49+ min ago   (1552+ words) During the summer of Johnny Morrison’s junior year at Washington and Lee University while working at a Norfolk shipyard, he was arrested alongside two friends when leaving a Norfolk nightclub. One of them had fought with a white man on…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (139+ words) Four people were injured, including three who suffered life-threatening injuries, in a two-vehicle crash Saturday night on the 22nd Street Bridge, according to Chesapeake police. Police responded to the bridge at about 10:19 p.m. Saturday for a report of a crash involving two…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (511+ words) Portsmouth Police Chief Stephen Jenkins recently challenged all of us to think differently about public safety, saying, “We can’t arrest our way to safer communities.” Law enforcement plays a critical role in keeping our communities safe, but police officers cannot…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (392+ words) A Virginia Beach sailor was pardoned by President Donald Trump last week after spending four years in federal prison for possessing and selling unregistered weapons. Patrick Tate Adamiak, a former Navy master at arms, was convicted in federal court and…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (413+ words) Three of the six teenagers accused of participating in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old in Portsmouth appeared in court Wednesday, facing robbery and shooting charges for the second time since December. The teens’ original charges — including aggravated murder, several…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (164+ words) NEWPORT NEWS — A man died and a woman was wounded in what police said is a domestic-related shooting early Thursday morning. At 1:55 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 1000 block of 30th Street for a shooting, according to a release. That’s a…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1375+ words) Lloyd Moskowitz sat in his Brooklyn dispatch office 25 years ago listening to technicians with a cell service company update him on their repairs to a faulty 911 system over the weekend. It was after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. People were beginning to trickle…...

3+ day, 18+ 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, 20+ 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, 20+ 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…...