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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Amazon will build a new multi-story robotics fulfillment center and delivery station that it said would bring more than 1,000 jobs to Virginia Beach, the company, city officials and Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. Youngkin was in Virginia Beach Monday to make the major economic announcement. Virginia Beach Mayor Bobby…

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Two men face first-degree murder and other charges in connection to the March shooting death of a 19-year-old in Hampton that also left another person injured, police said Monday. Janylen O’Keefe Chapman Janylen O’Keefe Chapman, 20, of Hampton, was arrested August 21 in Hampton and charged with one count of first-degree…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Lavair Randle had battled addiction for three decades. The 58-year-old man was in the process of going back to rehab when he died of an overdose last month. His body, his family said, was found next to a fire hydrant on Loretta Lane in Virginia Beach. “Just imagining his last…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Students were left scrambling after The Art Institute announced it would be closing its doors for good. The Art Institute of Virginia Beach, along with all of the other campuses in the Art Institute system, will close permanently on September 30. Justice Perez Sanders, a graphic design student at the…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — In the last year, at least two shopping center developers went before local city councils to ask what may seem like an unusual request: permission to convert part of their property into an apartment complex. Initially, many might have raised eyebrows about such a move, with parking lots for people’s…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Chesapeake police say five people were shot Saturday in an incident on Drayton Road, leaving a 14-year-old boy dead and two other male juveniles hurt. Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, a call was received about gunshots fired at the 1300 block of Drayton Road in the greater Campostella area, according to…

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — The Chesapeake Police Department are investigating a shooting in the 1300 block of Drayton Road that has left five people, including four juveniles, injured. WAVY 10 Raven Payne was on the scene to provide updates. At around 5 p.m., a call was received about gunshots fired at this location, according to…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Tropical Storm Ophelia unleashed heavy rain across Virginia and North Carolina, causing flooding and power outages. Weather on WAVY.com The storm made landfall Saturday morning around Emerald Isle in coastal North Carolina. The National Weather Service issued a couple tornado warnings across the WAVY viewing area Saturday morning, for parts of northeast…

Current Weather Alerts The center of Ophelia made landfall this morning around Emerald Isle in coastal North Carolina. On the eastern side of the storm, we’ve seen some dry air wrap into it. The National Weather Service issued a couple tornado warnings across the viewing area during the 7 a.m. hour Saturday, for parts of…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Tropical Storm Ophelia swirled across North Carolina after making landfall near Emerald Isle early Saturday, lashing eastern parts of the state with rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges of water. The storm came ashore with near-hurricane-strength winds of 70 mph (110 kph) at around 6:15 a.m. and was expected to weaken…

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Tropical Storm Ophelia has caused more than 96,000 power outages in Virginia and North Carolina. Currently, there are 14,8000 customers without power. A spokesperson from Dominion Energy said more outages could occur as the storm moves across our area. The storm’s biggest impact has been in Hampton Roads and northeastern…

Wet and windy conditions are expected Friday and Saturday across the area as a tropical storm makes landfall in southeastern NC. A storm surge warning is also in effect for most of the WAVY viewing area. HAMPTON ROADS AND EASTERN VA IMPACTS: WIND: 30-45 mph gusts, with some higher gusts along the coastline. RAIN: 2″…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The National Weather Service has issued a tropical storm warning and a storm surge warning for the WAVY viewing area for this weekend beginning Friday, Sept. 22. The severe weather is expected to bring heavy rain, significant flooding and strong winds to our region. The storm surge warning is in effect…

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) – The weather is going to put a damper on some weekend plans, but there is still plenty to do around Hampton Roads this weekend. Note: Upcoming weather has already started to impact events this weekend. Check with the event for updates and cancellations. As WAVY confirms additional impacted local events,…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – Jurors in the murder trial of Adrian Lewis heard emotional testimony from his son and sister-in-law Wednesday, along with Lewis’s girlfriend. Lewis is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shanita Eure-Lewis, although she has never been found. Eure-Lewis was never seen or heard from again after the morning…

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A 30-year-old man was shot in Norfolk on Wednesday night, police said. Norfolk Police responded to a call in the 5200 block of Norvella Avenue, in the Norvella Heights neighborhood just south of Norview Avenue, for a gunshot victim around 10:34 p.m. Police say he was taken to the hospital for…

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Portsmouth man pleaded guilty Tuesday to multiple charges, including aggravated malicious wounding, and was convicted in Norfolk on those charges after he shot another man in the head during an argument. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Norfolk shooting suspect arrested in Bloomington, Illinois Travarish Depree Carpenter, 31, was also convicted on charges of…

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The images are haunting — what a 7-Eleven clerk in Suffolk saw more than four months ago, right before he was shot and killed. To this day, police haven’t arrested either of the two assailants. 20-year-old Ketron Smith was shot and killed at the 7-Eleven store on Carolina Road in Suffolk.…

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash Tuesday evening on Mineral Spring Road near the intersection of Great Fork Road in Suffolk, police said. Suffolk Police said the road in that area would be closed for an extended period while the investigation takes place. Police said the driver was the…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Portsmouth police are investigating a shooting that left a juvenile injured Tuesday evening. Click here to subscribe to WAVY’s breaking news email alert Police were notified of a shooting just before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 30 block of Dale Drive, officials say. When units arrived on scene, they located a…

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — By now you’ve heard the crackling sounds and the flames that took down the Nicoll house on 15th Bay Street in Ocean View.  Norfolk woman runs in to save neighbor before house burns to the ground On Monday, we found Doug Nicoll in the ashes of his home — a family-owned lot since 1994. The house has been there since 2010, filled with…