Newport News

The Ferguson Center has been red hot when it comes to oldies shows recently. ZZ Top, Smokey Robinson, Darlene Love and Joan Jett have all played the Newport News theater in 2013.

The Woman's Club of Newport News is opening its 37th annual "Santa House" on Friday.

There is nothing quite like a family band. And among family bands, there is nothing quite like The Wooten Brothers.

On the front page is an article about an educational program in York County, and you have identified Jamestown Settlement as being in Williamsburg.

Employees of First Med EMS with operations on the Peninsula were told they no longer had jobs on Saturday as the business had shuttered.

A 22-year-old man is wanted by Hampton police after two women reported that someone fired several rounds at them early Saturday morning.

A 29-year-old Newport News man was arrested Friday and charged with stealing and damaging property at Harpersville Road Car Wash.

The 90,000-square foot building triples the school's instructional space. It includes eight computer labs, two video teleconferencing classrooms, a physics lab and a 600-seat gymnasium.

Beginning that morning and continuing into the afternoon, six giant American battleships passed through the Virginia Capes and made their way into Hampton Roads, where they joined eight other monster warships already anchored in two 4-mile-long crescent lines that began a stone's throw from the Hotel Chamberlin at Old Point Comfort.

Kenny Rogers is a pop-country giant, a man known for his raspy love ballads and folksy story songs.

A Newport News mother has been arrested after police located her one-year-old child allegedly left alone in a car at a Kohl's store last Friday.

An overturned Army vehicle is blocking one lane of westbound traffic on Interstate 64 near Fort Eustis in Newport News.

The Navy recently christened the USS Gerald Ford in Newport News, Virginia, with considerable fanfare and the traditional smashing of a bottle of champagne across the bow of the ship - the most technologically advanced aircraft carrier the United States has built.

It seemed like yesterday when my mother, "Miss Emily" Bundick, was saying her goodbyes to the 30th group of Camp Occohannock counselors and young people following the 2013 camping season.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Ship's Sponsor Susan Ford Bales, daughter of President Gerald R. Ford, christens the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford during a ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding.

Both Dinwiddie and L.C. Bird host football state semifinal games Saturday. The Dinwiddie Generals face Heritage out of Newport News and L.C. Bird hosts Salem from Virginia Beach.

Students and staff at Lee Hall Elementary were evacuated from the school for about 40 minutes Friday afternoon as Newport News fire crews responded to a fire alarm caused by a malfunctioning water fountain, a school spokeswoman said.

In clinical trials, the polymerase inhibitor, the first used in hepatitis C treatment, has shown a more than 90 percent success rate in curing the deadly virus that causes liver failure and cancer of the liver .

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has officially opened its new Apprentice School, located at 3101 Washington Ave. in downtown Newport News.

Kenny Rogers is scheduled to perform a Christmas concert at Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.