Esther Edwards Burr’s journal gives us one of the few records of female life in colonial America. Here’s what it reveals.

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. -- A woman is in critical condition after she was shot outside of her Colonial Heights home Monday evening, police tell CBS 6 senior reporter Wayne Covil. A suspect in the ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. (WRIC) — A woman was magnet fishing by Swift Creek in Colonial Heights when she pulled in something completely unexpected — a live Civil War-era cannonball. Darla Tipton was out ...

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The Black Women Lead project, which honors Black women from the 1700s to the present, has provided me with an opportunity to learn about a different side of American history. The stories of Black ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS − The woman whose body was found Thursday morning in the Appomattox River at Roslyn Landing Park had been shot, police said Thursday night. Police were called to the scene around 5 ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS – Police are searching for a Dinwiddie County man they believe shot a woman in the leg late Tuesday night. Warrants have been filed for Nicholas Davis, 28, stemming from the shooting ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found inside a car Saturday night submerged in Swift Creek. Police got a call shortly before 9 p.m. that a car was in ...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. (WRIC) — A woman is in the hospital in critical condition after police say she was shot by a man in Colonial Heights near the city’s border with Chesterfield County. According to ...