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Daily Press Editorial: Valentine's Day is an ideal time to express all the things we love about living in Hampton Roads.
02/14/2025

Daily Press Editorial: Valentine's Day is an ideal time to express all the things we love about living in Hampton Roads.

Valentine’s Day is an ideal time to express all the things we love about living in Hampton Roads.

The remodeled Rochambeau Roadside Inn is open, a sustainable goods retailer is closing and more business news in the His...
02/14/2025

The remodeled Rochambeau Roadside Inn is open, a sustainable goods retailer is closing and more business news in the Historic Triangle:

Remodeled motel opens, Joann fabric store to close and more business news in the Historic Triangle.

NEW: The crew of the helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet near D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Ai...
02/14/2025

NEW: The crew of the helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet near D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport might not have heard instructions from the air traffic controller to pass behind the plane, investigators said Friday.

The recording suggests the helicopter crew may have missed key instruction just before the collision.

Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling became the first woman in Virginia allowed by political leaders to vote remotely after she d...
02/14/2025

Del. Destiny LeVere Bolling became the first woman in Virginia allowed by political leaders to vote remotely after she delivered her child last week.

About a third of state lawmakers are women, garnering 49 out of 140 seats. And of those female legislators, about two dozen have kids under 18, ranging from newborns to teens.

This will be the 5th solar facility in James City County.
02/14/2025

This will be the 5th solar facility in James City County.

The new solar facility, the county’s fifth, will be constructed off Ivy Hill Road.

Junior's back at Daytona.
02/14/2025

Junior's back at Daytona.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. blinked back tears as the moment hit him at Daytona International Speedway.

A rally was held this week in Washington protesting large-scale cuts at the VA.
02/14/2025

A rally was held this week in Washington protesting large-scale cuts at the VA.

An executive order that President Trump signed this week will limit the VA and many other federal agencies to hiring just one new worker for every four who end employment with the government.

Hamstrung by President Trump’s hiring freeze, hundreds of rescinded job offers and the threat of coming layoffs, Yosemit...
02/14/2025

Hamstrung by President Trump’s hiring freeze, hundreds of rescinded job offers and the threat of coming layoffs, Yosemite National Park is in trouble, staffers say.

Hamstrung by President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze, hundreds of rescinded job offers and the threat of coming layoffs, the park is poised to enter its busiest months of the year severely sho…

More cold, cold Arctic air is coming.
02/14/2025

More cold, cold Arctic air is coming.

By SETH BORENSTEIN The coldest burst of Arctic air this season is coming to put an icy exclamation point on America’s winter of repeated polar vortex invasions, meteorologists warn. And it wi…

The Trump administration has intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce.
02/14/2025

The Trump administration has intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce.

The Office of Personnel Management told agencies on Thursday to lay off all probationary employees.

Their relationship "quickly exceeded appropriate boundaries."
02/14/2025

Their relationship "quickly exceeded appropriate boundaries."

The former assistant director of a federal halfway house in Newport News pleaded guilty Thursday to taking bribes from an inmate.

Did you receive an acceptance letter?
02/14/2025

Did you receive an acceptance letter?

More than 400 prospective students were mistakenly sent acceptance emails from William & Mary Law School because of a technical error in the admissions process.

It was the maximum penalty he could receive for a September 2020 murder and assault.
02/14/2025

It was the maximum penalty he could receive for a September 2020 murder and assault.

James Richard King was sentenced for the September 2020 sexual assault and murder of Lexie Walters at a Virginia Beach motel. In 1986, he was found guilty of a similar slaying in Ohio.

Keyshawn Davis, a Norfolk native, fights Denys Berinchyk on Friday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden for the...
02/13/2025

Keyshawn Davis, a Norfolk native, fights Denys Berinchyk on Friday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden for the WBO Lightweight world championship. The fight will be televised on ESPN.

Davis, a Norfolk native, fights Denys Berinchyk on Friday night at the Theater at Madison Square Garden for the WBO Lightweight world championship. The fight will be televised on ESPN.

By saying Ukraine’s NATO membership is “impractical” and the return of Russian-occupied territories to Kyiv is “illusion...
02/13/2025

By saying Ukraine’s NATO membership is “impractical” and the return of Russian-occupied territories to Kyiv is “illusionary,” the Trump administration is giving its blessing to key items on President Vladimir Putin’s wish list.

The fighting in Ukraine wasn’t the only issue the two leaders discussed in their call.

Corey Hairston retired as Warwick's head football coach in November. Now, he's back to coaching — at Grafton. He's the C...
02/13/2025

Corey Hairston retired as Warwick's head football coach in November. Now, he's back to coaching — at Grafton. He's the Clippers' ninth head coach since the end of the 2016 season.

Hairston retired in November as head coach at Warwick, a program he stepped into following a winless 2013 season and built into one perennially among the top five in Hampton Roads.

Breaking: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gende...
02/13/2025

Breaking: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.

The ruling came after a lawsuit was filed on behalf of families with transgender or nonbinary children.

Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development asked a federal judge to keep blocking an effort by the Trump...
02/13/2025

Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development asked a federal judge to keep blocking an effort by the Trump administration to pull all but a fraction of worldwide staffers off the job.

The temporary halt expires at the end of Thursday.

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