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A tractor-trailer hauling bricks overturned in Chesterfield County Monday morning, causing a road closure while crews clean up.

Blanchard's Coffee Co. is bringing its specialty brews to Target stores across the region as the company celebrates a milestone anniversary.

Join the 8News crew as we take you for a tour of the new Allianz Amphitheater in Richmond.

At its peak, more than 90,000 Dominion Energy customers in Central Virginia sat in the dark after Sunday's severe weather knocked out lines, littered roads and diverted at least one plane from landing at Richmond International Airport.

Search efforts continue for the man last seen going into the York River on Sunday, according to the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office.

A Chesterfield father is demanding answers after his 16-year-old daughter, who is a lifeguard at Pocahontas State Park, was hospitalized after her shift.

A Richmond police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 1925 was honored Monday with a centennial memorial service.

After a Richmond man spent over 40 years in prison for the abduction, rape and murder of a 3-year-old in 1975, crimes which he did not commit, Governor Glenn Youngkin has ordered the City of Richmond to pay him $5.8 million.

Fortress of God, a daycare on West Hundred Road in Chester, agreed to forfeit its religious exemption in a consent agreement signed this month between owner Monique Ede and state officials.