Provides the latest RSS feeds for Virginia Beach 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/ en-us Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:44 -0500 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:44 -0500 30 The Virginia Beach Borough Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary will hold its 48th Annual Norwegian Lady Ceremony on Saturday, March 27 at 2 p.m. at the Norwegian Lady Statue located at the Ocea... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954899&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:12 -0500 City of Virginia Beach http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954899&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has a fight on his hands, and it's one he had to know was coming. The recently elected Cuccinelli wants Virginia public universities to abandon policies design... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32953023&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:05 -0500 U.S. News & World Report http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32953023&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 WASHINGTON (WAVY) - Local lawmakers and members of the Hampton Roads Military Affairs Commission sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead Tu... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954898&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:10:30 -0500 Fox 43 http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954898&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Google in the contest to become a test area for a high speed trial by the Internet giant, but the city will pull out all the stops, Mayor Molly Joseph Ward pledged today. Communities across the cou... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954895&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:15 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954895&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Expect very warm temperatures through the weekend! Temperatures will reach the upper 60s to low 70s. It will become mostly cloudy on Wednesday with rain arriving Wednesday night. Rain will stay in the... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954897&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:14 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954897&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Thomas Nelson Community College has planned a slate of events throughout March in observance of Women's History Month. As part of a statewide celebration titled "Minds Wide Open: http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954894&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:13 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954894&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Newport News Public Schools Superintendent Ashby Kilgore will share the district's proposed 2010-11 budget with the School Board at a 5:30 p.m. work session today. The meeting will be in the auditoriu... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954893&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:10 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954893&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) - Hampton Police are investigating a series of residential burglaries that occurred between January 31 and February 16 of this year in the Michaels Woods section of the city. Accor... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954900&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:26 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954900&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 WASHINGTON (WAVY) - Local lawmakers and members of the Hampton Roads Military Affairs Commission sent a letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead Tu... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954901&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:25 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954901&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - With your input, Virginia Beach may be one of possibly several areas across the nation to participate in a fiber broadband trial being conducted by Google. According to th... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954902&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:23 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954902&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 JAMES CITY - The James City County Board of Supervisors will meet at 7 p.m. tonight for their monthly board meeting. The meeting will include a public hearing on a proposal to build a proposal to ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954903&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:39:34 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32954903&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Google is planning to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the United States. Google’s stated intention is for these proposed fiber networks t... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951569&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:42:21 -0500 City of Virginia Beach http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951569&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Virginia are facing unprecedented budget challenges for 2010-11. So city managers and school boards are looking for more ideas on how to handle budget cuts. Many are bringing in new technology to r... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951566&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:17:04 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951566&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - Beach police quickly apprehended a juvenile who pulled a knife on a gas station clerk and demanded money at a Citgo service station on Northampton Boulevard Monday. Police... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951572&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:51:45 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951572&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - Changes go into effect later this week at the Berkley Bridge. Starting Wednesday, the Coast Guard can request an opening 30 minutes past the scheduled Berkley Bridge lifts. http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951571&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:51:42 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951571&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - Virginia Beach police are looking for a suspect they say robbed two female victims at gunpoint as they walked to their cars in the parking lot of the Little Creek Commissa... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951570&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:51:41 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951570&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PASCO, Wash. -- The mayor of Pasco is saying goodbye to follow her heart. The Tri-City Herald reports an emotional Mayor Joyce Olson told the city council Monday night she'll ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951565&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:25:42 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32951565&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Hampton’s newest shopping destination, the Peninsula Town Center, is hosting its grand opening celebration on Thursday (March 11). That means a ribbon cutting and a speech by the mayor, but it also ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948371&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:34:50 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948371&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 , a Virginia-born songwriter whose moody, melodic rock songs were championed by members of bands including Radiohead, the Flaming Lips and Cracker, took his life Saturday, March 6, in Knoxville, Tenn.... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948372&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:34:49 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948372&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 YORK - —York County's School Board received an update Monday night on the different versions of the state budget floating around Richmond, but didn't discuss further the specifics of its own bu... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948373&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:34:48 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948373&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 SOUTHAMPTON - Former Franklin attorney James Edward Moyler Jr., 79, of Williamsburg, will be in Southampton Circuit Court this morning for sentencing on six counts of embezzlement. Moyler pleaded ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948374&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:34:46 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948374&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 The memo from the Boss arrived yesterday requesting our game-by-game ACC basketball tournament predictions. This can only mean two things: * He sees yet another opportunity to humiliate us. * He an... