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Shahida Williams scored 20 points on 10-for-11 shooting Sunday night and Old Dominion ended its six-game losing streak in the NCAA tournament with an 82-62 victory against 12th-seeded Liberty in the first round of the Greensboro regional.The Lady...
Names of the Norfolk 17, black students who were educated at First Baptist Church during Virginia’s “Massive Resistance” to school desegregation. The 17 went on to integrate the city’s schools.Lavera Forbes BrownDelores Johnson BrownLouis...
The “Norfolk 17″ were honored Sunday at the church that educated them 50 years ago when six of the city’s all-white public schools closed under Virginia’s defiant response to court-ordered desegregation.Ten of the 14 surviving members of the Norfolk...
Former track star Tim Montgomery has pleaded guilty to a federal heroin distribution charge days before he was set to go to trial in Virginia.Montgomery entered the plea Thursday and faces a minimum of five years in prison.The Olympic gold medalist and...
The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife.It was an unremarkable ceremony _ except that several weeks later, officials realized the shapely bride might not...
The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife.It was an unremarkable ceremony _ except that several weeks later, officials realized the shapely bride might not...
The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife.It was an unremarkable ceremony _ except that several weeks later, officials realized the shapely bride might not...
Kentucky Fried Chicken franchisees in Canada have reached an agreement with animal rights activists to buy chickens for their restaurants from suppliers who use a more humane method of slaughter than throat slitting.The Norfolk-based People for the...
A former Navy SEAL trainee convicted 12 years ago of abducting and killing a vacationing college student is making a last effort in court to clear his name.Dustin Turner, 33, is hoping to get his conviction overturned on the strength of fellow SEAL...
A couple sought in the slayings of a Meals on Wheels volunteer and her client surrendered Friday after a five-hour standoff in a shopping mall parking garage, state police said.Timothy Hartford Jr., 38, and Ashley Smith, 26, are suspects in the Thursday...
Barack Obama’s pastor has made his first public appearance since the furor over his remarks criticizing the United States. He said nothing about the Democratic presidential candidate or the uproar itself.The Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached Sunday at a...
Sunita Williams, the second woman after Kalpana Chawla is all ready to board for her space mission by seventh of December with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Flight engineer Williams will join six other crews as Discovery lifts...
A local information website has set out to rate Britain’s greenest town. To rank them, it has analyzed the number of businesses good for the environment — like those associated with recycling, prevention of pollution and conservation of...
A number of places in the UK have claimed to be giving free wireless connections for the community to boost up Internet usage, but only Norfolk has it up and running.
Norfolk is presently running an eight-week-old experiment, which is being funded by...
Appearance of H7 form of bird flu in dead birds in Norfolk farm causes the killing of about 35000 chickens. There is no sign of H5N1 strain in the chickens which is more dangerous. Movements of the birds are banned now out of the boiler breeder.
Workers...
The beautiful art of tattoos will get a new life in Norfolk with officials planning to lift the 54-year-old ban on tattoo parlors. The ban was imposed in 1952. If the Norfolk’s Planning Commission approves the scrapping of the ban, artists can start...
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Throughout the world, Operation Smile volunteers repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. (PRNewsFoto/Operation Smile, Marc Ascher)
