Hampton Roads Transit officials should have results of an efficiency study next month and based on expected findings will likely have to make "tough choices" regarding Peninsula bus services.  Read more...

HAMPTON — A crowd of about 300 gathered Monday in front of the Emancipation Oak on Hampton University's campus, where the Emancipation Proclamation was read to newly freed slaves in January 1863.  Read more...

ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy as a preacher of peace and tolerance was lauded Monday as Americans marked his memorial day just over a week after the shootings in Arizona that killed 6 people and seriously wounded a congresswoman.  Read more...

Informed Opinion Leadership Action Group (IOLAG), a cross section of leaders from high-performance hospitals, clinics and accountable care organizations announced Friday the publication of its landmark employer survey suggesting how U.S. hospitals and physicians can best prepare for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (health-care...  Read more...

A 16-year-old girl from southwestern Virginia, listed by state police as missing and endangered since she disappeared from her high school on Jan. 3, was found over the weekend in Los Angeles with her 18-year-old boyfriend, who was arrested.  Read more...

Scientists across the United States are e-mailing Gwyn P. Williams.  Read more...

The Bon Secours for Women free lecture series is kicking off in January. The first series is Bones, Moans & Groans, a program in partnership with the Bon Secours Orthopaedic Institute.  Read more...

If you think vampires are figments of television and novels, think again.  Read more...