‘Little but Fierce’: Documentary filmmaker tells the story of Hampton...
“If we couldn’t save her life, we wanted to make damn sure that we were doing everything we could to make sure it was a life worth living,” Melanie Davis said.
View ArticleLawyers accuse CBBT of having ‘secret’ wind policy during trial over fatal...
Billie Jo Chen is suing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel for $6 million, saying its staff should not have allowed her husband, Joseph Chen, to cross the span with a nearly empty trailer on a day when...
View ArticleNewport News plans for ‘a little magic and merriment’ with holiday celebrations
The city's holiday festivities will kickoff virtually at 5 p.m. Saturday.
View ArticleSuffolk police find body of man who went on hunting trip Tuesday morning and...
The cause of death is undetermined and the investigation is ongoing. No foul play is suspected.
View ArticleLocal “The Voice” contestant talks meeting his idols and what’s to come
“Gwen said it best. She doesn’t see why I’m not signed, so I’m going to try to put myself in that position,” Jus Jon said.
View ArticleWhat do bus drivers do when there’s no students? At one Newport News school,...
"We can’t just sit there hour upon hour. We have to find something to do.”
View ArticleAfter dodging questions, TCC confirms major donor backed out of NEON district...
A planned arts center at the old Greyhound station in Norfolk appears to be in serious jeopardy, with the school's president saying they are about $12 million short.
View ArticleRansomware attack on Hampton Roads Sanitation District knocks out billing system
Customers won't be charged for late payments while the system is down.
View Article2 charged with murder after missing Norfolk teen found dead
“I am proud of the work our detectives have done to bring some closure to Ms. Cowell’s family," Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said.
View ArticleWith Russian warships active, US Navy revives Atlantic Fleet via overhaul of...
The change will have no impact on jobs or revenue in Hampton Roads, Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite told the Senate Armed Services Committee’s readiness panel.
View ArticleEvery Virginian could have access to a coronavirus vaccine by ‘early summer,’...
The governor said a pair of rapidly developing vaccines are “the light at the end of this very long and dark tunnel.”
View ArticleAthletes say they removed Utah monolith because of damage caused by visitors;...
Two men known for extreme sports in Utah’s sweeping outdoor landscapes say it was environmental damage that made them step in late at night and tear it down.
View ArticleVirginia’s new redistricting commission taking shape as lawmakers name state...
The 16-member panel, which was created after voters approved a constitutional amendment earlier this month, will include eight legislators and eight other citizens, evenly divided between Democrats and...
View ArticleNASA: Mystery object orbiting Earth is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid
Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
View ArticleLon Adams, Slim Jim jerky recipe creator, dies in North Carolina
Lynn Barrow of Brown-Wynne Funeral Home in Raleigh, North Carolina, confirmed Wednesday that Adams died on Nov. 28. A graveside funeral service was held Wednesday, Barrow said.
View ArticleChina’s space ambitions: Robot on Mars, a human on the moon
China’s landing of its third probe on the moon is part of an increasingly ambitious space program that has a robot rover en route to Mars, is developing a reusable space plane and is planning to put...
View ArticleMissing Hampton 18-year-old found safe, police say
Ayannah Phillips has been missing since Nov. 25, police said.
View ArticleThe crab pot season was extended 20 days. Virginia doesn’t think it will...
“Based on estimates of abundance and the lack of fishing effort during the early period of the pandemic, researchers believe the extended season will have minimal impact on annual harvest,” the...
View ArticleFor diving into danger — on the home front — a Navy rescue swimmer is honored
Petty Officer 1st Class George Parsons III won the Navy's highest award for non-combat heroism for helping a police officer apprehend a suspect. In the Navy, he said, "We’re used to risking something...
View ArticleVirginia county votes to oppose Northam’s coronavirus restrictions
Campbell County's supervisors declared the county on Tuesday to be a “First Amendment sanctuary.”
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