Hampton Roads Transit bus drivers are assaulted more often than any others in Virginia, and the transit company wants the area's prosecutors to start getting tougher on offenders. It's not just bus drivers, but passengers who are at risk, HRT President and CEO William Harrell says. He tried, but...
The Rosewell Foundation has spent more than 20 years working to stabilize, study and share the story of the historic Rosewell mansion - ensuring that what remains of the once impressive three-story colonial estate is preserved well into its fourth century. Those efforts have raised thousands of...
A group of Hampton residents have taken issue with the city's decision to name the bridge between Mercury and Fort Monroe after MLK. The supporters say it should honor Fort Monroe historical figures instead. The group have pick up over 300 names on their petition.
Hilton Village was the first planned community subsidized by the federal government. It was one of several local building projects designed to accommodate the huge influx of shipyard workers drawn to Newport News during World War I.
Here are photos from the Daily Press archives of Donk's Theater in Mathews County.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of suicide explosions that rocked the Brussels airport and the city's subway system on March 22, 2016.
Newport News police have a man in custody who they allege robbed a city bank Wednesday morning. Around 2:15 p.m., investigators located the man and began interviewing him about a robbery at BayPort Credit Union in Newport News. If/when he is charged, his name will be released, police said. The...
A man was to sent to the hospital after being shot by his girlfriend Tuesday night in downtown Norfolk, authorities said. A little after 10:30 p.m., police were dispatched to a residence in the 1000 block of East City Hall Avenue in reference to a man being shot. The 26-year-old man was rushed...
The production and possession of child pornography isn't strictly a Virginia problem, but it is a problem in Virginia, officials say. The problem was in the spotlight on Monday when a 44-year-old Williamsburg man was sentenced to 185 years in prison for having child pornography on his computer....
A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged after leading York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office deputies on a pursuit from a Walmart parking lot to a Newport News neighborhood. Davon Rashad Lewis, whose last known address is in the 200 block of Settlers Landing Road in Hampton, was wanted on a grand larceny...
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices vigorously questioned all sides Monday morning as they delved into the legislative intent behind Hampton Roads' congressional lines and wondered how much right elected officials have to pick their voters. The court heard 70 minutes of arguments in this long-running...
RICHMOND — A bipartisan group of Virginia senators wants the state Supreme Court to clarify a legislative privilege, allowing them to communicate with outside consultants in secret. If a circuit court judge won't kick that issue up to the state's highest court for review, the legislators want to...
Virginia's long-running legal battle over the state's 3rd Congressional District lines will be taken up Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the last hurrah for Republican members of Congress hoping to block a redrawn map likely to send an extra Virginia Democrat to Congress later this...
Blacks have a tougher time than whites when negotiating plea deals in Hampton Roads circuit courts, a database of circuit court clerks' records shows. For some of the most common cases that come before courts — drug, theft, bad check and robbery charges — whites are far more likely to strike a...
No one made public comment during the second hearing for the proposed Fiscal Year 2017 budget for Hampton City Schools. There was no public made at the first hearing a week prior, either. Superintendent Jeffery Smith's original budget proposal, which was based on Gov. Terry McAuliffe's proposed...
William & Mary announced its Reeves Center for International Studies received a national award for global education. The Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization from NAFSA: Association of International Educators recognizes colleges and universities for making strides toward...
Isle of Wight Academy said it has disciplined three seniors who made a video for a school project using "blackface" to depict a black character. The private school, located across the street from Isle of Wight County's administrative offices, issued a statement Tuesday after talk of the video made...
Two William and Mary students studying abroad in Brussels are safe after a terrorist attack struck the city Tuesday morning. Both Christopher Newport University and Hampton University confirmed they did not have any students studying abroad in the city this semester. Suzanne Seurattan, director...
After scoring a legal victory over landowners and the support of Hampton Roads legislators, Dominion Energy announced Tuesday it's making "significant progress" as it moves forward on the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a conference call with reporters, company president Diane Leopold...
A study released Monday on the monarch butterfly breaks some sobering news: possible extinction within two decades. The U.S. Geological Survey announced there's a "substantial chance" the popular monarch is doomed if long-term population declines continue. The population fell 84 percent between...
Tens of millions of monarch butterflies are stretching their wings, preparing for the long annual northern migration from their overwintering grounds in Mexico to breeding grounds ranging from the Midwest to the East Coast. Many will trickle into Hampton Roads by early June. But biologists and...
Hampton Roads and other threatened coastal communities have long been bracing for sea-level rise, struggling to figure out how to adapt. But a new study published Monday suggests that up to 70 percent of the coast from Virginia to the Canadian border is actually more likely to shift and change...