Chesapeake News

An outspoken and provocative conservative who emerged from Saturday's Republican Party of Virginia Convention as the party's nominee for lieutenant governor once compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and blasted African-Americans for their "slavish devotion" to the Democratic Party.

Chesapeake minister and attorney E.W. Jackson won the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor late in the night Saturday after a long afternoon of voting to narrow the field from seven candidates.

If Virginia Republicans get their wish, Ken Cuccinelli, E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain will be the commonwealth's governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively, come January 2014.

"), a subsidiary of Gastar Exploration Ltd. announced today that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to finance the purchase price for its separately announced pending acquisition of Mid-Continent assets from Chesapeake Energy Corporation , repurchase 6,781,768 shares of the ... (more)

Crestwood Middle School social studies teacher Wendy Burr, right, receives her top award for Holocaust education from Jan Johnson of the area Holocaust Commission.

Chesapeake earlier this week sold 162,000 Marcellus shale acres to Southwestern Energy Co.

When Barbara Harrell's body was discovered in her car in a Chesapeake shopping center, it became a grim reminder of how tough it is to protect homeless people who suffer from mental illness.

Despite public support for unlimited hours, supervisors again placed limits on the hours of operation under a permit granted to Chesapeake Hospital Corporation for the former Family Maternity Center parcel.

Kevon Detroin Perry, 18, of the 900 of Providence Road in Chesapeake was charged with simple assault.