Hampton News

Ron Murphy, second from right, and Dick Lutman, both of Virginia Beach, chat next to Murphy's boat at Downtown Hampton Public Piers as they visit Hampton on Friday.

Hampton police said they are looking for a man who robbed the AutoZone auto parts store Wednesday around 2:30 p.m. Police said the man walked into the store on the 2200 block of Kecoughtan Road, displayed a handgun and demanded money.

The unemployment rate in Hampton Roads fell to 6.1 percent in April, down from 6.4 percent in March, the Virginia Employment Commission reported Wednesday.

Police charged 18-year-old Paris Stanback, of the first block of Colonial Place in Newport News, with shooting into an occupied dwelling in connection to the incident, Price said.

Staff Photo by Steven Marsh: Guest speaker Dennis Fritts, historian and vice president-elect for the board, Virginia Society War of 1812, discusses the war, during Saturday's 11th annual Veterans' Memorial Day program.

Cpl. Jason Price with the Hampton Police Department told WAVY.com officers received a call for shots fired in the first block of Christine Court around 2:45 p.m. When they arrived, they discovered a home had been struck by at least one bullet.

Is it a mad scramble for the exits or just a coincidental turn of events? In the last several months, six assistant or deputy prosecutors - many of them with lots of experience - have left or are leaving the Hampton prosecutor's office.

The College of William and Mary's historic Wren Building was built in part from funds donated by pirates shortly before the school was chartered in 1693.

Tina Houchins and Dan Gautier at the grave of their son Aaron Gautier who was killed in Iraq five years ago.

In a special weeklong series, the Daily Press tells the stories of the notorious looters, brigands and bloodthirsty privateers who terrorized Hampton Roads centuries ago.

TAA Portfolio Show -- "Taos Pueblo - One Horno and Ladder," by Hampton artist James Warwick Jones, is one of a series of paintings on view at the Suffolk Art Gallery in the "Tidewater Art Alliance Portfolio Exhibition." Jones won the Best in Show award for his series.

The U.S. Air Force Hospital Langley in Hampton, Va., will be closed today for construction.

Paul Blais, left, a retired Senior Airman of the US Air Force and a Purple Heart recipient, salutes as the Fort Monroe Authority holds a flag raising ceremony at Fort Monroe in Hampton on Thursday.

The Cobre High School Class of 1962 will hold their 50th class reunion on Aug. 3 to 5 at the Brown Derby in Santa Clara.

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Hampton firefighters are on the scene of a restaurant fire.A Dispatchers confirm the fire is at Harpoon Larry's Oyster Bar on North Armistead Avenue.A Dispatchers say no one was hurt, but no other details are available.

A representative for The Cordish Companies last week announced the lineup of bands playing the Friday Night Summer Concert Series Alive After Five! at Hampton's Power Plant.

Tackling corruption in football will again top FIFA's agenda when the 208 member nations meet this week for a Congress that will also see the first woman appointed to the governing body's executive committee.

Despite the light rain, friends and co-workers of Carla Williams gathered for a celebration outdoors Sunday on what would have been her 39th birthday.

One of the best point guards in the 2013 recruiting class, reportedly favoring Alabama and the Kansas Jayhawks .