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Virginia Beach courthouse gets all clear, but remains closed to public Tuesday after bomb threat

Gavin Stone — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:57:12 +0000

Virginia Beach's courts were evacuated and closed to the public Tuesday. Employees were allowed to reenter, but the courts will remain closed “to ensure the public’s safety” for the remainder of the day.

18-year-old charged with murder in fatal Virginia Beach shooting

Caitlyn Burchett — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:48:21 +0000

Cameron Mooty, 18, has been charged in connection to the shooting death of Evan Labella, also 18. Virginia Beach police say Labella and a second gunshot victim sought treatment at a local hospital, where Labella later died.

Dozens attend Chesapeake meeting to express outrage at After School Satan Club

Nour Habib — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:16:13 +0000

One speaker asked, “Would we allow a club to use Hitler as a symbol?”

Virginia receives over $60 million for coastal resiliency, conservation

Everett Eaton — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:44:38 +0000

Virginia will get over $30 million for coastal resiliency between the $10 million awarded in grants from the Coastal Resilience Fund and the rest in matching funds.

Norfolk church youth group leader convicted of traveling to commit a sexual act with a minor

Eliza Noe — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:44:25 +0000

Charles Willoughby, 39, was charged with traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, according to a news release Monday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. He will be sentenced in April.

After nearly 2 years distributing vaccines, clinic at Norfolk’s Military Circle mall will end

Eliza Noe — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:47:48 +0000

Since January 2021, over 155,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed at the site.

Former Virginia priest convicted of 1985 sex assault on teen

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:28:00 +0000

Scott Asalone, 65, the former priest at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Purcellville, pleaded to a single count of felony carnal knowledge of a minor. He faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in April.

Defense bill rolls back military vaccine mandate, but reinstatement for discharged service members is a sticking point

Caitlyn Burchett — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:51:01 +0000

Language in the $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which must now clear the Senate, currently leaves it up to each military branch to determine if they will reinstate anyone separated for refusal to take the vaccine.

Lawsuit against Virginia’s ban on slot-like skill games — filed by a former NASCAR driver — is heading to trial

Katie King — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:35:31 +0000

Former NASCAR driver Hermie Sadler is contesting the state's ban on skill games in court, in a case that he says is about "government overreach and protecting the free market system for small business owners."

Former Virginia superintendent indicted by grand jury investigating sexual assaults at high schools

Matthew Barakat — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:59:40 +0000

The former superintendent of a northern Virginia school system has been indicted on three misdemeanor charges by a special grand jury that investigated the response to two sexual assaults committed by a student last year.

Police identify 32-year-old killed in Newport News shooting

Gavin Stone — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:20:16 +0000

Newport News police identified the victim in a shooting Dec. 7 as James Curtis Jones.

Portsmouth man charged in Virginia Beach double shooting

Gavin Stone — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:25:07 +0000

Virginia Beach police charged 22-year-old William Wallace with shooting two people in the Atlantis Apartments complex on Thursday.

Public transit in D.C. is getting a boost: Free rides

Hope Yen — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:43:00 +0000

The nation’s capital is introducing a groundbreaking plan: It will begin offering free bus fares to residents next summer.

William & Mary student found dead on campus; no foul play suspected

Gavin Stone — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:44:57 +0000

It’s the second death of a William & Mary student in about a month.

Wild Thing, Chincoteague’s oldest pony, dies at 25

Eliza Noe — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:35:01 +0000

The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company announced the death Thursday in a Facebook post, noting Wild Thing was the longest living stallion in the herd in recent years. Cowboys in Chincoteague often called him the “Popes Island Stud.”