Virginia Beach VA

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The Ocean Park Volunteer Rescue Squad is letting the public know about a mail mishap that left more than a dozen donations in limbo for more than a year. In January, the organization said it finally received a batch of donation checks that had been postmarked in late 2024. Due […]

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Chesapeake police are investigating after a teenager was shot Monday night. Police said they were called to the 1700 block of Acorn Street at 6:41 p.m. Monday for a report of gunshots heard. When police arrived at the scene, officers found a teenage boy with what...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Amtrak’s new schedule started Monday as the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority seeks to provide more service throughout Virginia, but it needs to make temporary adjustments to do so. Those temporary adjustments include buses replacing some of the Amtrak services in Norfolk and Newport News....

The mother of an 11-year-old boy with autism has sued Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs for $150 million, claiming employees of the special education provider mistreated him in a Virginia Beach classroom and contributed to his 2024 death. SECEP employees confined Josh Sikes, who had autism and limited...

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk police are asking for the public’s help in investigating a New Year’s Eve shooting that injured a prominent Ocean View citizen. The shooting happened at 11:55 p.m., in the 1800 block of East Ocean View Avenue, Norfolk police say. Officers found a 72-year-old woman suffering from a...

The city says from Tuesday, Jan. 13 through Friday, Jan. 16, there will be a lane closure on eastbound E. Little Creek Rd. between Granby St. and the I-64 overpass.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Although the average person might consider unauthorized procedures involving sterilization and unnecessary induced labor, as well as false diagnoses of cancer, to be “malpractice,” that is not the basis of a recent lawsuit against Chesapeake Regional Medical Center. The lawsuit was filed last...

Suspects sought after $300 theft at Bainbridge Boulevard discount store Norfolk, VA — Two individuals are wanted in connection with a theft at a discount store earlier this month after allegedly walking out with hundreds of dollars in unpaid merchandise. The incident occurred on January 4 at a retail location…

A Critically Missing Adult alert was issued for 26-year-old Daquantai Shane Thigpen. He was last seen on Jan. 11, 2026, around 11:00 a.m. leaving his apartment on Hurley Avenue.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – David Jarrett gave his wife an unexpectedly large Christmas gift. He told Lottery officials he always buys lottery tickets as stocking stuffers. This year, the ticket he put in his wife’s stocking was worth $150,000. It was the top prize in the Virginia Lottery Cash Vault scratcher game....