Heather Eckstine is a Digital Content Producer for WTKR News 3, focusing on local news in Norfolk, Virginia. With previous work featured in WTVR-TV, Heather covers a wide range of topics including crime, community events, weather updates, and human interest stories.
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By: Heather Eckstine
The Port of Virginia has offered assistance to carriers whose vessels were due at Baltimore, following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after a cargo ship collided with a pillar.
Officers rushed on foot to the 200 block of Dale Dr. in the Dale Homes neighborhood and found an adult male, now identified as 28-year-old Daniel Christian Rodgers, suffering from gunshot wounds.
By: Heather Eckstine
Elijah James-Saunders is in a Hampton court room Monday after being accused of shooting and killing a 17-year-old Rally's employee after an altercation in November.
Coastal Virginia Conservancy says the first sediment restoration phase has been completed in time for Earth Day.
By: Heather Eckstine
An endangered female North Atlantic right whale was found dead about 50 miles offshore from Back Bay Wildlife Refuge, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) lost their K-9 officer Rivan after he was killed protecting his handler while she was responding to an attack between inmates.
By: Heather Eckstine
Areas of the former Lambert's Point Golf Course will become open space available for the public to use beginning Apr. 8.
By: Heather Eckstine
According to court documents, the charges against Parker were filed on Mar. 11, and she is currently listed as a fugitive.
By: Heather Eckstine
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A special grand jury report released on Wednesday detailed the day Abby Zwerner was shot by her 6-year-old student at Richneck Elementary School, and why former Assistant Principal Dr.
By: Heather Eckstine, Madeline Miller
Ebony Parker was Richneck Elementary's assistant principal on Jan. 6, 2023: the day former teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by one of her students
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