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VIRGINIA BEACH Inside a tiny brown building on Dam Neck Road, the Mosquito Lady and her apprentices poke through petri dishes and count bodies. One mosquito... two mosquitoes... three mosquitoes... four... This part of the job can be mind-numbing. But it's the only way to calculate just how thick the mosquitoes are and where to direct the defenses.

Scientists are closely watching unusually high tides along the entire East Coast, especially in mid-Atlantic states including Virginia, where average daily levels are running between 6 inches and 2 feet above predicted norms.

VIRGINIA BEACH Top business leaders have come out against the city holding a referendum on a light-rail project, arguing it's a decision the City Council should make.

NORFOLK Each day when Corey Bryant and his wife, Heaven Smith, left for work, they left their 10-month-old twin daughters home alone, strapped into infant seats. Sometimes the couple left the babies home alone so they could go out to eat or to the movies. Bryant gave the girls cold medicine so they would sleep.

SUFFOLK The city is thinking about moving its annual Christmas parade from downtown to its newer, faster growing Harbour View community to the north. City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glenn suggested the idea in a July 8 letter to council members.

NORFOLK -- Thousands of people across Hampton Roads were without power late Friday afternoon as severe weather passed through the region.

SUFFOLK – Fire destroyed one apartment and damaged two others Friday evening. Crews were called to Sandler Pond Apartments on Sandy Spring Lane around 4:30 p.m.

NORFOLK (AP) -- A federal jury has convicted two men charged in the murder-for-hire of a sailor. Michael Draven, of Newport News, and David Runyon, of Morgantown, W.Va., were convicted Friday of murder, conspiracy to commit murder for hire and carjacking. They were acquitted of a robbery charge.

CHESAPEAKE – About 2,400 miles separate Glendale, Arizona from Chesapeake, Virginia. By car, it would take you about a-day-and-a-half to drive from one to the other.

NORFOLK – A man accused in the death of his 10-month-old daughter was expected to testify in his own defense Friday, but that won't occur until next week.

Hampton locales named with NASA-related names Mercury Boulevard (Route 258): Project Mercury, NASA's first human spaceflight program, which was directed from Langley.

ISLE OF WIGHT — On Thursday, Carrollton Elementary School custodian Patricia Hunter was making $12.86 an hour.

The sale of family-owned Ukrop's Super Markets Inc., the dominant grocer in the Richmond market until last year, could alter the area's already splintered supermarket landscape significantly, analysts said yesterday.

NEWPORT NEWS — A robbery victim was shot in the back as he ran away from three men who had accosted him in Newport News on Thursday night.

Ask any expert on space exploration what NASA Langley's most important contribution to Apollo 11 was and the answer is the same.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CITY OF RICHMOND IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA... SOUTHEASTERN HANOVER COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA... NORTHERN HENRICO COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA... WESTERN KING WILLIAM COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... NORTHWESTERN NEW KENT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT * AT 1121 PM ...

We all know that wrestlers wrestle. But, how do they get to that point? This week, Ahmed Fareed took a trip to find out at a wrestling training center here in town.

New York (WTNH) - A CBS executive says retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has died at his home in New York. He was 92.

WASHINGTON (CBS News) - CBS News is reporting that Walter Cronkite, legendary CBS news anchorman has died.

TORNADO WATCH 594 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN NORTH CAROLINA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA BERTIE CAMDEN CHOWAN CURRITUCK GATES HERTFORD NORTHAMPTON PASQUOTANK PERQUIMANS IN VIRGINIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA PRINCE GEORGE IN EAST CENTRAL VIRGINIA CHARLES CITY GLOUCESTER LANCASTER MIDDLESEX NEW KENT ...

Riverside Regional Medical Center has ended days of speculation with the announcement it will continue to provide level two trauma services.

The entire shooting took seconds, and then a Cox High School Senior lay dead outside a children's play center. That fact was revealed Friday at a preliminary hearing in Virginia Beach.

An SUV hit a culvert and flipped on Shillelagh Road in Chesapeake Friday morning. The driver died at the scene.

The Eastern Drug Task Force netted 33 arrests during its 14 month long investigation called "Operation Bait and Hook." Police also seized about $79,000 worth of marijuana, 10 firearms and $2,800 in cash.

