CRIME & SAFETY

Video captured the dramatic home when a duplex exploded. Officers had received a search warrant to investigate flare gunshots, but the suspect wouldn't come out.

Norah Horwitz was indicted by a grand jury Monday in the stabbing death of her father, Dr. Abbey Horwitz, a well-known Virginia Beach dentist.

A man is dead after a crash in Virginia Beach, police say.

A man caught on camera pointing a gun at a woman on I-64 in Newport News this September has been sentenced for the crime.

Joseph Samuel Grillo, 43, was sentenced for charges of DUI maiming - permanent injury, DUI maiming - serious injury, and DUI on Dec. 5 after pleading guilty to those charges on July 31.

Investigators say this happened around 2:45 a.m. in the 1000 block of Nansemond Pkwy. That’s near the Heritage Acres apartments.

The Portsmouth Fire Department says just before 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, a call came in about a home on fire in the Park Manor section of the city.

Marco Hicks, 30, admitted to first-degree murder in the Norfolk Circuit Court. He was charged with the shooting of his friend, Michael Rivera-Rubert, on September 4, 2022. The event took place in a Norfolk, Virginia strip mall parking lot. Surveillance footage showed Hicks shooting Rivera-Rubert in the head.

Neighbors are sharing their reactions to the news of the death of an infant at an apartment complex in Portsmouth

Court documents reveal new information about a shots-fired incident on the campus of Christopher Newport University last week.

He identified his girlfriend as Mrs. Johnson, said that she was not breathing and was located at his address on West 26th Street, and that he was calling from a 7-Eleven on Monticello Avenue.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A community is helping a Norfolk woman after a fire destroyed part of her home and killed 13 of her cats Sunday morning. Shawn Hocevar told 10 On Your Side that she runs an independent cat rescue out of the house. She called it the worst day of her life.

SUFFOLK, Va. — An investigation is underway after authorities say a man who opened fire was struck by a vehicle he shot at in Suffolk just after noon Tuesday. The Suffolk Police Department said a man, who has not been publicly identified, shot at a vehicle carrying three men on Lee Street near West Washington Street at 12:06 p.m. The driver in turn struck the alleged shooter with his vehicle, wounding the man.

(Fox Lake, IL) A man died over the weekend after being struck by a vehicle in the Fox Lake area. Police and fire officials say the 28-year-old victim was struck in the early morning hours of Sunday in the area of Route 59 and Grand Avenue. The man was transported to Advocate Condell where he was later pronounced dead. Coroner’s officials have identified the deceased as Troy Dowsett, of Portsmouth, Virginia…a cause of death was listed as blunt force injuries sustained in the incident. The driver of the offending vehicle, a 34-year-old man, was said to stay on scene and has been cooperative in the ongoing investigation. No charges have been announced at this point.

• A 50-year-old woman named Sherree Brown from Newport News has been missing since October 24. • Her daughter believes she was kidnapped, possibly by a man who previously tried to sexually assault her mother.

Crews responded to a fire that killed as many as seven cats just before 8:30 a.m. in the 500 block of Hyde Park Road.

The National Retail Federation reports, nationally, the amount of merchandise lost to theft, fraud and damages went up from $93.9 billion in 2021 to $112 billion in 2022. Viral videos seen on the news and online show the worst of it.

Portsmouth police officer Jeremy Durocher is facing two felonies for allegedly shooting a burglar in 2017.

SUFFOLK, Va. — A driver has been charged with driving under the influence after a crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Tuesday morning. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Director of Operations, Edward Spencer said that a northbound vehicle had struck a crash cushion protecting a maintenance lane closure at the North Channel Bridge around 2:35 a.m. Lanes reopened just before 5:00 a.m.

Portsmouth police say that shortly after 3:15 p.m., dispatchers received a call from a man stating that he shot a man who had tried to rob and shoot him.