Robert Cross' lunch break today isn't one he'll soon forget. The 45-year-old Plant Supervisor/Safety Director at PlymKraft in Newport News was surprised by the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol with a $10,000 check. Full Story »
"I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts," Kaine, who is known for carefully considering death penalty cases, said in a statement. "Accordingly, I decline to intervene." Full Story »
A Virginia Beach police officer is no longer appealing his drunk driving conviction. Full Story »
A winning lottery ticket purchased in Virginia Beach last spring is about to expire, and Virginia Lottery officials are looking for the person holding it. Full Story »
The promoter Live Nation has announced ticket prices for rap star Jay-Z's upcoming show at Norfolk Scope. Full Story »
The former Hampton University student who came back to campus earlier this year and opened fire on two people, then himself, will be sentenced in Hampton Circuit Court today. Full Story »
One of the Virginia Beach jurors who sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death is speaking up. Full Story »
By most standards, $220,000 a year is a lot of money, especially when it's coming from taxpayers and all going to one person. Jim Spore will tell you you get what you pay for. And for 18 years, Virginia Beach has paid him quite nicely to be its city manager. Full Story »
Robert Bauman, the original burgermeister for Busch Gardens, died Saturday. He was 95. Full Story »
— A gigantic block with portholes, NASA Langley Research Center's latest undertaking looks like a geometric escape pod. Full Story »
For Angela Bogdanowicz, it's moments like this that she would like to wrap up in a box and send to her husband Ed, who's serving in Iraq. Full Story »
It looks like a dolphin, but this is a Sowerby's Beaked Whale. It's the second one to wash up in Hampton Roads this year. The first one was in January on the Eastern Shore. Full Story »
Three people have been injured in a small plane crash in South Carolina. Full Story »
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth has received a limited supply of H1N1 vaccine in nasal spray and injectable form and has begun vaccinating its high-risk patients. Full Story »
John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week spree in 2002 across Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Muhammad still has a clemency petition before Governor Kaine. Full Story »
The rare, 14-foot-long whale washed up on Buckroe Beach Sunday morning. Now, researchers are trying to figure out why. Full Story »
Virginia Military Institute plans to review its training procedures following the death of a freshman who collapsed after completing a 10-mile march. Full Story »
It happened seven years ago. The leaves were falling, just like now. As a nation, we were staggering through the first anniversary of 9/11. Then someone began hunting humans around the country's capital and beyond. Full Story »
NEWPORT NEWS — Lt. J.D. Williams had only been on the Newport News police force a few years on an autumn night in 1969, when police were searching for three men wanted for burglaries in Franklin. Full Story »
WASHINGTON (AP) — A radical American imam on Yemen's most wanted militant list who had contact with two 9/11 hijackers praised alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as a hero on his personal Web site Monday. Full Story »
Three of the four Hampton Roads lawmakers voted against a House health care reform bill late Saturday, with one of them a Democrat who broke ranks with his party. Full Story »
The Virginia State Police is investigating a single-vehicle accident in New Kent County that killed three men. Full Story »
A rare, 14-foot-long beaked whale that appeared to have died recently was spotted Sunday morning washed ashore at Buckroe Beach. The beaked whale is a smaller species of whale with characteristics that look similar to a dolphin. It's rare to have one beach in Hampton Roads, Full Story »
KILLEEN, Texas -- A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso. Full Story »
The House of Representatives Saturday approved the most sweeping healthcare legislation since the creation of Medicare 44 years ago and gave an important boost to President Obama's campaign to guarantee health coverage to all Americans for the first time in history. Full Story »
A morning moonset peeks through the autumn foliage near Bradfordton, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman
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