3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (361+ words) A man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty in July to shooting and killing two men. About 1 a.m. on April 20, 2024, Jamal Parham and one other man drove up to meet Russell Barnes and Eric Jones Jr. in…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (450+ words) The former event coordinator for the Dukes Touchdown Club, a nonprofit that supports the Gloucester High School football team and cheerleaders, was indicted for embezzling from the club and arrested Tuesday afternoon. Shannon Roane, 57, is charged with six felony counts…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (129+ words) The Virginian-Pilot CHESAPEAKE — Fire crews responded to a fire in the city’s Bowers Hill area early Wednesday afternoon. Chesapeake Fire Department units arrived just before 12:30 p.m. following multiple calls reporting smoke and flames at a large construction facility near…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (593+ words) By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and JAMIE STENGLE No one has publicly said what 38-year-old Patrick Havas wanted to ask Acton, but authorities have said he never brandished or unholstered the weapons he had on him and they haven’t found any threats…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (704+ words) An Alexandria man died in the custody of the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday morning, Sheriff Ron Montgomery said during a news conference later in the day. The 45-year-old man struggled for about 10 minutes with sheriff’s deputies trying to arrest…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (690+ words) A Norfolk judge certified the case against a Navy electrician, accused of beating his wife before wrapping her in plastic wrap, and storing her body in the freezer of their downtown Norfolk apartment. At a probable cause hearing on Wednesday…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (221+ words) Federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could play a role in this year’s midterm elections. With less than three weeks before early voting starts, candidates for Virginia’s 1st Congressional District seat sparred on social media over changes to SNAP,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (313+ words) A tenacious sheriff’s deputy was run over by an ATV, and still managed to get back up and chase down his suspect, according to investigators in southwestern North Carolina. It happened Thursday, Aug. 27, along U.S. 64, after deputies learned a suspect…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (699+ words) “I imagine they passed this way,” said Wanda Tucker, a 17th generation granddaughter of William Tucker. He’s believed to be the first African born in English-speaking North America — to two people kidnapped and brought to Hampton in August 1619 on the the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (603+ words) A special prosecutor dropped over a dozen felony charges against an 18-year-old in the March shooting of six bystanders on Atlantic Avenue as he returned another man’s fire. “Upon review of the facts, circumstances and evidence in the case, I…...