Newport News

Bill Jenkins is a bluegrass guitar player, but he was deeply influenced by the blues.

A 25-year-old man entered a guilty plea Wednesday on charges connected to four homicides between 2009 and 2010.

A Pit Bull attacked a 6-year-old girl over the weekend in Newport News and will have to be put down.

With a wicked winter nearly behind us, it's a fine time to shake your lucky charms and celebrate St. Patrick's Day like a leaping leprechaun.

A repeat sex offender will spend 336 months in jail after he was found with more than 40,000 images of child pornography on his computer and thumb drives.

Barr's hiring was announced Wednesday. She will replace Police Chief Sheldon Levi who has been doubling as acting town manager in recent months.

Immanuel Baptist Church in Saluda will celebrate the 22nd anniversary of Pastor Calvin Rideau on Sunday, March 23. Rev.

The Virginia Board of Medicine suspended the license of family physician and pain management doctor Roger M.Phillips on Feb. 20. His practice, Prime Care Family Medicine, at 755 Thimble Shoals Blvd. in Oyster Point is temporarily closed to all patients.

Today, however, Witts is rethinking those plans. On Tuesday afternoon a stray bullet from a neighborhood shootout struck his neighbor's 49th Street home.

An accident at the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel northbound is blocking all traffic, which is backed up to College Drive.

Looking for a job? Put on your business clothes to talk to potential employees at a job fair in Newport News next week.

An 18-year-old has been charged in an afternoon shooting Tuesday in the area of the Brooke Ridge Apartments.

Opening arguments began in Newport News Circuit Court Wednesday in the capital murder trial against John Ragin.

Like pollen in the air and lengthening days, rising gas prices are among the annual signals that spring is near.

Newport News City Council members voted Tuesday to tighten the rules that govern what they can and can't charge the city when it comes to conference trip expenses, meals where they discuss city business and mileage.

A Newport News elementary school was briefly placed on lockdown Tuesday afternoon as city police responded to a report of shots close to a neighboring gas station, a school spokeswoman said.

Newport News has the 4th largest police department in all of Virginia, with 440 sworn officers serving a population of more than 187,000.

The Culinary Institute of Virginia is staging a Peninsula Culinary Clash on the afternoon of Friday, March 14, to officially open its City Center campus in Newport News .

This image from a surveillance camera shows the women leaving Target on Jefferson Avenue about an hour after the cards were stolen from a woman at Trader Joes.

The James River Expedition has High School students paddling down the James River to Chickahominy Riverfront Park by canoes.