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NEW KENT COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — An Amtrak train headed to Williamsburg and Newport News crashed into a pickup truck hauling a boat on Thursday morning in New Kent County. It happened around 10:45 a.m. at the railroad crossing at Riverside Drive and Waterside Drive near Chickahominy Shores in Lanexa. Virginia State Police say the…

NORTH CAROLINA (WJZY) — The country’s most-visited national park site, Blue Ridge Parkway, will remain closed indefinitely, the National Park Service said Wednesday.  The closure affects the entire length of the Blue Ridge Parkway, though some parts were hit harder than others by storm damage. It comes right as the region and scenic road typically…

Jordan Davis Palomares (Courtesy of the Chesapeake Police Department) CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A teacher at Deep Creek Middle School in Chesapeake has been arrested for the possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to police. Police say a criminal investigation led to the arrest of 25-year-old Jordan Palomares on Tuesday. He has been charged…

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A woman has serious injuries after an auto-pedestrian crash on Chesapeake Boulevard Thursday morning, police said. According to officials, around 7 a.m., officers were dispatched to the 9000 block of Chesapeake Boulevard in reference to the crash. Officers arrived to the scene and found a woman with life-threatening injuries. She was…

Video above shows a recap of the Virginia Senate debate NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Wednesday’s U.S. Senate debate between Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican challenger Hung Cao spilled over onto the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) with the hashtag #VASenateDebate. The only planned televised debate between the two candidates was held at…

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — There are some reports of panic buying in the Hampton Roads area the day U.S. dockworkers went on strike, which shut down ports on the East and Gulf coasts. WAVY viewers have sent photos of long lines at a BJ’s Wholesale Club in Hampton, where some items like toilet paper were…

NORFOLK, Va. (Nexstar) — The two candidates vying for Virginia’s open U.S. Senate seat are facing off in an live, televised debate on Wednesday night. Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine is set to debate Republican challenger Hung Cao live at 7 p.m. from the campus of Norfolk State University. More coverage: NSU students, political analyst preview…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Two hundred striking International Longshoremen Association workers from four different locals joined the picket line in Portsmouth, sending a united message to the owners of the shipping companies to raise their wages and curb automation. Cargo operations halt at Port of Virginia as strike begins “It has a lot to do…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – The man pulled out of the water at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront in critical condition on Sept. 21 has died, Virginia Beach police said. According to officials, just before 8:30 p.m., officers were dispatched to the Boardwalk at 16th Street for reports of a drowning. Body recovered from water at…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Since early 2022, 13 pedestrians have died after getting hit by traffic along Jefferson Avenue in Newport News, making it one of the deadliest streets in the region, according to data collected by each city in Hampton Roads. This comes as no surprise to the people who live nearby. Police: Pedestrian…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Portsmouth police are investigating four shootings — two of them deadly — that occurred with in hours of each other on Sunday. The first shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. on the 600 block of Lancer Drive. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAV) — Virginia Beach police are responding to an accident that sent five to the hospital on Sunday, police said. Courtesy: Amy Grimes Courtesy: Amy Grimes Courtesy: Amy Grimes The call came in at 4:15 p.m. The accident occurred at the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and International Parkway. Out of the five…

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (WAVY) — National Transportation Safety Board investigators are still trying to find out the cause of a deadly plane crash that killed five, including a child, on Saturday in North Carolina. The airplane crashed into a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport. “The airplane made an initial…

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (WAVY) — A single-engine airplane crashed in the Outer Banks on Saturday evening, causing multiple fatalities, officials said. Around 5 p.m., the airplane crashed into a wooded area at Wright Brothers National Memorial’s First Flight Airport. Eyewitnesses reported that the airplane was attempting to land at the airport, a release states.…

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WRIC) — A CSX freight train derailment caused delays and the cancellation of two Amtrak trains on Saturday evening. According to a CSX spokesperson, at around 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept 28. a CSX train derailed after it struck two trees on the mainline tracks near Denbigh Boulevard and Richneck Road in…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A wrong-way crash on I-264 has left two people in critical condition, according to Virginia State Police. Around 11:24 p.m. Friday, state police responded to a vehicle crash with injuries on I-264, westbound just east of Rosemont Road, in Virginia Beach. Photo Credit: Virginia State Police Photo Credit: Virginia State…

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Tornado and flash flood warnings for areas of northeastern North Carolina and across the Hampton Roads and Western Tidewater regions that had been effect have expired. Current Weather Alerts Super Doppler 10 meteorologist Ricky Matthews said there was a tornado on the ground near Corinth in Southampton County just after 4:30…

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — A widespread outage of Spectrum internet and cable services is affecting tens of thousands of customers in several states impacted by the remnants of Hurricane Helene, including parts of the Hampton Roads and Western Tidewater regions. Saturday morning, the Suffolk Police Department stated that the outage was affecting non-emergency phone…

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A quiet neighborhood in Norfolk experienced a nightmare on Sept. 3 of last year when a man with a rifle went on a terrifying rampage. It was a night that turned Alden Heights into a scene of chaos and fear, as 28-year-old Daniel Joseph Ferguson Jr. roamed the streets with a…

Last night then-hurricane Helene made landfall around 11:10pm EDT over the Big Bend region of Florida. Satellite/Radar At Landfall It made landfall near Perry, FL as a category 4 hurricane. Around that time our equipment recorded a wind gust to 120mph around Cedar Key, FL. The storm did produce a lot of damage and flooding…

RODANTHE, N.C. (WAVY) — More homes in Rodanthe are on the verge of collapsing into the ocean as the National Park Service is calling on property managers to make daily checks on them. According to the Outer Banks Association of Realtors, National Park Service Superintendent Dave Hallac contacted them early Tuesday evening calling on property…