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Two Virginians woke up Thursday morning as millionaires, after two winning tickets were sold in the Powerball lottery in Spotsylvania and Carrollton. As the Barenaked Ladies tune goes, the winner might buy a house, a nice automobile, a tree fort in your yard, an exotic pet, maybe a monkey, and even some art, a...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — A Portsmouth woman has been sentenced to more than a year in prison for a 2022 crash that killed her passenger while she was driving under the influence. On Friday, a judge sentenced Tiffanie Wallace to one year and eight months behind bars, followed by three years of supervised probation.

Portsmouth Street renamed to honor deceased Reverend.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A motorcyclist was reported dead after exceeding speeds of 140 mph on Interstate 264 W, according to Virginia State Police. The incident happened around 1:24 a.m., when a VSP trooper noticed the motorcyclist traveling over 100 mph in a 55 mph zone. After the trooper turned on their lights the...

Friday marked 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall and caused devastation along the Gulf Coast.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Cousinz Festival and JustUs Ideas partnered Friday to put on a non-partisan pre-festival summit at the Waterside District in downtown Norfolk. The summit included state and national organizations, as well as leaders focusing on educating, training and mobilizing around culture, criminal justice...

On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans, New 3's Anchor Kurt Williams spoke with Lydell Decquir and his wife, Kellie, who left New Orleans and ended up in Hampton Roads.

News 3 was at the scene of an incident, where a car appeared to have crashed into a house in Norfolk.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — If you’ve driven on the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway in Portsmouth recently, you may have been asking what those tall towers at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal are. Well, here’s what they are. Drone 10 flew over the terminal, where wind turbines for Dominion Energy’s offshore wind project...

Inside the Seawater Research Lab at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point, rows of water tanks hold specimens from around the region. All sorts of marine creatures are studied. But the newest additions are a first for VIMS: stone crabs. Stone crabs, which have strong, bulky claws...