A 36-year-old Roxboro, North Carolina, man was convicted Friday of charges for possession of methamphetamine and possession of amphetamine following a bench trial in Halifax County Circuit Court.

A 47-year-old South Boston man, Milton Eugene Clark, pleaded guilty Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to felonies for possession of cocaine and possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance and also pleaded guilty to misdemeanors for identity theft and possession of marijuana.

John Wade Glasscock Jr., a 27-year-old Scottsburg resident, pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to four charges related to the distribution of heroin and methamphetamine.

A 60-year-old Virgilina man, Ricky Dean Elliott, was indicted Thursday by a Halifax County Circuit Court Grand Jury for one count of malicious wounding.

A 28-year-old South Boston man, Andrew L. Loftis, will serve an effective six years in prison for a string of grand larcenies he committed in a period from December 2017 to April 2018.

A jury trial for 21-year-old South Boston resident Tequan Jamal Watson, indicted last July for first-degree murder in connection with a double shooting incident in Feb. 2018 that left one man dead and another wounded, was continued earlier this month in Halifax County Circuit Court.

A man described by law enforcement as being a problem in his community for some time, will serve an effective 20 years in prison for drugs and firearms charges.

A Halifax County grand jury indicted a 26-year-old South Boston man, Kevin Omar Edmunds, on Thursday for multiple charges resulting from a domestic disturbance that allegedly occurred Feb. 19 in the Poplar Creek Street area in South Boston.

A 59-year-old South Boston man, Michael William White will serve an effective three years in prison for breaking and entering following a sentencing hearing in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.

Alton Glenn Beadles, who pleaded guilty in December to the murder of Wendy Cash in January 2017, had his sentencing date continued on Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court.

Antone Lemont Hamlett will have more than two decades to think about his bad decisions made in November 2017, when he attacked his wife with a knife and abducted her.

A 12-person jury equally comprised of men and women deliberated for a little less than three hours on Friday before finding Journy Lee Snead guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his grandfather, Floyd Leslie Crider.

The murder trial of Journy Lee Snead took another turn Wednesday, when presiding Judge Kimberley S. White ruled earlier statements made by Snead’s 4-year-old daughter were admissible, after additional prosecution evidence was entered on Wednesday.

Prosecutors hoping to use prior statements made by the 4-year-old daughter of Journy Lee Snead during Snead’s first-degree murder trial hit a roadblock Monday, when presiding Judge Kimberley S. White reversed her earlier ruling and declared inadmissible statements made by the child in a fore…

A 39-year-old Vernon Hill man, Jamie Allen Seamster, was convicted of charges connected with receiving or selling stolen property following a bench trial Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court.

A five-day jury trial is set to start Monday in Halifax County Circuit Court for 32-year-old Journy Lee Snead, indicted in December for felony first-degree murder in connection with the death of his grandfather, 75-year-old Floyd Leslie Crider.

A 57-year-old South Boston man, William Michael White, will serve an effective three years in prison for felony shoplifting after being sentenced in Halifax County Circuit Court on Friday.

Tyrell Trevon Harris, a 24-year-old Vernon Hill man, will serve an effective one year in jail on charges relating to unlawful wounding and felony assault of a law enforcement person.

A Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 48-year-old Halifax man, Jeffrey Rymel Neal, on a felony charge for malicious wounding in addition to five other felony counts on Thursday.

A Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 48-year-old Halifax man, Jeffrey Rymel Neal, on a felony charge for malicious wounding in addition to five other felony counts on Thursday.

Shelley E. Thornton, a 36-year-old Nathalie woman who pleaded not guilty for reason of insanity in January in connection with the June 28 shooting death of her father, James Thornton, was remanded to state custody after a hearing in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.

A 29-year-old Halifax resident will serve a total of seven years in prison for five felonies, including three related to distribution of a controlled substance, after pleading guilty to the charges Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court.

A 35-year-old Halifax man, Christopher Deon Easley, was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison, with all but 10 years suspended, for possession of oxycodone, and he was sentenced to a 10-year suspended term for distribution of cocaine.

“Give me all your money, or I’ll shoot you in the face,” were the words written by Jeremy Lamar Anderson on a note and handed to a teller at American National Bank on Aug. 27, according to Halifax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tracy Q. Martin.

