NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Newport News Shipbuilding, the largest industrial employer in Virginia, is laying off 314 salaried staff employees and moving about 120 managers to lower-level positions,...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) _ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit of $249 million.

The Newport News, Virginia-based company said it had profit of...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The mastermind behind a large drug-trafficking ring operating in Virginia, North Carolina, Texas and California has entered a guilty plea, federal prosecutors in Virginia...

HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — A date has been set for a special election in Hampton to choose a new sheriff.

The special election scheduled for Nov. 2 will fill the term of Sheriff B.J. Roberts, who...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who was convicted in the murder-for-hire of a Naval officer in Newport News has gotten a new court hearing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia tax return preparer was sentenced to 27 months in prison for filing false returns, federal prosecutors said.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors have determined that police were justified in killing a man who ambushed and shot a police officer and civilian taking part in a ride-along program last year...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has thrown out a murder charge against a man accused of fatally stabbing a man in the back to stop him from suffocating a pregnant woman.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia cast its 13 Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday.

The 13 electors gathered at the state House of Delegates for a ceremony that was...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to buy alcohol for resale from state-run liquor stores by using stolen debit and credit card numbers,...

JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — A new draft review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has found that a power company had no better alternative to stringing high-voltage lines across a historic stretch of...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Two officers have been indicted in connection with the death of a Virginia man who was killed by police during a struggle as officers were confronting him about allegedly...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) _ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $222 million.

On a per-share basis, the Newport News, Virginia-based company...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, (AP) — A Virginia mother was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the starvation death of her 4-year-old daughter last year, authorities said.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A man who police say was seen fleeing the area of a fatal shooting in Virginia was arrested after he crashed his vehicle during a pursuit.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge in Virginia has appointed a county prosecutor to investigate whether Richmond's mayor broke any laws when his administration hired a company to remove the city’s...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Most classes at Virginia’s community colleges will remain online early next year, the system’s head announced months before the spring semester to “minimize the...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man says he was fired from his job at a shipyard for refusing to remove a hat supporting President Donald Trump.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The mayor of Virginia's capital city agreed to pay $1.8 million to a firm linked to a political donor to take down Richmond’s Confederate statues last month, according to...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia city council voted to remove a Confederate monument that has stood in the city for more than a century.

The Newport News City Council agreed to take down...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) _ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) on Thursday reported second-quarter net income of $53 million.

The Newport News, Virginia-based company said it had profit...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A man accused in the shooting death of a Delaware man has been arrested in Virginia.

Tysheen Maxwell, 25, was captured by the U.S. Marshals Service in Newport News,...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A new report says that blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are not being over harvested.

The Daily Press in Newport News reported Thursday that the bay's blue crab...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) _ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) on Thursday reported first-quarter profit of $172 million.

On a per-share basis, the Newport News, Virginia-based company...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Virginian-Pilot has officially moved out of the downtown Norfolk building that it had occupied for more than 80 years.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia will receive three decontamination systems that can collectively sterilize up to 240,000 units of personal protective equipment each day during the coronavirus...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man is accused of shooting and killing his wheelchair-bound wife, and a judge has ordered him held without bond, authorities said.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Ralph Northam on Sunday banned all public gatherings of more than 100 people statewide and ordered a two-week shutdown of municipal offices in an area of southeast...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia shipbuilding company could be fined nearly $162,000 over the death of a supervisor who fell while working aboard a vessel, according to online records from the...

HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — The Hampton City Council is considering a resolution that would change a street named for a Confederate general to one named for Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A man accused in the dragging death of a police officer in Virginia claims that he's “deeply regretful” for what happened. But he also said his family has endured...

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) _ Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $149 million.

On a per-share basis, the Newport News, Virginia-based company...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia jail that came under state scrutiny after the 2015 death of a mentally ill man is now being accused of failing to cooperate with an investigation into three other...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — State police say a Virginia man is dead after driving into the rear of a tractor-trailer.

Virginia State Police say the crash happened about 3 a.m. Saturday on...

A 24-year-old police officer in Virginia died after being dragged by a vehicle during a traffic stop, and the driver is facing charges that include felony homicide, Newport News Police Chief Steve...

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has expressed his condolences to the families of two American soldiers who died in Afghanistan, including one from Newport News.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two U.S. service members were killed and two others injured Saturday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the Pentagon said in a...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Authorities have released the identity of a man shot to death during a struggle by a Virginia police officer who was confronting him for allegedly abusing the 911...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A man was shot and killed by police during a struggle in his Virginia apartment when the man grabbed a stun gun and used it on officers, authorities said.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials say an imported fire ant quarantine has been expanded to include a total of seven counties and 11 cities.