Provides the latest RSS feeds for Virginia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page The Virginia Beach News.net http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/cat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2/ en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 07:20:25 -0400 Sat, 25 May 2013 07:20:25 -0400 30 SUFFOLK, Va. – A Suffolk mother will spend weekends behind bars after mooning her son's school bus following a confrontation with the driver. Media outlets report that 34-year-old Lisa Grant was convicted this week of disorderly conduct. She was accused of mooning the school bus with roughly 45 students aboard last November. Grant admits she exchanged heated words with the bus driver ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214755463/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:57:31 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214755463/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Joseph and Keana, an interracial couple from Virginia, are already used to getting stares from other people. However, they were shocked and outraged when a police officer suddenly appeared at their doorstep to investigate if the three biracial children were theirs as a response to Walmart security’s concern that they may have been kidnapped. The couple has been married for 10 years now and ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214754188/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Sat, 25 May 2013 01:31:37 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214754188/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) - A Chesapeake teacher is raising money for Oklahoma tornado victims. So far, Ashley Benoit has raised more than $16 thousand for this cause just by selling products teachers use in the classroom. "I have a friend that I just saw the pictures he was posting on Facebook; he was live on the ground there, and I was immediately just like 'what can I do?'", ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214753477/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:31:44 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214753477/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 H.J. Heinz Co. expects to close a $28 billion buyout deal in early- to mid-June, the company said Friday after Chinese regulators cleared it of antitrust concerns. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and a Brazilian investment firm, 3G Capital, will pay Heinz shareholders $72.50 a share to take the Pittsburgh condiment maker private. Heinz officials had said they expected the deal to close ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214753220/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:14:41 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214753220/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 © 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214753679/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:05:42 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214753679/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Mark Segraves, reporter for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., talks with Rachel Maddow about the chances for success of the slate of extreme social conservatives being run for state office by Republicans in ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214752374/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:17:20 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214752374/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 WASHINGTON (AP) — Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In a statement to the Post newsroom, Managing Editor Kevin Merida said Johnson died of a ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214751807/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:13:12 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214751807/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Chad Pinder drove in the winning run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to help Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 3-2 on Friday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, clinching an appearance in Sunday's ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214750391/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:49:14 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214750391/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of a failed U.S. bank in Norfolk, Virginia, and three others were convicted Friday on bank fraud conspiracy and other charges for concealing loan losses in a scheme that contributed to he bank's 2011 ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214749689/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:47:42 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214749689/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 http://bit.ly/12546LM ) reports a Hanover County grand jury indicted 30-year-old Kimberly K. Shepperson this week on two counts of attempted capital murder, in addition to two previous charges of arson and malicious ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214749439/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:42:21 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214749439/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 have been charged for using herbs to induce abortion. Jessica Carpenter, 20, and her roommate, Rachael Lowe, 27, were charged in Norfolk with a Class 4 felony. The younger woman was six months pregnant. The women said that they obtained an herbal product which Carpenter ingested to induce a miscarriage. A friend, Lea Smith, overheard their plans and, when Carpenter went into labor and was taken ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214748315/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:41:01 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214748315/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Republican Party of Virginia Treasurer Bob FitzSimmonds, a former aide to and ';very close friend'; of gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli II ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214747660/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:40:04 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214747660/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 NORFOLK, VA-Following a multi-week trial, three top executives and a favored borrower have been convicted by a federal jury in Norfolk, Virginia. Accused of masking non-performing assets at the Bank of the Commonwealth for their own personal benefit and to the detriment of the bank, those in this long-running scheme contributed to the failure of the bank in 2011, costing the Federal Deposit ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214746430/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:36:37 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214746430/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the furloughs will end on June 3, after just three days off, because the agency has found other ways to offset automatic budget cuts imposed by ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214745143/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:33:12 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214745143/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 ST. LOUIS (AP) - A southwestern Illinois judge already under scrutiny after a colleague died of a cocaine overdose at his family's hunting lodge was charged Friday with possession of heroin and guns. Wearing cutoff shorts and a T-shirt with the slogan "Bad is my middle name," St. Clair County Circuit Judge Michael Cook pleaded not guilty to federal counts of possessing heroin ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214746274/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:20:34 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214746274/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fleet Composite Squadron 6 conducts boat operations off coast of Naval Station Norfolk, VA. (Credit: U.S. Navy) Yesterday Terry McAuliffe, Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214745040/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:19:24 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214745040/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- A Metro employee has been arrested and charged with stealing more than a dozen defibrillators from transit agency facilities and selling them ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214746000/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:11:53 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214746000/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Virginia Beach police officers are on the scene of a barricaded situation at West Great Neck Road and Great Neck Road, where someone has threatened to commit suicide and to harm anyone that tries to intervene. The city’s emergency communications center received a call about the situation just before 10:30 a.m., according to an email from police spokeswoman Grazia Moyers. She did not have ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214744626/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:25:49 