Newport News

Harpersville Road is closed near J Clyde Morris Boulevard due to a fallen tree and power lines in the roadway.

In the past year two City Council members have borrowed city cars for a combined 169 days, according to records obtained by the Daily Press.

Newport News Shipbuilding and NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton are feeling the pinch of budget uncertainty in Washington, but Sen. Tim Kaine says Congress might clear that up in the coming weeks.

A 27-year-old man who prosecuters said admitted to being a member of a Newport News gang pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to racketeering and firearm charges.

A woman was taken to a hospital this morning when a bullet went through the wall of her apartment and hit her in the face.

Jim Ridenhour, a retired Newport News, Va., firefighter, discovered that when he turned to metal scrapping as a way to pay for his daughter's wedding about two years ago.

With storm season less than two months away, the City of Newport News and Virginia Department of Transportation are finalizing plans to clear three sections of drainage ditches along Interstate 64 as it runs through the city.

Driving a test pile Long before actual construction on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel began in September 1960, engineers conducted months of test borings to determine the soil conditions along the crossing's route.

That's how poet Lucy Baldwin of Newport News described her inspiration for writing during an interview this month at her home.

Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919. Doris Kearns Goodwin was not born until 1943, but to hear her tell it, she spent the better part of seven years living with the legendary U.S. president.

Old Point National Bank on Warwick Blvd. near Tabbs Lane sustained some structural damage after it was struck by a car in an accident just after 3:20 p.m. Monday, dispatchers said.

A 27-year-old man pleaded guilty today to the use of a firearm that resulted in the death of a 46-year-old man in 2010.

Southbound Warwick Boulevard is closed at James River Drive, according to Newport News police spokesperson Holly McPherson.

The incident happened at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Brooke Street shortly before 8 p.m., Newport News police spokeswoman Holly McPherson said in an email.

The jury that deliberated - and deadlocked - on whether to impose a death sentence in the John Moses Ragin case swung sharply from one side to another during deliberations, some jurors on the case say.

A group of people in Newport News gathered to play cornhole Saturday, raising money for a little boy who is fighting cancer.

In the span of less than three months, two church deacons' lives were snuffed out by gunfire in Newport News - two men killed a block away from one another in broad daylight.

The Virginian-Pilot's 100th Taste Test, the region's largest media company is challenging professional bartenders from across the area to concoct an iconic cocktail that's uniquely Tidewater.

About 2:30 p.m., a man provided a note at the BB&T Bank at the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Pilot House Drive and implied he had a weapon before taking cash and running away, according to Newport News Police Department spokesman Lou Thurston.

A garage fire in the Denbigh area of Newport News Friday evening displaced one and caused $50,000 in damage to the home, primarily through smoke.