CHESAPEAKE Jim Shivers was about to bury his son when a woman he didn't know walked up. She told him Jarrod Shivers had saved her life when he arrested her for driving drunk. "All she said was he was so nice to her and so kind and helpful," Jim Shivers said. "She credited him with giving up the booze and getting her life together."

CHESAPEAKE The state's highest court has denied Ryan Frederick's appeal of his conviction for voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a city detective. Eric Korslund, Frederick's lawyer, said he learned Friday that the Virginia Supreme Court rejected without comment his request that it hear his full argument. The decision was dated Tuesday.

Virginia Supreme Court justices asked the lawyer for Ryan Frederick several "what if" questions Tuesday. Frederick is appealing his voluntary manslaughter conviction in the shooting death of a Chesapeake police detective during a drug raid in 2008.

CHESAPEAKE Ryan Frederick, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a police detective during a drug raid, has been denied an appeal by a three-judge panel of the Virginia Court of Appeals. The decision Thursday, as reported on the court’s website, comes after a single Court of Appeals judge denied the same request in January.

CHESAPEAKE That warm January night in 2008 felt routine in almost every way. Scott Chambers and Jarrod Shivers reviewed the plan over sushi with a partner. They drove by a house on Redstart Avenue where police suspected a marijuana-growing operation. They grabbed a coffee before joining the rest of the team at the 2nd Precinct to go over the drug-search plan.

A Virginia Court of Appeals judge has denied Ryan Frederick's bid to overturn his conviction for killing a city police officer. A jury found him guilty last year of voluntary manslaughter for killing Detective Jarrod Shivers during a raid on Frederick's South Norfolk home. A judge sentenced Frederick to 10 years in prison.

CHESAPEAKE During his months in jail, Ryan Frederick wrote and rewrote an apology to Jarrod Shivers' family in his mind and on paper. Hours before his Friday morning court sentencing, Frederick scribbled away again on a yellow notepad in his solitary cell until 2 a.m. "I did rough draft after rough draft," he said. "Ball it up, throw it away. Ball it up, throw it away."

CHESAPEAKE Ryan Frederick has asked the commonwealth's attorney to prosecute a Chesapeake police informant who burglarized his Portlock home. "He should be held accountable like everybody else who breaks into people's houses," Frederick said.

CHESAPEAKE Steven Wright, a police informant, said there were "implied promises" made by police and prosecutors to take care of him in return for his testimony against Ryan Frederick, a Chesapeake man convicted of killing a police detective during a drug raid.

CHESAPEAKE The Tidewater Libertarian Party called the shooting death of a Chesapeake detective last January "tragic and avoidable" and on Tuesday night asked the City Council to create a citizen review board to investigate police policies.