Peter Dujardin

U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Miller is now stationed in Newport News, a move that could bring big changes to the downtown courthouse.

Elvis Jamir Cruz-Ferrera pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the Feb. 19 wreck that killed 19-year-old ODU sophomore Lauryn Ni'Kole Leonard.

A high school student was shot at a Newport News school bus stop Wednesday — the third case since September of a student getting shot near a bus stop in the city before the start of the day.

There’s no immediate word on whether detectives believe this shooting could be related to two slayings near school bus stops in September.

Neighbors called 911 at 3:58 a.m., reporting a fire at a home in the 2000 block of Midway Avenue in the city's Portlock section, Chesapeake Fire Lt. Robert Warren wrote in a news release.

Police were called about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday to a hotel on Military Highway, Studios & Suites 4 Less, for a report about a child being bitten by one of the dogs.

Cmdr. Sarah M. Quemada, who headed the Norfolk division of the Naval Information Warfare Training Group, was removed from the job "due to a loss of confidence in her ability to command," the Navy said.

Cmdr. Sarah M. Quemada, who headed the Norfolk division of the Naval Information Warfare Training Group, was removed from the job “due to a loss of confidence in her ability to command,”…

The legislation comes about a year after a Chinese national was arrested for flying a drone over Newport News Shipbuilding, a maker of Navy aircraft carriers and submarines and the state's largest industrial employer.

Terence Jerome Richardson, 53, and Ferrone Claiborne, 48, were among the 2,490 inmates nationwide whose federal sentences were commuted Thursday by Biden on his very last days in office.