DANVILLE, Va. — Incumbent Sheriff Mike Mondul faces newcomer Ril Mattison in the 2021 race for Danville City Sheriff. Both candidates sat down with the Star-Tribune this week to answer voters' most ...

DANVILLE, Va. — Danville City Police reported an escaped inmate from the adult detention center on June 17. According to the report, officers discovered that the inmate, Nicholas W. Spence, Sr., had ...

They both came of age in Danville in the 1960s. His father was a white publisher who took a stand on civil rights; her father was one of the city’s first Black reporters.

The Danville City Jail has received a 100% compliance rating following a recent audit, Sheriff Mike Mondul said in a news release Friday. The audit spanned a time period of three years and was based ...

The jail’s first fatality this year was Raymond Lea Massey, 53, of Danville, who died in January while serving a 2½-year sentence. Massey died of sepsis, heart abscess and acute pneumonia.

Incarceration doesn't define us. That's the message the Danville Police Department is sending to a special group of inmates ...

Andrew Hall was convicted of assault with a firearm for fatally shooting Laudemer Arboleda in 2018, but now it seems all but ...

A significant piece of Danville's history is set to disappear as a 19th-century tobacco warehouse in the River District is ...

The Danville Police Department Patrol Division were dispatched to the intersection of Main Street and Virginia Street around 1:56 a.m. Tuesday, June 24, for the report of a male threatening a female ...

Randy Adams remembers the Danville jail as metal and concrete, nothing as soft as a mattress in the summer that turned the tide on civil rights 50 years ago.

DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - Former Danville School Board member Dr. Keith Silverman died Monday, June 23, according to Danville Public Schools. Silverman was elected to the school board in November ...

Danville City Council unanimously approved the proposed 2025-26 budget for during its regular meeting Tuesday night.