A face that Hokie fans and many in our region know well, Michael Vick, will be the next head coach for the Norfolk State Spartans football program, the former NFL superstar and Virginia Tech Quarterback announced on his Facebook Tuesday evening.

The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic says it hasn't settled on any future plans to retrieve more artifacts from the shipwreck.

The Hokies are facing off against the Monarchs!

The city of Norfolk, Virginia, has repealed a 45-year-old ban on palm reading and clairvoyance for money.

Highly touted prospect Jackson Holliday has been optioned to the minor leagues by the Baltimore Orioles after starting his big league career with a disappointing thud.

Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in Ohio.

Virginia State Police have issued an Amber Alert for a child abducted on Sunday at 7:30 a.m. from Norfolk, Virginia.

A military-themed brewery will open in Virginia despite some community opposition.

A group of residents have sued a public utility company in the U.S. Virgin Islands after authorities there reported finding high levels of lead and copper in the tap water on St. Croix.

Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene.

Officials say they plan to conduct safety investigations of all the major freight railroads over the next year.

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and rivers.

Concerned with preventing growing numbers of suicides, the US Navy is planning to make chaplains regular members of the crew on ships with more than 300 sailors, instead of only the largest carriers as in the past.

Crews in Ohio have released toxic chemicals from five cars of a derailed train near the Pennsylvania state line to reduce the threat of an explosion.

Officials monitoring the smoldering, tangled wreckage of a train derailment in Ohio have warned hundreds of nearby residents who had declined to evacuate to do so immediately, citing concerns about a potential explosion.

A train derailment and resulting large fire have prompted an evacuation order in an Ohio village near the Pennsylvania state line.

Three suicides by sailors assigned to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier were not connected, but the poor quality of life onboard was a “contributing factor” in one of the deaths.

Old Dominion University Police Chief Garrett Shelton says a person of interest has been identified in the Virginia Tech football locker room theft on Sept. 2.

Hokies seeking a home-opening win and first win under head coach Brent Pry.

Two people were killed and five others were injured by gunfire after a fight broke out at a party in Norfolk, Virginia, police said Sunday.

Blake Watson scored on a 1-yard run with 33 seconds to play and Old Dominion beat Virginia Tech for the second time in as many tries on its home field, 20-17.

The Hokies are trailing behind Old Dominion University at halftime in their season opener, 10-7.

The Monarchs will be without their second leading rusher when they face Virginia Tech Friday night.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has cemented her place as front-runner in the race to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson by winning endorsement from an influential former rival.

Authorities say a Virginia newspaper reporter was one of two people killed during a shooting outside a restaurant and bar.

The increasing threat of sea-level rise on Virginia’s coast means that an afternoon rainstorm can strand drivers for hours and damage cars beyond repair.

Freezing rain, sleet and snow blew into coastal areas stretching from South Carolina to Virginia.

Economists at Old Dominion University say some of Virginia’s smaller metropolitan areas are being left behind as population growth and economic activity shift to major metropolitan areas.

Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams was in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to urge Black churchgoers to turn out for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in next month’s Virginia governor’s election.

A former Virginia police officer has been indicted on charges stemming from his attempts to produce child pornography, receiving images and trying to access it on a cell phone, a federal prosecutor said.

A Virginia university is offering money to students, faculty and staff who can show proof of a vaccination against COVID-19.

A former pharmacy technician on Friday pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining some 50,000 doses of opioids and other prescription medications.

Southwest Airlines says it no longer expects to be profitable in its third quarter.

Virginia State Police have issued a senior alert for a woman whose disappearance poses a credible threat to her health and safety.

The Virginia Zoo is welcoming its first baby Southern white rhinoceros.

A newspaper's analysis of state data shows that across Virginia, Black drivers are the only racial or ethnic group stopped by police at a higher rate than their share of the population.

Virginia State Police have issued a senior alert for a missing 85-year-old man who was last seen leaving his home in Norfolk.

Maddix Brothers has been found and he’s safe, Vinton police announced on Friday.

The wonderful weather from this weekend made it the perfect time to get out and enjoy the water.

Four children are recovering in the hospital after being shot Friday afternoon.

Military weapons including pistols and a medium machine gun have been lost or stolen from bases in Virginia.

An outside probe into how Virginia's government watchdog agency conducted an investigation of a controversial parole decision found no inappropriate political interference by Gov. Ralph Northam's administration and concluded the lead investigator was likely biased.

