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Fire destroyed one mobile home and damaged another at Denbigh Mobile Home Park. Crews were called to the park on Stardust Circle just before 11:00 a.m. The residents weren't home at the time.

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A jailhouse informant testified Monday that a Newport News teenager told him he was trying to rob another man of drugs when he saw the man "going for his gun." So the teen said he fired first, the informant testified.

A Newport News school bus driver was briefly pulled from her route because of a crash that police say was her fault.

Caitlin Elizabeth Trask , 21, shot to death in Navy housing unit on 32nd Street.

More than three dozen people lose lives in 2009 homicides. 247-4749 928-6479 10:38 PM EST, January 1, 2010 One afternoon in February, Navy sailor Caitlin E. Trask, 21, was shot in the back of the head at a friend's Navy apartment in downtown Newport News.

Two years ago, 18-year-old Ryan Lewis Dunn went to a friend's New Year's Eve party in York County.

Two Virginia fishermen feared lost at sea off the New Jersey coast are being remembered by fellow commercial fishermen in Newport News.

Police have arrested a Newport News man in connection with a stabbing earlier this month during a 200-plus person brawl that spilled out of a birthday party at a Richmond Road motel.

Virginia State Police say more people died this year in accidents during the Christmas holiday than in 2008.

Two Virginia military bases will merge next month, but officials say little will change in the short term.

The lone survivor of a fishing boat accident off the coast of southern New Jersey has been released from the hospital.

Police shut down Jefferson Avenue north of Fort Eustis after a fatal two-vehicle crash this morning.

Coast Guard crews continue to search for two Newport News men missing after a 38-foot fishing boat sank off the coast of southern New Jersey .

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A multi-vehicle accident has caused traffic delays on Mercury Boulevard in Newport News near the James River Bridge.

Firefighters are trying to determine the cause of a restaurant blaze this morning at the Ivy Farms Shopping Center.

For the second time in less than a week, a business was badly damaged by an early-morning fire at the Ivy Farms Plaza Shoppes strip mall in Newport News.

Ali Rogan was still a little girl growing up in late 1950s Detroit when she had her first encounter with the seductive power of glass.

An off duty Hampton police officer was stabbed by a 19-year-old man in Newport News on Saturday morning, prompting him to shoot his assailant, police say.