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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Keisha Wilson Cox was a dedicated mother, a social worker who cared for others and very much community-minded. On the day she died in a fire to her home on Weyanoke Drive, her daughter, Sahdiah Cox, had just returned home from buying her mother a Subway sub for lunch, and had […]

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY)– Crews in Norfolk responded to an apartment fire Monday night. According to officials, crews were called to the 500 block of West Ocean View Avenue just after 10 p.m. for the report of a residential structure fire. When crews arrived, they found a two-story multi-family residential structure with...

Family, friends, police, and city officials gathered to honor the two Virginia Beach Police officers who were killed in the line of duty one year ago, in a memorial service that included a moment of silence, prayers, and words of remembrance.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Three people have been displaced, and two people have been hospitalized, after a house fire on Hull Street in Newport News Sunday morning, according to the Newport News Fire Department. On Feb. 22 at around 9:53 a.m., the department responded to a house fire...

Thousands of gallons of jet fuel spilled into the James River at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division near Newport News, VA, Feb. 13 during a fuel transfer to the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79). The ship is the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which has been...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — A Virginia mom is advocating for proposed state legislation that would strengthen driver’s license requirements for people between the ages of 18 and 21. It’s a personal mission for Tammy Guido McGee. Her 16-year-old son Conner was killed in a crash in Yorktown in 2019. The driver was an...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY)– A man faces charges after police found several drugs and a firearm in Virginia Beach on February 20. According to police, officers with the First Precinct Crime Suppression Squad (CSS) executed a search warrant in the 700 block of Seahawk Circle after it was suspected that an illegal...

NORFOLK, Va. — Capt. Ray Glenn will assume command of Naval Station Norfolk as its 53rd commanding officer, relieving Capt. Matt Schlarmann during a ceremony on Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Vista Point Conference Center onboard NAVSTA Norfolk. Glenn previously served at Naval Station Norfolk as executive officer.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A Fort Eustis soldier was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for coercion and enticement of a child, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said. Brady Beck Fant, 32, used social media platforms to take part in sexually graphic conversation with girls who were...

Editor’s Note: The following story includes discussion of suicide. Reader and viewer discretion is advised. If you or someone you know are in crisis or are struggling, free, confidential support is available through the national Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 available in the U.S. There is also an online chat at...