Newport News

The Interstate 64 widening project cleared another hurdle on Tuesday, when the Federal Highway Administration signed the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed 75-mile project aimed at easing traffic congestion between Newport News and Richmond.

The Navy could look to the commercial shipbuilding industry for ways to reduce problems in the construction and delivery of U.S. warships, a government watchdog report says.

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Police are looking for two men they say held a an employee of a J. Clyde Morris Boulevard convenience store at knifepoint and robbed the business.

The amenities caught up with the city's Amtrak service on Monday with the opening of its $3.75 million train station.

Helping Rodef Sholom's Temple celebrates its Centennial this year are longtime members Abe and Ernzstine Firestone.

Early one recent morning, four crepe myrtles with 350-pound root balls wrapped in burlap lay along Orcutt Avenue between 25th and 26th streets next to deep, freshly dug holes.

Shaggy, the popular Z104 radio personality, will be living on a bus for several days while helping with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves annual "Stuff the Bus" campaign to collect toys for kids at Peninsula Town Center in Hampton.

Join Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, U.S. Reps. Bobby Scott and Rob Wittman, Delegate Chris Jones, Newport News Mayor McKinley Price, and Armada Hoffler and Huntington Ingalls Industries leadership, as well as other business and community leaders, to celebrate the opening of the new Apprentice School.

Look for The Anchor Inn Seafood Restaurant to open up in a couple of weeks in the space formerly occupied by Create adjacent to Hilton Village in Newport News .

According to Newport News police spokesman Harold Ely, a 13-year-old girl told police she was babysitting her little brothers when their father kicked open the front door of the home and confronted their mom's boyfriend.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for Friday. Classes are scheduled to begin at the new facility in mid-January.

Posted on: 5:24 pm, December 1, 2013, by Erica Greenway and Jackie Faye , updated on: 09:04pm, December 1, 2013 "I went on 64 and all of a sudden, I see this backup so when I was passing by I saw all these accidents.

The driver of an armored currency truck was charged Sunday morning after his vehicle overturned on I-64 in Newport News .

Although poinsettias of all stripes and colors remain the best-selling standard, amaryllis is catching up.

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.

Apprentice School Director of Education Everett H. Jordan, Jr. talks about the school's new facility in downtown Newport News.

Rainbow Puppets Presents "The Night Before Christmas," 2 and 3 p.m. at Children's Museum of Virginia, 221 High St., Portsmouth.

A 21-year-old Newport News man responded Nov. 21 to a Craigslist posting that was advertising iPhones.

Linda Eilers, "Bunny" to her family, has a special place in her heart for the High Country Caregiver Foundation, a group of "extraordinary volunteers," who came to her side as she cared for her mother in her last days of life.