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214744626/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 NEW YORK -- Delta Air Lines is opening a $1.4 billion terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport, strengthening its hand in the battle for the lucrative New York travel market.The expanded concourse offers sweeping views of the airport, upscale food and shopping options and increased seating.It replaces a decrepit terminal built by Pan Am in 1960 that was an embarrassing way to welcome ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743716/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:17:47 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743716/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia State Police Trooper is seriously injured after a crash involving his motorcycle and another car in Prince William ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214744750/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:45 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214744750/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 The panel charged with allocating new road and transit funds in Northern Virginia has selected 33 projects totaling $187.5 million for design and construction work next fiscal year. With the transportation funding bill adopted by the General Assembly now law, the 14-member Northern Virginia Transit Authority has started the process of choosing the projects that will get money first. The funding ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214744632/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:53:39 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214744632/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 This 18th-century English tobacco label shows African field hands and a Virginia planter as well as tobacco plants and hogsheads used for shipping the golden leaf across the ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743233/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 13:13:32 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743233/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Tech's governing board has appointed a search committee to find a replacement for retiring president Charles ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743364/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:47:24 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743364/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743236/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:42:41 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214743236/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Robert Douglas "Doug" Lawler, an executive at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., will join Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. on June 17. Doug Lawler will soon have a new job and a hefty paycheck to go along with it. The Anadarko Petroleum Corp. executive who on Monday was named CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. is due a total compensation of $12.6 million for 2013, according to a regulatory ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214742384/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 12:15:19 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214742384/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 See all 2 photos » RICHMOND (AP) -- Virginia State Police will boost road patrols over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Increased patrols begin Friday and continue through Monday night. It's part of the annual Operation CARE national traffic-enforcement effort. The additional patrols are aimed at reducing crashes, fatalities and injuries caused by speeding, impaired driving and ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214741681/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:58:13 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214741681/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- An American man accused of killing his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic was arrested after fleeing to the United ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214740476/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 11:11:01 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214740476/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 http://wapo.st/16XlGme ) that the agency also wants to let people pay with the wave of a smart phone, key fob or credit card as they board a bus or pass a fare ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214739714/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:38:01 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214739714/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 BRISTOL, Va. (AP) -- Several environmental protesters are facing charges after blocking the road leading to the headquarters for coal producer Alpha Natural Resources in ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214739708/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:38:00 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214739708/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 U.S. District Judge Irene Keeley has disqualified herself from hearing a lawsuit filed over a 6-year-old degree scandal at West Virginia University, citing a federal statute that requires judges to step aside if their impartiality could be questioned. The order doesn’t offer specifics, but Keeley is a past member of the WVU Board of Advisors, the predecessor to today’s Board of ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214739194/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 10:22:26 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214739194/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- A federal grand jury has indicted the owner, operator and chief engineer of a Maltese-flagged coal ship that has been detained in Virginia since April over alleged environmental ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214738877/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 09:42:38 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214738877/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Former major league pitcher Chris Ray pours one of his baseball-themed beers at The Diamond in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Proceeds from the specialty brew will be given to military families. (Joe Mahoney/Associated ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737520/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:38:52 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737520/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. Beachgoers in North Carolina this holiday weekend may get a rare opportunity to spot a gray seal. The seal was first spotted May 16 on the north end of Wrightsville Beach. Since then, it has moved on to Carolina Beach and Kure Beach. University of North Carolina at Wilmington marine biologist Ann Pabst says this is the furthest south the species has been spotted in North ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737225/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:03:40 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737225/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 SOUTH HILL, Va. (AP) -- A politically connected nutritional supplement maker's lawsuit against the state is moving forward after being stalled for more than a ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737265/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:53:48 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737265/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Police say the death of a 22-year-old Alexandria man who was shot in a confrontation with an off-duty sheriff's deputy has been ruled a ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737266/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:53:48 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737266/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Dominion Resources is making the largest ever private-sector donation to the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737267/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:53:47 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214737267/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214732678/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 04:02:13 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214732678/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon. Storm surge is the hurricane hazard that poses the greatest threat to life and property. It is the abnormal rise in sea water during a hurricane, and it can happen ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214732560/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:18:17 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214732560/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Several Northern Virginia security officers patrolling an apartment complex at 22:00hrs they noticed 2 Hispanic males loitering on the front steps of a ... http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214730984/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:38:10 -0400 http://www.thevirginiabeachnews.net/index.php/sid/214730984/scat/fec8f17e5c91e4e2