- Colonial Heights
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- Hospitable Helpers: Crater Community Hospice moving to Petersburg
Death looms at the end of everyone's life. But who among us is ready for it? That's where Mary Parker comes in.
- Steps you take now can ease pain later if you lose your job
The unemployment rate is up sharply since the beginning of the year: Month Jobless rate* January 4.9% February 4.8% March 5.1% April 5.0% May 5.5% June 5.5% July 5.7% August 6.1% September 6.1% October 6.5% * = ...
- Colonial Heights Police Offer Shopping Safety Tips
Police call them crimes of opportunity and in Colonial Heights, they want the opportunity to disappear.
- Virginia may cut Medicaid, public education spending
Members of the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee signaled yesterday that they are prepared to cut spending on public education and Medicaid to help the state balance its budget.
- Colonial Heights to start underage drinking hot line
Colonial Heights police will set up a phone hot line for the prevention of underage drinking in early 2009.
- Parks not for sale
The city stopped the plan to sell two properties on Court Street and Floral Avenue after being confronted protests from citizens.
- More of this story
For the past 14 years, Lamese K. Essey has helped to guide businesses in Colonial Heights.
- Ceremonies pay tribute to those who served
On the first anniversary of the end of World War I in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson commemorated the signing of the armistice treaty with hopes that it was the war to end all wars.
- Businesses Making a Difference
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- Three arrests in Braswell case
The Petersburg Police Department announced a breakthrough and three arrests in the case of the murder of Colonial Heights resident Robert Lewis Braswell Jr., which sent shockwaves through the community almost ...
- Honoring those who served
At 11 a.m. on this date 90 years ago, The Great War, now known as World War I, unofficially came to an end through an armistice, or temporary stop of hostilities.
- Va. State Operating Budget Up Sharply Since 1999
Virginia's operating budget during the past decade has ballooned by about 80 percent, according to a legislative study released Monday.
- Turnout stronger than average here
Citizens braved long lines and a few hiccups to vote yesterday in record numbers.
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- Big break between Petersburg, Heights votes
Crossing the Appomattox River on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge, small signs mark the boundary between Petersburg and Colonial Heights.
- Voters relish their civic duty
A rainy but temperate Election Day did not deter voters near dawn Tuesday morning.
- Area election officials ready
Election officials in the Tri-Cities are saying that they are prepared to handle a record voter turnout tomorrow in what could be one of the most pivotal and popular elections in decades.
- Have a scary, but also safe, Halloween
Those looking for something spooky - or not - to do this weekend have plenty of options in the Tri-Cities. Cemetery tours, a haunted forest and a new non-Halloween festival are all options.