Even with gasoline prices falling, Richard Hayslett joked he would be better off with a skipjack.  Read more...

NEWPORT NEWS -- Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents seized 670 gallons of wine from an 82-year-old Newport News man's home.  Read more...

PORTSMOUTH — The commanding officer of Norfolk Naval Shipyard has been removed from his position pending a formal investigation by the Naval Inspector General into "command environment" issues, the Navy said Monday.  Read more...

A high-ranking official at Hampton Roads Regional Jail said his facility never received a fax that a Hampton court official said was sent to the jail to tell them to release a woman who ended up spending 87 days locked up with no charges pending.  Read more...

NEWPORT NEWS — The state medical examiner's office has concluded autopsies on the two NASA research assistants who died in a boating accident on the James River earlier this week, and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission is wrapping up its investigation into the incident.  Read more...

NEWPORT NEWS — A grand jury in Newport News Circuit Court on Monday indicted two men in an October boating accident on the James River that left a 13-year-old Gloucester boy dead.  Read more...

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Britain said flights could be disrupted over parts of the country on Tuesday by an ash cloud billowing from an Icelandic volcano, but it did not expect a repeat of last year's travel chaos.  Read more...

JOPLIN, Missouri (Reuters) - At least 89 people have died in a monster tornado that left a path of destruction nearly a mile wide through the heart of Joplin, Missouri, and directly hit the small Midwestern city's main hospital, local officials said on Monday.  Read more...