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Looking for something useful or fun without spending a dime? Hampton neighbors are giving away all kinds of free items this week — from furniture to firewood and even a piano!

Williamsburg won’t move forward with a plan to vet off-campus student rentals after it received tepid feedback from landlords. “There has been great support, but it seems like it's waning,” Mayor Doug Pons said during Monday’s council meeting. “Certainly don’t want to jump into a program that’s not going to be successful.

Looking for something useful or fun without spending a dime? Here are a few free items currently being offered by neighbors around Newport News, VA. From home appliances to kids’ play gear, there’s a little something for everyone.

A family is healing as the man responsible for their loved one’s murder in Newport News in 2023 learned his sentence.

WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- The nation’s founding story comes together stitch by stitch in “America’s Tapestry,” on view June 19-Sept. 6 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary. The exhibition will commemorate America’s 250th anniversary with 13 hand-embroidered panels, one for each of the original colonies, telling unique stories drawn from each state’s Revolutionary-era history. Communally stitched by artisans from New Hampshire to Georgia...

GLOUCESTER COUNTY, Va. — A Gloucester man has been taken into custody after over two days on the run, according to the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office. Law enforcement has been looking for Douglas Neil Hegamyer since Saturday, when the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office says he was involved in an altercation with another male involving a firearm. He allegedly ran into the woods in the area...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Norfolk man has been sentenced to federal prison following a joint investigation into drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession in Virginia Beach and Norfolk. On March 20, Dyron E. Holloway, 36, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, according to the Virginia Beach...

Monday, April 6, students of the College of William and Mary voted to approve a referendum calling on the College to cancel its contract with ZeroEyes, a surveillance company that specializes in AI-enabled firearm detection. The ZeroEyes referendum follows students’ approval of two earlier referendums on Flock AI-powered surveillance cameras,...

NORFOLK, Va. — A Norfolk man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for laundering funds obtained through a fraudulent pandemic relief scheme, federal prosecutors said. According to court records, 39-year-old Brian Renard Manley Jr. secured $350,000 through a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application submitted...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News police have arrested a woman in connection with a hit-and-run crash last fall that seriously injured an 8-year-old boy. After more than four months of investigative work, 27-year-old Deanna Pulley was arrested on March 25 of this year. The crash happened on Nov....