Phoebus High School defeats Lake Taylor High School in the Class 3 Region A championship game at Darling Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, in Hampton, Va.

The Newport News City Council voted Tuesday to raise the maximum charge for vehicles towed by the police department or at the department’s request.

The Chesapeake Bay dead zone is shrinking, but there is still a ways to go to getting rid of it completely.

In the wake of the mass shooting at the Sam's Cir Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, memorials were set up and vigils were held for the six victims.

Norfolk police arrested Akime R. Porter, 37, in connection with the death of 62-year-old Robert Hodges.

The Newport News Green Foundation is transforming the mostly vacant land into the Sarfan Food Forest, which will be filled with as many as 75 different species of fruit-bearing trees and other plants native to Virginia.

Two vigils have been planned on Nov. 27 and 28 in Hampton Roads to memorialize the victims of the Walmart shooting.

Two Virginia Beach Walmart stores received threatening phone calls Friday. The stores are located at 2021 Lynnhaven Parkway, in Salem Crossing, and 4821 Virginia Beach Blvd.

Family and friends took to social media this week to remember loved ones who died in a shooting at a Chesapeake Walmart on Tuesday night.

Hampton police are seeking the public's help in identifying the suspect(s) in a Thanksgiving shooting that left one dead at Aberdeen Road and W. Mercury Boulevard.

“I think I’m still in shock,” said Kayla Pineda, 17. “I guess I just don’t want him to really have left us.”

Portsmouth School Board Chair Cardell Patillo was sworn-in as president-elect of the Virginia School Boards Association.

While many companies provide active shooting training, experts say there is much less focus on how to prevent workplace violence, particularly how to identify and address worrisome behavior among employees.

Virginia Beach police responded to a shooting at 7:25 in the 5300 block of Wesleyan Drive. A report of a second shooting just 3 miles away came in around 10 minutes later. The second shooting, located in the 700 block of Independence Boulevard, was at a Food Lion grocery store.

It’s not clear how many victims were employees and whether any were shoppers.

Police identified the gunman as Andre Bing, 31, of Chesapeake. He was an overnight team manager at the Walmart.

Walmart confirmed Andre Bing was an overnight team lead, and had worked for the company since 2010.

As people across the community reel from this act of violence, it’s important to know resources are available.

The jury in U.S. District Court in Norfolk told the judge it was deadlocked at 7-1 after having deliberated for several hours over two days.

The court hearing in the case is set for Dec. 5.

Seven dead, including the gunman and four wounded at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, Tuesday a little after 10 P.M. Nov. 22, 2022.

Virginia Beach Fire Department was dispatched to a fire in 4700 block of Birdsong Lane, according to tweet posted by the department just after 7:20 p.m. The burning building is part of Windsong Apartments, located off Pleasure House Road in Virginia Beach.

Volunteers from New Virginia Majority have spent the past month walking students home from bus stops in the St. Paul’s community as part of a pilot program to curb gun violence in the area after parents reported hearing gunfire between 3 and 5 p.m. — around the same time children are returning home from school.

New Virginia Majority and Norfolk community members escort students home from bus stops in the Calvert Square neighborhood on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. The NVM recently began the escort initiative in response to gun violence occurring around the times students get off the bus. They also hand out bags of snacks with pieces of paper attached that explain to parents and guardians the mission of the group and their presence in the neighborhood.

A helicopter pilot and a meteorologist who worked for a North Carolina television station died Tuesday following the crash of the station’s helicopter next to an interstate highway in the Charlotte area, according to the authorities and news station WBTV.

Authorities said JoAnna Cottle called police just before 5 a.m. Friday to report an intruder in her home in Chester, just south of Richmond. When police arrived, they found the bodies of Cottle, 39, and her children, Kaelyn Parson, 13, and 4-year-old twins, Kinsey and Jayson Cottle.

Donors between Wednesday and Sunday will received a free Red Cross beanie and between Monday and Dec. 15 will received an emailed $10 Amazon gift card.

Investigators believe the three victims were in the same vehicle Friday night in the 200 block of Bridgeport Cove, in the Bridgeport Apartments complex, when they were approached by “multiple” individuals who began shooting at them.

A man charged in the slayings of two campus officers at a private Virginia college has been indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder and other counts.

The Norfolk International Airport is primed for a deluge of Thanksgiving travelers this week, but this year the airport has added a new feature to keep the pickup lanes clear of traffic: a cell phone parking lot.

Police responded to the 3500 block of South Military Highway, in the Deep Creek North section of the city, to check on a vehicle on the side of the roadway. Officers found Tiquan Smith, the only occupant in the car, had been shot.

The U.S. Navy unveiled a new housing barge, Auxiliary Personnel Lighter (APL) 68, and a self-service Navy Exchange (NEX) Micro Market on the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. The introduction of the housing barge and market is intended to improve the quality of life for sailors and shipyard workers by having food, coffee and snacks available for purchase 24/7.

The grant will allow the new CNU pilot program to expand mental health services for students, while simultaneously increasing the mental health workforce pipeline through offering supervised clinical hours for counselors.

Shaw University President Paulette Dillard has accused law enforcement officers in Spartanburg County of racially profiling the 18 students traveling on a contract bus from Raleigh, North Carolina, to a conference in Atlanta on Oct. 5.

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman confirmed that Landen Glass, 20, was released on a $4,000 bond, The News & Record reported. Glass is scheduled to return to court Jan. 26.

Police on the Outer Banks are searching for a 22-year-old man wanted in connection with a road rage incident that left a motorist with serious injuries.

The annual event was created a few years ago by NFL quarterback and Hampton native Tyrod Taylor, who plays for the New York Giants.

A Portsmouth police detective testified Monday that he and other officers in unmarked cars began following a stolen vehicle that had been involved in a carjacking in Portsmouth as it drove into a Norfolk cemetery. The officers were attempting to stop the car when the driver, Malachi Elliot, drove toward them, he said.

Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine confirmed the rash of suicides Monday, which occurred throughout the month of November. All three sailors were assigned to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center at Naval Station Norfolk. The military has not publicly commented on the deaths.

Tony DeDolph, a Wisconsin native, was a member of the elite SEAL Team 6. He was one four American servicemembers — two SEALs and two Marines — who were charged in the death of Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, a Texas native.

Robert "Bob" Halstead DeFord Jr. started his career in Virginia Beach farming the land. He went on to become a real estate developer, owner of automobile dealerships and involved in local banking.

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a Virginia school board that says it shouldn’t be held liable for the alleged sexual assault of a student by a classmate on a band trip.

A University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in a shooting that killed three of his teammates has been released from the hospital.

Grammy-winning songwriter, rapper and producer will return to Hampton Roads for the Norfolk State University commencement ceremony in December.

In Virginia, 1.3 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles for the Thanksgiving holiday, according to AAA. That’s down from 1.4 million in 2019, a 5% decrease, but enough to create headaches for motorists on area roadways this week.

Several other localities within the bounds of the health districts said a review of the COVID response could prove helpful.

Once upon a tide, three King Mackerels traveled from the harbor of Oriental, (North Carolina, that is) searching for a special mess.

Thousands of people, including current and former military members,have returned to blood donation centers across the country after federal health officials lifted a ban that stood for more than two decades.

Winston-Salem Police Department spokeswoman Kira Boyd told the Winston-Salem Journa l that two people died in the crash of the small plane in a residential area on Saturday morning.

The service at John Paul Jones Arena came on a day when the Cavaliers had been scheduled to play No. 23 Coastal Carolina, but opted instead to honor their fallen teammates as well as injured player Mike Hollins and another student who was shot.