Prisons

UPDATED: We now know who tipped off police to that murder-for-hire plot centered around a kindergarten teacher in Franklin County Angela Nolen and Cathy Bennett are charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill Nolen's ex-husband. She and Bennett...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont federal court judge has sentenced a Mennonite pastor to 27 months in prison for helping a woman flee the country rather than share custody of her daughter with her former lesbian partner, but he remains free while he...

A Blacksburg attorney facing drug and gun charges will stay in jail. Joseph Painter was denied bond during a hearing Monday. He was arrested Feb. 26 in a hotel parking lot in Christiansburg. Painter, 65, has also been charged with DUI. On Monday...

Officials with the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail system will be visiting 10 localities in the coming weeks to ask for funding to help pay for an expansion project. Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority superintendent Steve Clear says the project...

If you ask Bob Terry, the attack that nearly killed him is merely an afterthought. "I haven't even thought about it," Terry said Tuesday.  "I'm not as strong as I was and I'm a little weak here and there." Terry is back at work and feeling good, but...

The man accused of beating up and robbing a longtime store owner in Bedford County is headed to prison. Jason Shell of Roanoke is charged with badly injuring Bob Terry, the 83-year-old owner of a country store in Moneta. Shell will spend the next 18...

HANOVER, Va. (AP) -- A Hanover County woman has received a suspended sentence and a fine stemming from a traffic accident that killed a Virginia State Police trooper. State police say 27-year-old Angelica C. Valencia of Doswell was driving an SUV that...

A former Dublin doctor was convicted late Thursday evening on federal drug distribution charges. Linda Sue Cheek was convicted after an eight-day trial in the United States District Court in Roanoke on 172 of the 173 counts she was facing. Evidence at...

A federal judge has sentenced a white supremacist to 3 1/2 years in prison for soliciting violence against a juror. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced William A. White on Wednesday to 42 months in prison. White ran an extremist website. He was...

The former treasurer of the Eastern Montgomery Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization has been found guilty of stealing money from the group. Dawn Owens pleaded guilty to two counts of petit larceny and two counts of obtaining false pretenses,...

A Chatham man who portrayed himself as a millionaire while he was an inmate has pleaded guilty to mail fraud Tuesday. Stanley Tatum was sentenced to 41 months of federal prison on one count of mail fraud. “Mr. Tatum was able to defraud...

A man who was previously charged with second-degree murder for accidentally killing his brother will have his jail time suspended after accepting a plea deal on Friday. As part of the agreement, Samuel Smith pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter....