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GRAFTON, Va. (WAVY) – A 65-year-old Hampton man was arrested Wednesday after deputies said he threatened a grocery store employee with a gun during a robbery at a Kroger on George Washington Memorial Highway. Winston Tracy Lewis faces a felony robbery charge following the Jan. 28 incident. Investigators with the...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A man was killed Friday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash on Hawksley Drive in Chesapeake, police said. Officers responded around 1:08 p.m. to the 4000 block of Hawksley Drive, which is in the Western Branch section of the city. Police found that a vehicle had left the roadway and struck a tree....

A pair of siblings in Virginia is behind bars over the ambush-style shooting and killing of another man, police in the Old Dominion say. Re'Al Butler, 24, and J.C. Butler, 25, stand accused of one count each of murder in the first degree, conspiracy to commit murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony,...

NORFOLK, Va. — Students at St. Helena Elementary in the Berkley neighborhood of Norfolk got a big surprise. Their teachers led them to the library to pick out five free books. “What do you have? ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ ‘Bluey’ and a Bluey ‘lock’ book,” a...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY)– Police in Chesapeake have arrested a man in connection to the 2024 murder of his nephew. According to police, 46-year-old Dannel Hill is accused of murdering 32-year-old Donte Parrish in December 2024. Chesapeake police confirmed Hill is the uncle of the victim. Chesapeake Police officers were...

Nearly five decades after the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cuyahoga sank in the Chesapeake Bay, siblings Doug Carter and Katie Lemon keep their brother's memory alive.

Portsmouth police are searching for 15-year-old Jylunden Jones. He was last seen in the 1500 Block of Ekstine Drive on Jan. 28 around 7 p.m.

Two people have died and four people were injured in a fire that engulfed an apparent boarding house on West County Street outside of Phoebus. Read more: https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/fire-engulfs-hampton-structure/

WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia — Authorities have identified the man who was shot and killed by police after a stabbing outside a Williamsburg-area store earlier this week. The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office said Stephen Thomas Ball, 33, of Newport, North Carolina, was the offender in the Jan. 28 incident at Ross Dress for...

Pictured: an image posted to the “RVA ICE SCREAM” Facebook page. The group is described as an “Ice Sightings Report Group”. The caption read in part: “This is on the Eastern Shore side of the CBBT… this trap will get anyone coming from the Norfolk side.”