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Jamaro Lamont Fields, convicted in 2013 of molesting a 6-year-old, was caught with fentanyl, cocaine and a handgun in Portsmouth.
Larry Earl Batts evaded capture for over a decade before dying in Rocky Mount, N.C. He was wanted for assaulting a 6-year-old girl.
William Collins was suspended after Engine 52 rolled onto its roof near Jericho Road responding to a Lakeview Cove fire report.
Divers recovered George Elliott Manley from a Suffolk retention pond Sunday evening. Police say his death isn't suspicious.
Two injured people were taken to a hospital after the attempted holdup at Happy Smoke on Jefferson Avenue.
Treyquan Johnson died at the scene; the Mustang driver was treated but not hospitalized. The crash remains under investigation.
A shooting during a robbery on Runaway Bay Drive sent one person to the hospital Monday. Police say the investigation is ongoing.
A federal jury found Larry Darnell Dove Jr. guilty on gun and drug charges after a January 2025 task force stop in Newport News.
Two others were hospitalized in life-threatening condition after carbon monoxide filled a Farmington home overnight.
Newly unsealed body-camera footage from Richneck Elementary shows the aftermath of the 2023 shooting that wounded teacher Abby Zwerner.
Chesapeake police want help identifying two suspects after a gunpoint robbery on George Washington Highway last month.
Two men and two women were hospitalized after a Monday evening shooting on London Boulevard in Portsmouth. Police say the public is not at risk.
Erwin Marroquin-Herrera's blood-alcohol level hit 0.255 — three times Virginia's legal limit — the night Steven White II died.
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