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948377&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:34:46 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948377&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - Fire officials are warning Portsmouth residents of a man allegedly identifying himself as a firefighter and trying to make entry into their homes in Portsmouth while claiming ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948375&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:12:17 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948375&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) - The second suspect in the shooting of a Newport News police officer last Wednesday night turned himself into police Monday, according to Harold O. Eley, assistant public inf... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948376&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:12:15 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948376&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 SOUTHAMPTON - Former Franklin attorney James Edward Moyler Jr., 79, of Williamsburg, will be in Southampton Circuit Court this morning for sentencing on six counts of embezzlement. Moyler pleaded ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948378&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:10:50 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32948378&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Article Reprints State lawmakers appear ready to increase the independence of West Virginia's local governments, and they aren't waiting on results from an ongoing experiment on the subject. The Sena... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32946353&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:57:38 -0500 Insurance Journal http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32946353&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 NORFOLK - The first of three eggs in the eagle nest at Norfolk Botanical Garden is expected to hatch some time this week. That first egg was laid Jan. 31 when snow filled the nest. This is the sev... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32945070&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:35:26 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32945070&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Allen Iverson says he's experiencing "tough times" a week after it was decided he would not return to the team and his wife filed for divorce. Iverson posted four messages Monday night on his http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32941417&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:08:59 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32941417&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 At the Downtown Tunnel, a disabled vehicle is blocking all eastbound traffic to Norfolk on I-264, causing a two-mile backup to Frederick Boulevard. Westbound traffic to Portsmouth is backed up two mil... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32941418&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:08:57 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32941418&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A major road project in Virginia Beach is officially underway. Two extra lanes will be added to Witchduck Road--from Bonney Road to Greenwich Road. It will go from four to... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32941420&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:46:54 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32941420&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Peggy Totten of Hampton is this year's winner of the Daily Press Oscar contest. Totten was one of four readers who correctly predicted winners in 11 of the 12 categories used in the contest, and sh... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32938644&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:28:34 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32938644&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32938645&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:28:32 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32938645&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 ATLANTA, GA, March 09, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- HighPoints Learning (HPL) announced today that it has received approval to be a Supplemental Educational Services - SES - provider for mathematics in ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32934269&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:18:47 -0500 24 / 7 Press Release http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32934269&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 NEWPORT NEWS — The city could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars or more when selling the land around the King William Reservoir. "One would think that we would not recover what we paid," ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32930348&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:40:03 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32930348&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 SUFFOLK, Va (WAVY) - Monday, Suffolk school leaders contemplated what the General Assembly's budget will bring for schools next year. During another special session on potential cuts, Superintendent D... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32930350&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:20:33 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32930350&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 The war drags on as political pressure mounts back home. Troops are stretched thin. A decisive, end-it-all victory isn't happening. This isn't the latest news from http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928466&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:09:01 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928466&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 A Suffolk man was arrested over the weekend and charged with firing shots into the home of his ex-girlfriend, and could face additional charges after officers found an illegal cache of weapons and amm... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928471&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:59 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928471&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Smithfield Volunteer Fire Department. The department is planning a new, larger facility to accommodate the vehicles.--> The new Smithfield Volunteer Fire Department will only have sleeping space for 1... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928470&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:56 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928470&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Isle of Wight County's sprawling 363 square miles. After postponing the purchase of new patrol cars this year, the Isle of Wight Sheriff's Office needs 10 new cruisers — at a cost of $300,000... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928469&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:54 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928469&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Hospitals have called off a ban on visitors younger than 18. Since mid-October, local hospitals have prohibited visitors younger than 18 as a precaution to help prevent the spread of http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928468&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:52 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928468&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Norfolk , sits out on a point on Mill Creek in the late afternoon to try his luck at fishing ast September.-->State lawmakers are clashing over a bill that would supersede new guidelines requiring http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928467&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:50 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32928467&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Suffolk - Police have closed part of Route 10 after a motocyclist collided with another vehicle this evening, police said. The driver of the motorcycle, who was unresponsive at the scene, will be ... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32924440&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:11:00 -0500 Daily Press http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32924440&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - The north and southbound lanes of Route 10 are blocked by a two vehicle accident in the 4300 block of Godwin Boulevard, according to Debbie George with Suffolk police. http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32924441&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:13 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32924441&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Newport News, Va. (WAVY) - After years of coping with gunfire on their streets, residents in the east end of Newport News may now see progress in their battle against crime. Out of the six deadly shoo... http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32924442&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:11 -0500 WAVY http://feeds.thevirginiabeachnews.net/?rid=32924442&cat=622ebe3a790ef0e4