a square ...

JOHANNESBURG - Foreign prisoners outnumber local inmates at some correctional services facilities. This has raised concern in Parliament's Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. Chairperson ...