A 30-year-old woman was arrested on sex charges after police say she had sexual realtions with a teenaged boy.

( CBS) The "most trusted man in America" is gone.

Virginia is now requiring Yoga studio's that train future yoga teachers to be licensed by the state. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia says Virginia code requires them to certify and license the Yoga schools because they teach someone a vocation. In other words, the Yoga schools are considered to be schools of higher learning.

State police this morning identified the three people killed in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 64 in Newport News last night, as well as the driver who survived the crash and who has been charged with reckless driving.

Tonight's Shagging on the Riverwalk concert series at the Yorktown riverfront has been cancelled due to severe weather, according to the York County Web site. The next concert event will be held July 24, the site said.

Nearly 300 people hoping to get season tickets for Old Dominion's return to the gridiron have been turned away because there aren't enough available seats at Foreman Field.

RICHMOND, Va. — Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder shared his front-row perspective on history Friday during a conference marking the demise of state-sanctioned school segregation in Virginia.

MELFA — Nearly $80,000 worth of marijuana was seized and 33 people arrested Thursday morning in a sweep conducted by the Eastern Shore Drug Task Force.

OCEAN CITY Winds: SW at 8 MPH Waves: 0-4 Feet Water temperature: 74 degrees High tide: 2:57 p.m. Low tide: 9:27 p.m. Surfing beaches: Inlet, 58th and 138th streets Dangerous conditions: Low risk of rip currents — Source: Surfline.com, Ocean City Beach Patrol

OCEAN CITY Winds: SW at 8 MPH Waves: 0-4 Feet Water temperature: 74 degrees High tide: 2:57 p.m. Low tide: 9:27 p.m. Surfing beaches: 59th and 139th streets

I have been to Kingston, Ontario, a nice little town located at the east end of Lake Ontario. With a population nearly five times that of Salisbury, it is far behind our city in medical facilities. That is the Canadian health care plan some want so strongly.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have confirmed that the suspect in Wednesday’s bank robbery in Edenton is believed to be the same man who recently robbed four other banks in North Carolina and South Carolina.

The filing period for this fall’s municipal elections ended Friday with three more candidates signing up for city council races in Elizabeth City.

An unassuming 16-foot yellow powerboat with two 20-something sisters aboard stopped along the Elizabeth City waterfront Friday, drawing questions about a water-bound journey they launched in early June.

EDENTON — A report by the State Auditor’s Office finds no criminal wrongdoing in last summer’s near financial meltdown in Chowan County.

CURRITUCK — Currituck planners have signed off on a measure that not only sets new guidelines for outdoor commercial displays and storage but also streamlines the approval process for them.

NEWPORT NEWS -- A York County man is among three people who have died following a single-car crash Thursday evening on Interstate 64 near Jefferson Avenue.

JAMES CITY -- A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a series of thefts from vehicles parked at residences in the county.

YORK - The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the possibility that three home burglaries in the upper end of the county could be linked.

WILLIAMSBURG — Since January, 66 people facing homelessness, including children, have been able to find shelter and support locally through a new pilot program led by the Salvation Army and United Way of Greater Williamsburg.

WILLIAMSBURG — Claiming that the Greater Williamsburg Chamber & Tourism Alliance has done too little to combat the area’s slumping visitation numbers, 33 tourism-related businesses announced Tuesday that they were quitting the organization.

A Dare County businessman pled guilty Monday in Wake County Superior Court to tax charges filed by the North Carolina Department of Revenue.

A pair of three-year-old court cases that have been weaving their way through the court system from Mecklenburg and Dare counties to US Bankruptcy Court are now heading back to Dare County Superior Court after spending a little more than a year before a bankruptcy judge.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash of a biplane with passengers aboard into an unoccupied parked plane at the Dare County Regional Airport on Saturday.

A Superior Court judge signed a consent order on Monday ordering the Dare County Tourism Board to provide three draft settlement agreement documents to the Sentinel. The records pertained to the separation agreement entered into between the board and its former director, Carolyn McCormick.

An explosion on Saturday in an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer carrying fireworks for the annual July 4th celebration on Ocracoke Island has now claimed the lives of four victims and has left one in fair condition. The victims were employees of Melrose Pyrotechnics of South Carolina and were on or near the vehicle when the blast occurred.