Tag Archives: Newport News

• News / Offbeat

  Virginia man places ad for a mom this Mother’s Day

  A Newport News man hopes for something special this Mother’s Day weekend, a mother.
• News

  Police capture fugitive who escaped on I-64

  Virginia State Police and Newport News Police found the man who escaped from their custody on Interstate 64 on Friday.
• News

  Cuffed fugitive escapes U.S. Marshals in Newport News

  Several police agencies and the U.S. Marshals are searching for a wanted man who escaped from their custody on I-64 in Newport News today.
• News

  Newport News pastor beaten to death in Florida

  Newport News pastor John Henry Bowser, 76, is dead after Jacksonville authorities say 24-year-old Terrence Rashad Wright bludgeoned him to death.
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  Woman charged with stabbing brother to death

  A Richmond man is dead following a visit to see his sister in Newport News.
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  Fires cancel classes at Christopher Newport University

  The university’s website states that classes will resume at 8 a.m. on Wednesday after a string of suspicious fires in buildings on the campus.
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  Newport News mom accused of leaving kids locked in rooms

  Neighbors called in the cops after spotting a 4-year-old boy trying to break free by jumping out of a window.
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  Va. boys, 13, accused of spiking teacher’s drink

  Two 13-year-old boys are facing felonies after police said they spiked their teacher’s drinks with hand sanitizer.
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  Woman charged with sexual assaulting 9-year-old

  An 18-year-old woman is facing charges for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old boy in Newport News.
• Politics

  Obama in Virginia: Cuts are a ‘self-inflicted wound’

  Pres. Obama held a campaign-style event at the site of a major defense shipbuilding contractor in Newport News, Virginia.
• Politics

  President Obama to talk Virginia job cuts

  It will be his latest push to pressure Congress before a series of massive, across-the-board forced spending cuts kick in on Friday.
• News

  Obama to visit Newport News Shipbuilding next week

  President Obama will take his case to avert the looming budget sequester to Newport News Shipbuilding on Tuesday.