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YORK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY)– Yorktown Middle School and York River Academy were placed on a “secure” status Thursday following a possible threat, according to the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office. Deputies investigated the threat in the vicinity of the two schools. The campuses entered “secure,” meaning students and staff...

People stood outside Masjid Ash Shura in Norfolk with paint brushes and rollers in hand. Volunteers and members of the mosque worked together to cover the outline of Christian crosses that spanned the building’s walls. Security footage shows a white man appearing in his 30s vandalizing the building on...

Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division held the keel laying ceremony for the Virginia-class attack submarine Barb (SSN 804) Tuesday.

News 3 presented Roby Blanenship with an Everyday Hero award along with a $300 Visa gift card from our community partner Southern Bank.

GLOUCESTER, Va. (WAVY)– A suspect has been apprehended following a homicide in Gloucester County Thursday morning. According to officials, deputies were called to the 3000 block of George Washington Memorial Highway at 9 a.m. for the report of a person deceased from gunshot wounds. The suspect fled the area. The...

Stormwater runoff has become part of a growing, contentious debate around solar energy development in Virginia. Some residents and officials in rural areas complain of flooding and pollution around large solar sites. Developers argue that there are already requirements in place to mitigate the problem. Virginia Tech...

From 1907 to the early 1950s, three Black-owned and operated hotels existed in the Church Street Business Corridor. These three prime outlets were among the businesses which made up Norfolk’s “Black Wall Street,” like the historic enclave in Tulsa, Oklahoma destroyed by White rage in 1929. But...

A 36-year-old Norfolk man pleaded guilty Wednesday in Northampton Circuit Court to two counts of felony maiming while driving intoxicated, and a first offense of misdemeanor DUI that occurred in May 2023. In a proffer to the court, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Vincent deLalla said Ryan Douglas Halterman was a...

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. — The sister of murder victim Laurie Ann Powell is speaking out after the nearly 40-year-old cold case was solved. "If I had to describe her, I was the day she was the night. I was a Yin, and she was a Yang," said Cindy Kirchner.

NORFOLK, Va. — A man has received two life sentences for a 2023 shooting that killed a woman and seriously injured a man, leaving him paralyzed. Curtis Gerald Smith, 44, was sentenced to two life terms plus 13 years after he was found guilty at trial of first-degree murder, aggravated malicious wounding, two counts...