A neo-Nazi group member whose talk of planning an attack at a Virginia gun rights rally was secretly recorded by the FBI has pleaded guilty to gun charges and obstruction of justice.

A Norfolk mail carrier has been charged with diverting packages filled with marijuana to a drug dealer in exchange for bribes, according to court documents.

Roanoke’s history is deeply rooted in the railroad.

A Virginia teacher is getting national recognition for finding a way to ensure her students' art got the recognition it deserves amidst the pandemic.

The Virginia city of Norfolk has fired a police lieutenant after news reports that said he donated to and expressed support for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager accused of killing two people during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer.

Calling it one of the toughest marathons ever, runners said the Blue Ridge Marathon was hard to defeat.

Two tigers at a zoo in Virginia have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is backing Terry McAuliffe in the race to succeed him, handing his predecessor one of the contest’s most coveted endorsements.

Join Bridget and Lindsay for the second day of wedding week! They chat about a woman in Norfolk looking to donate her dress to a bride in need, how a couple celebrates their 50th anniversary with a photoshoot, and how to reschedule your wedding due to the pandemic.

Naval Academy wants the state of Wisconsin to return the statue. The statue, crafted from melted-down cannons seized from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, was affixed to the first USS Wisconsin prior to World War I. The academy museum contacted state officials last March seeking the statue's return so it could be loaned to the nonprofit Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, where the second USS Wisconsin is berthed as an exhibit. Academy museum director Claude Berube last week consulted with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican and former Marine. AdThe academy museum previously extended the state loan until mid-September due to COVID-induced closures in Norfolk.

A Badger and Shield statue is seen outside the governor's Capitol office in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Naval Academy wants the state of Wisconsin to return the statue. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin badger statue that has served as a literal touchstone for so many Capitol building visitors that they've rubbed the finish off his nose could be headed to another den soon. It was affixed to the USS Wisconsin battleship before World War I. He also noted that the academy museum had to return former President Jimmy Carter's plebe uniform to his museum in 2019.

(Joe Giddens/PA via AP)PARIS – At least 50 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet, including land and sea, over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues, during a global summit Monday aimed at protecting the world's biodiversity. About 30 leaders, government officials and heads of international organizations participated in the One Planet Summit, which was being held by videoconference because of the coronavirus pandemic. During his campaign, Biden pledged to better protect biodiversity by preserving 30% of American lands and waters by 2030. Another initiative involves a new coalition of Mediterranean countries working to better protect the sea from pollution and overfishing. ___Follow all AP coverage of climate change issues at https://apnews.com/hub/Climate.

Many people at airports this week thought long and hard about whether to go somewhere and found a way to rationalize it. More than 5 million people passed through the nation’s airport security checkpoints between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Transportation Security Administration. But it amounts to around a million passengers per day, or about what the U.S. saw in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, when some Americans likewise disregarded warnings and ended up contributing to the nationwide surge. There is no guarantee from one year to the next,” she said as “Silver Bells” played over the airport speakers. Overall, the AAA projected that about 85 million people will travel between Wednesday and Jan. 3, most of them by car.

NORFOLK, Va. – A new report from Old Dominion University says that it will likely take years for the state of Virginia to achieve a complete economic recovery from the devastating coronavirus pandemic. The project comes from the 2020 State of the Commonwealth Report from ODU’s Strome College of Business. Sunday’s report said the pandemic ended a record of 11 straight quarters of economic growth and wiped out nearly a decade of job gains. But by April 2020, about 438,000 jobs in Virginia were temporarily furloughed or permanently laid off. And while Virginia has recovered about 200,000 jobs since then, there has been slowing job growth.

NORFOLK, Va. – Health care workers in Virginia started receiving the state’s first doses of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, kicking off what is likely to be a months-long process of inoculating people from the potentially deadly disease. The Ballad Health system broadcast live video of registered nurse Emily Boucher getting her first shot in an area of southwestern Virginia. Ballad Health is set to administer its first COVID-19 vaccine Ballad Health nurse Emily Boucher is set to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine in the Tri-Cities region. She spoke of patients “who are alone and lonely and scared” and the healthcare workers who sometimes hold up phones to patients’ ears “so they can hear a familiar voice.”Several health care workers at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in the eastern part of the state also received injections. “My heart really goes out to our frontline health care workers, those that have come in every day,” said Gov.

