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Two companies announced expansions in Hampton Roads this week that will add 31 jobs.

Shortly after 11 p.m. on March 13, a Lynchburg police officer stopped a Toyota sport utility vehicle seen making a U-turn on Candlers Mountain Road, Capt.

Two men will each spend 30 days in jail for wearing clown masks in a Virginia Beach theater and scaring patrons.

Underwater Explosion Test Facility A quarter-scale model of the developmental U.S. Navy Destroyer -- dubbed DD , now known as the DDG-1000 -- undergoes an underwater explosive-shock qualification event at Aberdeen Test Center's Underwater Explosion Test Facility.

Two Virginia Beach schools that performed exceptionally on standardized tests are among a handful statewide that have been granted three-year waivers from the state's annual accreditation requirements, the Virginia Department of Education announced Tuesday.

During a recent drive to McDonald's, Natalee Pentz and her mother were pulled over during a routine traffic stop by Police Officer Jeff Leathers.

Volunteers Sharon Godfrey, left, and Steve Jahnke, middle, sift through soil at an archaeological excavation at Marshview Park in Virginia Beach on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

Virginia Beach Superintendent James Merrill gives the annual state of the schools address on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013.

Local Democrats have nominated a Navy veteran to challenge Del. John Cosgrove in an upcoming special election for a Virginia Senate seat in South Hampton Roads, after a Chesapeake City Councilwoman and a Suffolk attorney each considered running.

A fatal house fire that claimed two lives on June 3 has drawn attention to one Virginia Beach neighborhood's fight to get better access for emergency vehicles.

"People ask me what happened at 96X," said James Steele, who ended a 6-year run at WROX-FM on April 22. "I tell them, 'Radio happened.'

He's a man who loves spending time with his large, extended family. A gathering of 40 at a time is not unusual for la famiglia Rizzo, including brothers, sisters, mother, father, in-laws and untold numbers of nieces and nephews.

The Wake County Board of Education on Tuesday is expected to approve the contract for the system's new school superintendent.

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Writing is a tough business. After an author writes that perfect book and manages to sell it to a publisher , the hard work begins: He or she must become a name amidst the thousands who have done the same.

Superintendent Samuel King is rapidly moving forward with an ambitious plan to transform the school division by converting 10 existing schools into public charters and creating an open campus high school.

Pulaski's former building inspector, who was terminated in April, has filed a Writ of Mandamus in Pulaski County Circuit Court seeking to force the town to reinstate him with full benefits.

Nine owners and managers of 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and in Virginia were charged today in a scheme to exploit immigrants from Pakistan, including some business-owners who used Social Security numbers of children and dead people on the workers' paystubs.

The crew of the dredge Meritt, based out of Wilmington, N.C., will dredge about 20,000 cubic yards of material, which will be placed directly north of the entrance channel and inlet jetties.

David Darden, CEO of Raleigh General Hospital for the second time, back now since May, found out early in his career in health care administration that he'd be planting stakes in places like Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and New Mexico.