The North Carolina Department of Labor today issued 11 citations to Melrose South Pyrotechnics and fined the company about $45,000 for violations that led to a fireworks explosion on Ocracoke Island on July Fourth. Four workers with the Catawba, S.C. company were killed by the blast, and a fifth suffered severe burns. Full Story »
The U.S. Coast Guard signed off today on a project to replace the Jordan Bridge, paving the way for a private development team to begin work on a fixed toll span that will connect South Norfolk to Portsmouth. Executives with the development team have said they can complete the bridge for under $100 million by late 2010. The plan calls for a toll of about $2. Full Story »
NORFOLK A 22-year-old city man who lost control of his all-terrain vehicle and crashed into a wall has died, police reported Friday. Brandon Angelo Via was riding in the 300 block of Naval Base Road early Wednesday afternoon when he ran into a wall at Uncle Bob’s Self-Storage, police said. He died late Thursday afternoon, police said. Full Story »
VIRGINIA BEACH The deaths of two boaters who were found in the Chesapeake Bay last Friday have been ruled accidental, an official said. “All the evidence shows that it was an accidental drowning,” said John Bull, a spokesman for the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. Full Story »
VIRGINIA BEACH Erik Wellumson, the 23-year-old who collapsed on the boardwalk while running the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon Sept. 6, died of an acute cardiac collapse, the medical examiner’s office reported today. Full Story »
An investigation that began a year ago with the overdose of an inmate at a Newport News correctional facility culminated Thursday in the arrest of 22 people in what federal officials call "a major heroin drug trafficking ring." Full Story »
Virginia showed a slight increase in the number of inmates statewide, but the prison populations of 20 other states fell in 2008, according to figures released yesterday by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Full Story »
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell appointed Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling his administration's new jobs czar Thursday and made it a position in his cabinet. Full Story »
The York-Poquoson Sheriff's office is asking for help locating a Newport News man wanted in connection with a string of vehicle break-ins last month. Full Story »
— New students are being lost from college classrooms because they don't understand math or writing or science well enough to get into a credit-level course, and must repeat the entry course. That leads to frustration, which leads to drop-outs, and that's costing students and taxpayers nationwide, community college officials say. Full Story »
A Newport, R.I., man was sentenced Friday in Norfolk Federal Court to 40 months in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography. Full Story »
York County investigators say a truck was stolen from the Grafton School Complex at around 8 a.m. Thursday morning. Two suspects have since been taken into custody. Full Story »
The Navy relieved both the Commanding Officer and Executive Officer of the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-based USS Fort McHenry Friday. Full Story »
A Newport News woman has been charged with Filing a False Police Report. Full Story »
Virginia Beach police are searching for the suspect who sexually assaulted a woman in her home early Friday morning. Full Story »
York County investigators say a truck was stolen from the Grafton School Complex at around 8 a.m. Thursday morning. Two suspects have since been taken into custody. Full Story »
The Navy relieved both the Commanding Officer and Executive Officer of the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-based USS Fort McHenry Friday. Full Story »
A Newport News woman has been charged with Filing a False Police Report. Full Story »
Virginia Beach police are searching for the suspect who sexually assaulted a woman in her home early Friday morning. Full Story »
Using social media, Old Dominion University students in Norfolk pulled off an impressive flash mob on campus Thursday night. Full Story »
Norfolk, Va.-- Sunday, December 13 is the last day for Norfolk citizens to bring bulk waste and debris to the city drop-off sites at Community Beach and Tarrallton Park. All other neighborhood drop-off sites are now closed, and the Division of Waste Management is asking citizens to bring bulk waste items only to the Community Beach and Tarrallton Park neighborhood sites through Sunday from 8:00 ... Full Story »
Norfolk, Va.- The Navy has relieved the commanding officer of the USS Fort McHenry of his command. Full Story »
Virginia Beach police are searching for a man who sexual assaulted a woman at knifepoint in her home in the Magic Hollow subdivision. Full Story »
Hampton police say a city man died early this morning after he repeatedly swung a sword at officers and was tasered. Full Story »
An ODU spokeswoman told NewsChannel 3 no arrests were made and no students were pepper sprayed, but video on the flash mob's Facebook fan page clearly shows officers pepper spraying students in the library. Full Story »
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Mason Kellem enjoys pizza with Santa at the Princess Anne firehouse. After Santa’s official arrival in Princess Anne, children were treated to pizza, drinks, desserts, and the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Full Story »
Congratulations to the Delmar football team on its state championship. You should be very proud. Thank you Fire Chief Joe Morris Jr. for ignoring the naysayers and giving the team the welcome back to town that it deserved. Full Story »
SALISBURY -- City and county residents said Monday night that they want to feel safe in their neighborhoods and businesses and called for officials to end their bickering and start working together. Full Story »
City Council was in no danger of violating the N.C. Open Meetings Law by considering proposed taxicab rule changes at the end of the Nov. 30 joint meeting with county officials, an expert on local government procedures said this week. Full Story »
Like many local teachers, Denota Heiskool knows what it’s like to be on a tight budget. So when she and 484 other Elizabeth City-Pasquotank teachers were invited to help themselves to a few free school supplies, Heiskool didn’t hesitate. Full Story »
Administrators at Mid-Atlantic Christian University are searching for the persons believed to be responsible for posting a racist, threatening letter at various locations on the university’s campus. Full Story »
While other counties struggling through the recession wonder where the revenue will come from if natural or financial disaster strikes, tiny Camden County currently doesn’t have such worries. Full Story »
If hundreds of sponsors don’t step forward soon, children in more than 400 Currituck families could wake up Christmas morning to an empty tree. Full Story »
YORK -- The Sheriff's Office has arrested two men in connection with the theft of two vechicles, one of them from New Jersey. Full Story »
WILLIAMSBURG -- How little difference a year makes. Full Story »
JAMES CITY – Although they briefly considered it Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors would not authorize a bid for the Colonial Golf Course at next Thursday's foreclosure auction. Full Story »
YORK -- Late on the night of Nov. 21 and early the next morning, several vehicles in the lower York neighborhoods of Marlbank, Edgehill, Tabb Woods and Carys Chapel were rummaged through and items stolen. Full Story »
WILLIAMSBURG — City Council remains intent on modifying the 3-person rule in neighborhoods near the college campus, despite unified opposition by the Planning Commission. Full Story »
Colington firefighters received a call for a possible structure fire in the 1000 block of Colington Road shortly after 9 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 4. Full Story »
The Dare County Superior Court has ruled in favor of Cape Hatteras Electric Membership Corporation, now operating as Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative, in a complaint filed by the cooperative in November of 2000 concerning sales and franchise taxes the N.C. Department of Revenue collected beginning in 2000 and 2001. Full Story »
They were tiny and very vulnerable during the recent nor'easter that parked itself off of the North Carolina coast. Full Story »
The 'Veteran's Day Nor'easter' provided some interesting discoveries for beachcombers on the Outer Banks. Full Story »
On Saturday, Nov. 21, at 12:15 p.m., Alligator River and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Law Enforcement Officer Jay Eddy received a call that a body had washed ashore on the beach at the north end of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. Full Story »
Jackass Penguins take a walk at Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Japan. AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye
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