John Frederick “Jack” Brown will serve the rest of his life in prison in the Jan. 22, 2018 murder of his wife, Jeanette, with the sentence handed down Friday in Mecklenburg County Circuit Court.

A 38-year-old Nathalie man, Draper Lamont Davis, pleaded guilty Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court to a felony charge for possession of a firearm as a non-violent felon.

John Frederick “Jack” Brown, who entered an Alford plea in December to first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of his wife, will learn his fate Friday at noon in Mecklenburg County Circuit Court when he is sentenced.

The second of two men convicted of charges related to breaking and entering Thrifty Tire in South Boston received an active prison term of one year and six months for the felony in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.

Halifax County General District Court Judge William “Bill” Watson Jr. was one of four judgeship appointments made Thursday in Richmond for the 10th Judicial Circuit when the General Assembly appointed him to the circuit court bench.

A Halifax County Circuit Court grand jury indicted a 60-year-old Nathalie man on Thursday for malicious wounding using a crowbar.

A pair of South Boston residents, 34-year-old Amber-Dawn Yvonne Day and 37-year-old David Wayne Day Jr., pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to charges associated with the distribution of heroin and methamphetamine.

One judge and three attorneys practicing in Halifax County have thrown their names in the hat for judgeships now open in the 10th Judicial Circuit.

Antone Lemont Hamlett, a 36-year-old South Boston man, was convicted of attempted murder among a string of other charges Thursday during a bench trial in Halifax County Circuit Court in a case that Halifax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tracy Q. Martin described as one of the worst domestic …

A 31-year-old South Boston man will serve two years in prison for charges associated with breaking and entering Thrifty Tire in South Boston after being sentenced in Halifax County Circuit Court on Thursday.

Judge Kimberley S. White followed a jury’s recommendation in Halifax County Circuit Court on Jan. 10 and sentenced a 33-year-old Danville woman to a total of six months in jail for two charges of felony child abuse and neglect and one charge of a second offense of DWI.

Kenneth Johnson Harris, a 53-year-old Alton man, was convicted following a bench trial in Halifax County Circuit Court on Friday of a number of drug-related charges related to a police raid in November 2017.

Shelley E. Thornton, a 36-year-old Nathalie woman, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity Friday in Halifax County Circuit Court in connection with the shooting death of her father, James Thornton, at a residence in the 2000 block of Waller Road in Nathalie in the early evening o…

The trial date for a civil suit filed against employees of the Halifax County Animal Control Department has been continued to Aug. 7 and is expected to last three days, according to court records.

A Halifax County Grand Jury on Thursday indicted 36-year-old South Boston resident Lamont Bee Miller for four felony counts relating to breaking and entering and grand larceny.

A 32-year-old Lynchburg man, Dominic Esko Chism, will serve an effective 16 months in prison for two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer after being sentenced Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court.

Judge Kimberley S. White of South Boston has been elected to the position of presiding judge for the Tenth Judicial Circuit, replacing Chief Judge Leslie M. Osborn, who in late August announced his retirement effective Dec. 31.

A 60-year-old South Boston man, Richard Lee Torian, will serve an effective one year in jail for unlawful wounding after a sentencing hearing Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court.

Alton Glenn Beadles pleaded guilty Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to second-degree murder in connection with the shooting of Wendy Perkins Cash that occurred in northern Halifax County in January 2017.

A 22-year-old Halifax man, Damion Scott Fallen, received a suspended sentence Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court for a probation violation.

 A 39-year-old Halifax man, Anthony Tyress Jennings, will serve a total of three years in prison after being sentenced Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court for felony DWI and five other charges.

The trial date for a civil suit filed against employees of the Halifax County Animal Control Department has been continued, according to court records.

A 28-year-old South Boston woman, Toshiba Jones, was sentenced Thursday in Halifax County Circuit Court to five years in prison, with all but six months suspended – the mandatory minimum - for assault on a law enforcement officer.

Shelley E. Thornton, a 36-year-old Nathalie woman, was indicted Thursday by a Halifax County Circuit Court Grand Jury for first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of her father at a residence in the 2000 block of Waller Road in Nathalie in the early evening of June 28.

A Halifax County Circuit Court Grand Jury on Thursday indicted the grandson of a self-employed dry wall hanging contractor in his death.