Robert E. Lee statue removed from U.S. Capitol is now in museum
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond has taken in the statue of the Confederate general.
View ArticleChristmas Eve will be wet and windy in Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads could get gusty winds up to 50 mph, possible isolated thunderstorms and widespread rainfall of one to two inches.
View ArticleHoliday travel surges during pandemic: ‘God’s got me’
Millions of Americans are traveling ahead of Christmas and New Year’s, despite pleas from public health experts that they stay home.
View ArticleMan steals puppy from Pet World, Hampton police say
Officers uncovered in later investigation that the male suspect used force to enter the canine room of the store. He stole a Yorkie puppy from a kennel and fled the store in an unknown direction on...
View ArticleThe second oldest vessel in the Navy is back on the job at Little Creek
Little Creek's floating dry-dock Dynamic is 76 years old - and after a recent overhaul is still on the job in Virginia Beach.
View ArticleA Virginia-made coronavirus vaccine was 100% effective in mice. Human trials...
Dr. William Petri of the University of Virginia never thought his coronavirus vaccine would be first to market. But he hopes it can be a complement to others — and potentially provide longer-lasting...
View ArticleMore than 4,600 new coronavirus cases reported in Virginia, setting new record
The average number of new daily cases for the past week is 3,842, according to the health department.
View ArticleWith some jobless relief expiring Saturday, Virginia has had about 400,000...
As of Dec. 5, there were 20.3 million Americans collecting some form of unemployment benefit, and of those, 14 million were receiving pandemic-related relief that’s set to expire Dec. 26 if legislation...
View ArticleNewport News used federal grant to provide job training to people unemployed...
Newport News enrolled 238 people in its CARES Workforce Assistance Program, which was created to help residents who were unemployed or underemployed because of the pandemic.
View ArticleEx-Norfolk State University human resources director files discrimination...
Mona Adkins-Easley says the university violated discrimination laws when it failed to renew her contract.
View ArticleMaskless young conservatives chant ‘four more years’ with Pence at West Palm...
Thousands of young conservatives from all over the country flocked to West Palm Beach for a four-day summit that flouted COVID-19 health guidelines and featured speeches from top conservative leaders,...
View ArticleIn Virginia Beach, Santa waits inside a snow globe for visitors
In Virginia Beach, he’s had his own bubble, a large inflatable snow globe in the heart of Town Center. There, the North Pole’s finest can still radiate some warmth and love through his plastic shell in...
View ArticleMan seriously injured in Hampton shooting, police say
Officers received a call about shots being fired in the 100 block of Spanish Trail. While police were investigating, a 29-year-old man checked into a local hospital.
View ArticleProsecutors say Newport News police were justified in killing man after 2019...
Civilian on a police "ride-along program" was shot several times by the suspect; police officer was also shot.
View ArticlePolice searching for missing Portsmouth woman
A 70-year-old woman has been missing since Wednesday evening.
View ArticleMedical Examiner: Missing man found in Newport News river died of accidental...
A 62-year-old man whose body was found in a marshy section of the Warwick River earlier this year died of an accidental drowning.
View ArticleHampton University president, Hampton mayor and school superintendent get...
Virginia has reported 4,251 confirmed deaths statewide due to the coronavirus and some 271, 811 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to the most recent figures from state health.
View ArticleNorth Carolina seeks volunteers to decipher ‘colonial chicken scratch’ in old...
Hundreds of records written in hard-to-read cursive from three centuries ago include court records from early owners of Roanoke Island, European interaction with natives and the selling and freeing of...
View ArticleRelative of Blackwater victim in Iraq says Trump’s pardons of four...
The shooting of civilians by four contractors prompted an international outcry, left a reputational black eye on U.S. operations in Iraq and brought into question the government’s use of private...
View ArticleBuoy in Nags Head surf will purposely collect barnacles and other sticky...
Scientists at Coastal Studies Institute hope to find better ways to prevent "biofouling" on marine equipment.
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