Chesapeake VA

A rental car company employee was convicted April 24 on several related bank robbery and weapons charges after stealing a sedan from the rental company where he worked and using it to rob a credit union and two banks.

All lanes on I-264E near the I-64 interchange in Norfolk, Va. are currently closed due to a brush fire, with traffic being diverted onto exit 14B.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A woman was injured after a shooting on Radnor Road in Norfolk Sunday morning, according to the Norfolk Police Department. On April 26 at around 8:45 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 8400 block of Radnor Road. When officers arrived to the scene, they found a woman with a gunshot wound. […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) has successfully completed sea trials on April 24, marking the early successful completion of its Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY). According to DVIDS, a “PIA is a scheduled period for an aircraft carrier to undergo extensive maintenance, repairs, and modernization to […]

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. --- The Norfolk State women's track and field team posted three top-10 finishes at the Penn Relays on Friday and Saturday. The 4x400-meter relay team of Autumn Burrell, Jada Arrington, Jahmei Wyatt, and Payton Drumwright led the Spartans, placing fifth in the prelims with a time of 3:44.57. The group followed with a fifth-place finish in the finals, clocking...

NORFOLK, Va. — A Norfolk home on East 27th Street was damaged by fire Saturday evening. The fire was reported at 10 p.m., and arriving firefighters found a two-story home with smoke coming from the second floor and smoldering fire on the porch, according to Norfolk Fire-Rescue. Residents had extinguished a fire on the front porch before firefighters arrived, but the fire traveled...

Norfolk Fire-Rescue responded to a residential fire in the 700 block of East 27th Street Saturday night, and was able to extinguish the fire before it extended into the house, with no injuries reported and the cause of the fire currently under investigation.

SUFFOLK, Va. — A man has died after a vehicle struck him Saturday night in Suffolk, according to police. Officers with the Suffolk Police Department responded around 9:12 p.m. to the intersection of Bridge Road and Bennetts Creek Lane for a reported crash involving a pedestrian. When officers arrived,...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A residential structure fire occurred Saturday near the Portlock section of Chesapeake, according to officials. Chesapeake Fire Department crews were on scene on Saturday. Firefighters were dispatched to the 600 block of Muddy Creek Road after receiving calls from neighbors reporting the blaze. While units were en route, crews saw heavy […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Lafayette Park was a sea of purple on Saturday as hundreds of survivors, families, and researchers gathered for PurpleStride Hampton Roads, an annual event dedicated to raising awareness and critical funding for pancreatic cancer research. Roughly 185 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer every day in the United States, according to […]