Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:06:13 GMT

The lawyer for a woman described as a person of interest in the New Year’s Eve death of a rival said yesterday that the woman was not present at the slaying scene. “She has told me that she was not there at that apartment,“ lawyer Dennis Martin said yesterday after a Henrico County judge set a $25,000 bond on burglary and vandalism charges against Kayla C. Armstrong, 25.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:12:02 GMT

As two bar associations convene this week, York Juvenile & Domestic Relations Judge Richard Atlee Jr. and Williamsburg-James City Deputy Commonwealth Attorney Sandy Conyers are odds-on favorites to be promoted in the 9th Judicial Circuit by the General Assembly.

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:20:19 GMT

MAYVILLE - Lyman Whitmore, 16, the older of the two convicts, has been sentenced by Judge John T. Ward to an indeterminate term of nine years to life in prison, more than the minimum sentence for a juvenile tried as an adult, in the murder of 18-year-old Dusty Elderkin.