Conker shortage caused by moth invasion

As mchawk reported at the end of August, the beloved British Chestnut trees are under attack from a fungus. Well now it seems they have a new enemy. An invasion of foreign moths has hit the conker once again.The...

Newport News,VA man indicted on sex trafficking charges

" JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A Newport News man faces sex trafficking charges. Federal authorities say Marvin Leigh Madkins, 28, recruited and transported two juveniles from Virginia to Florida between April and June to engage in prostitution and commercial sex acts. He’s...

VA-India trade conference to be held in Norfolk

" Business leaders from Virginia and India will gather in Norfolk next month for a trade conference. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine says the event will be the strongest international program to be held in Virginia in a number of years. The conference is scheduled for Oct. 15-16...

Britain's RSPB protects nature reserve

One of Britain's most popular bird-watching reserves, Titchwell Marsh, is going to have to be abandoned to the rising sea levels.The Marsh is on the north Norfolk Coast, and the Royal Society for the Protection of...

Norfolk Cops Seek RunawayTeen Britni Wells May Be Getting Help

" Missing Girl May Be Getting Help Police in Virginia say that in December 2006, 16-year-old Britni Elyssa Wells announced on her MySpace site she was planning to run away. On Jan. 2, 2007, Britni made good...

PETA's Statement about Ben & Jerry's to use breast milk?

In a statement today Tracy Reiman told WVEC13 news that babies should drink breast milk. Ice cream and formula should be made from soy. That she had children and she breast fed her children. PETA's...

Obama Attacks McCain in "You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, but it's Still a Pig"...

Senator Barack Obama claims today that the McCanin camp have got it all wrong if they thought he was referring to Republican running partner and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin when he quipped, "You can put lipstick on a...

Beach man charged with plotting to kill police detective

" Virginia Beach police have charged a man with plotting kill a Beach police detective. Police say Edmund Kutauskas made arrangements with someone in New York to travel to Virginia Beach and kill the detective. The...

3 charged in Va. Beach murder-for-hire plot to kill Beach detectives. Whats ...

" Police say a jailhouse informant tipped them off to the plot in February. Three people have been indicted for conspiring to kill two Virginia Beach detectives. Investigators were told that inmateRonald Regis...

Va. court grants first writ of actual innocence in Chesapeake case

" - A man convicted in Chesapeake of felony firearm possession has become the first person exonerated under a 2004 Virginia law allowing prisoners to present new, non-DNA evidence of their innocence. The Virginia Court of Appeals granted Darrell Andrew Copeland's writ of...

Delays after airport jet landing

Newcastle Airport in the UK is facing delays after a Royal Air Force plane had to make an emergency landing there. We're looking for photos and video anyone might have taken of the emergency landing, or any first person accounts."Passengers are facing delays after an RAF jet...

Tombstoning season opens with the year's first fatality

'Tombstoning' describes diving from cliffs or sea walls into shallow water and has already claimed a number of lives in recent years. The latest in thrill-seeking pastimes or the dumbest variant on base-jumping, this...

Honored Navy chaplain faces multiple sexual-offense counts

" Lt. Shane R. Dillman The Virginian-Pilot© July 26, 2008 By Kate Wiltrout and Kathy Adams NORFOLK A chaplain who won awards for ministering to wounded troops and who escorted President Bush around the Navy's flagship hospital could be...

Missing Children United Kingdom

"         Case Handled By:    NPIA Missing Persons Bureau DANIEL ENTWISTLE Case Type: Missing From Home DOB: 28-Jul-1995 Missing Date: 03-May-2003...

Sex offender exposed himself at Oceanfront, Va. Beach Police say

" VA BEACH – A convicted sex offender allegedly exposed himself to a group of people at the beach, including a 10-year-old girl. It happened at 74th Street on the afternoon of June 14. According to police,...

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