Newport News

Newport News , Hampton , York, Isle of Wight , Surry and Sussex are likely to see widespread showers and thunderstorms before midnight.

Destination: Longhorn Steakhouse. 108 Market Place Drive, Hampton. 757-896-1100.

The building would be located at the New Horizons Regional Education Center and funded jointly by other participating school divisions Superintendent Ashby Kilgore and members of the Newport News School Board prepare to walk for Woodside High School's graduation.

Visitors who take the liberty of getting to know the Courtyard Williamsburg Busch Gardens Area are in for a treat now that a multi-million dollar renovation project has been completed.

A 19-year-old man was seriously injured Tuesday morning after being struck by vehicle during a hit-and-run on Harpersville Road, police said.

The inactivated nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is being taken to Newport News Shipbuilding, where the nuclear fuel aboard the ship will be removed.

Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash that left a 54-year-old Newport News woman dead Sunday night.

A special book sale will take place at the West Avenue Library in Newport News Thursday, June 20 through Saturday, June 22. During the sale, children's books and VHS tapes will cost 25 cents, 50 cents for paperbacks, $1 for CDs and DVDs and $1 to $3 for hardbacks.

Newport News -based W.M. Jordan Co. is partnering with the city, Virginia Tech and a Georgia company in a $250 million development, including a research park, at Oyster Point Road and Jefferson Avenue, Inside Business reported.

Newport News, Isle of Wight and Surry counties are among dozen localities in Virginia getting state grants to place school resource officers in public schools.

Newport News police are searching for the driver of a pickup truck who hit a pedestrian and left the scene.

Sunday around 9:05 p.m. officers say a driver struck a woman walking. The woman died at the scene.

He was born June 19, 1943, in Newport News, the son of Stanley E. and Patricia A. Gula.

I was disappointed, although not entirely surprised, when the Southern Baptist Convention resolved to withdraw its support of the Boy Scouts because of their recent affirmation of the inclusion of children regardless of their sexual orientation.

Some wind gusts from yesterday: 66mph at Fort Eustis, 64mph from the Newport News Airport, and 61mph from Jennette's Pier near Nags Head.

On April 30, Raymond Isaiah Seawright, 22, of the 1200 block of 27th Street in Newport News, was killed in a a shooting in the early morning hours of April 30. Police said he died at about 1:15 a.m., and about a month and a half after the incident, they're still trying to figure out who shot him.

More than 12,000 Hampton Roads residents were without power about a day after a line of strong thunderstorms passed through the area, and some may not have it restored until Sunday.

Crews got to work early Friday morning in the Carlton Falls neighborhood of Newport News, putting tarps over damaged roofs that just last night, were covered with trees.

Editors' note: For three Saturdays, we are featuring letters to the editor from the fifth-grade class at St. Andrews Episcopal School in Newport News .

The man, in his early 20s, suffered "significant" burns on 10 to 15 percent of his body after a fire, which was ruled accidental, started on the 1200 block of 28th St. shortly before 2:30 p.m., according to a police news release.