Portsmouth News

There is a magnificent, wide channel of water that connects the James River with the Chesapeake Bay called the Hampton Roads .

Police investigators in Portsmouth have identified a woman who was killed on Tuesday, but they are still trying to determine the identity of a man who was killed the same day.

People board a bus in Portsmouth that would take them to lobby in Richmond against the proposed toll fees on Wednesday, Feb.

Portsmouth residents and business leaders boarded a bus to Richmond to give state leaders a piece of their mind.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. The Coast Guard says they received a call at 2 p.m. on Wednesday about a boater who was in distress near the Steel Bridge in Chesapeake .

Amherst County's population was stable for 2011 as Virginia's population growth outpaced the nation's, according to the most recent official population estimates developed by demographers from the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.

At the Downtown Tunnel, eastbound traffic on Interstate 264 is backed up 3 miles to Frederick Boulevard in Portsmouth.

Police are looking for a woman who was last seen Monday as she left to go to the hospital.

HAMPTON, Va. - A Hampton man and "lottery rookie" won $100,000 in the Virginia Lottery's Cash 5 game.

Police blocked off the scene of a body found inside a burning car in the 400 block of Florida Ave.

Firefighters were called to the 400 block of Florida Avenue in the Port Norfolk neighborhood around 5:25 a.m. Please take a moment to review the available e-mail newsletters has to offer.

On a hot summer day in 1861, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury and his son Richard, now a junior officer in the Confederate Army, rowed from Rockett's Wharf in Richmond, Va., toward the middle of the James River and set afloat two kegs filled with rifle powder.

Police say a boat capsized near the Gilmerton Bridge in Chesapeake. The Coast Guard was notified around 7:15 p.m. Monday night.

On Interstate 664 northbound in Hampton near the intersection with I-64, an accident is affecting traffic and blocking one lane headed toward I-64 west.

A truck passes by a machine that scans the container for radiation as it leaves the Norfolk International Terminals in November 2011.

Tyler Gaca poses with his painting after winning the 2012 Hampton Roads Student Gallery high school art contest at the d'ART Center at the Selden Arcade in Norfolk on Saturday, February 4, 2012.

Deanna Beamon, 7, a second-grader at Victory Elementary School attends a social studies class with her teacher Victoria Mapp-Jonathan. The class was using an e-book to learn about famous Americans, projected on an interactive whiteboard Thursday, Jan.

Jason Knorowski was charged with driving under the influence in October after a minor accident in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven. He was convicted of misdemeanor DUI in November but appealed that decision and later agreed to plead guilty to a reckless driving charge instead.

Police in Portsmouth are looking for a woman who has been indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges related to the death of another woman last month.

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