Chesapeake VA

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A man in Chesapeake is lucky to be alive, as a group of Good Samaritans helped rescue him Wednesday after his car ran off the road and into the waters of Indian Creek, trapping him in the car as it began to sink. Resident Chris Kenny said he was driving home from dinner […]

Old Dominion University is asking current students to answer questions about their criminal histories after an ROTC instructor was killed and two students were injured. The perpetrator was also a student and pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges in 2017, for which he spent eight years in prison. Framing the...

BARCO, N.C. — A shelter-in-place order was briefly implemented at Currituck County High School on Friday afternoon following reports of an altercation outside the building and a possible weapon on campus, the school division said. School officials and local police investigated the incident and determined there was no...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Callahan Kessler, a 25-year-old former Navy sailor, was recently sentenced to serve four years for the assault of malicious wounding, strangling, and abduction of his ex-wife. His ex-wife, the victim, ran away from Virginia to escape Kessler’s abuse in 2024, according to a press release. Kessler...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Chesapeake police have charged a man with several crimes that happened at a school bus stop on Friday morning. According to Chesapeake Police Department, police officers responded to a bus stop in the South Norfolk area around 7:40 a.m. Friday based on reports of a disorderly individual. Before...

The Chesapeake 168 Expressway at Hanbury Road was partially closed due to a crash Saturday morning, according to Chesapeake Roads on Twitter.

Kenya Chapman, the Smithfield man facing multiple charges connected to his sale of a gun to Mohamed Bailor Jalloh — the man who opened fire at ODU last week — pleaded not guilty to gun charges.

ODU is hosting the event at the Chartway Arena, 4320 Hampton Blvd., on Sunday, March 22 at 1 p.m. Doors will open at noon.

HRSD crews managed to stop a sewage overflow in Portsmouth, Virginia on Thursday afternoon after 336,000 gallons of sewage discharged, with road repairs expected to be completed by Friday and safety precautions advised for recreational activities in the affected areas.

Below is a news release from District SouthEast. I would have thought the press release would have at least mentioned Forward’s interception of a large semi-submersible (pictured above) with an estimated 17,600 lbs of cocaine which sank before the cargo could be off-loaded, rather than leaving it as if Forward had...