Centra Health is set to give an update on coronavirus and the distribution of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The FDA has cleared the Pfizer vaccine for use in the United States, and Virginia’s first dose is set to be administered around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Norfolk. Vaccines in our area will start being administered on Wednesday at the earliest. Ralph Northam laid out the state’s three-phase plan for vaccine distribution. On Tuesday, Virginia reported 3,160 new coronavirus cases, bringing the statewide total to 288,309 since the pandemic began.

NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia man who authorities say used a fraudulently obtained $350,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan for personal expenses has pleaded guilty to bank fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a statement Scott Suber entered the plea in federal court Wednesday. Court documents say Suber’s application for the loan fabricated the number of employees at his Virginia Beach-based business. The statement says he also fabricated how much he had to pay in wages at Debris or Not Debris Property Preservation. Prosecutors say he took a trip to Las Vegas after he got the money.

A hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, says it has treated seven children with a serious health condition linked to the coronavirusThe Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday that the children were treated at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. It affects various parts of the body and may cause problems with a young patient’s heart and other vital organs. Most children with the condition have a fever lasting several days and symptoms such as irritability, abdominal pain and swollen hands and feet. The hospital is helping others learn how to treat the condition based on its experiences. ___This article has been corrected to show that the children are no longer being treated at the hospital and have been released.

While many eyes will be on the presidential race four different items to pay close attention to are casino votes across Virginia. Voters in Bristol, Danville, Norfolk and Portsmouth all have the chance to either approve or reject a casino being built in their city. Interested in the results of other races? Use the picker below:Find Race ResultsGet the latest Virginia Election news here

Maya Gebler, center, Cate and Sophie Carroll , right, write letters to fairies in Norfolk, Virginia on Monday Oct. 12, 2020. In the last few months, more than 700 letters have arrived at a fairy tree village outside the home of a journalist and children's book author. "And they want to write to you.”Beneath a crape myrtle at the edge of a lawn in Norfolk lies a fairy village. Another offers responses from the likes of the Fairy Godmother, Fairy Queen Lysandra and Tinker Bell. The fairy tree village appeared in July outside the home of journalist and children’s book author Lisa Suhay, 55, a mother of five.

Va. – Democratic Sen. Mark Warner and his Republican challenger, Dr. Daniel Gade faced off in Virginia’s U.S. Senatorial Debate on Saturday evening. The debate focused on racial disparities and inequities in education, healthcare, economic mobility and the criminal justice system, WAVY reports. The event began at 5:00 p.m. at Norfolk State University, which is the state’s largest Historically Black College and University.

NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Aquarium team had to euthanize a 700-pound sea turtle that became stranded on a beach. The aquarium’s Stranding Response Team was called to a Norfolk beach Monday morning after beachgoers noticed the giant leatherback turtle on the shore. Witnesses said there was blood on its shell and the reptile spent hours walking in circles toward the water. Aquarium spokeswoman Natalie Sims said the team monitored the turtle and decided to euthanize it Tuesday. Experts say that Leatherbacks can be up to 7 feet long and weigh up to 2,000 pounds.

NORFOLK, Va. – A Virginia Aquarium team had to euthanize a 700-pound sea turtle that became stranded on a beach. The aquarium’s Stranding Response Team was called to a Norfolk beach Monday morning after beachgoers noticed the giant leatherback turtle on the shore, news outlets reported. The team monitored the turtle and consulted with other agencies before deciding to euthanize the turtle Tuesday, aquarium spokeswoman Natalie Sims said. They should be able to handle some rough surf,” Susan Barco, a senior scientist on the response team added. “We feel confident the turtle was not going to survive in the wild.”

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has filed paperwork to run for his old job next year but says he's still hasn't made a decision yet.

NORFOLK, Va. – Former Virginia news anchor and Richmond native Jane Gardner died Saturday night after her fifth bout with cancer. The Richmond native returned home to join WTVR-TV in 1976. In 1990, Gardner moved to WTKR-TV in Norfolk to become the co-anchor for the station’s 6 and 11 p.m. newcasts. Friends say she seemed unbeatable after prevailing against skin cancer in 2009, ovarian cancer in 2015 and lung cancer in 2016. “There are people who are so much worse off than me,” Gardner said in a 2015 interview with WTKR about her ovarian cancer diagnosis.

NORFOLK, Va. – Officials in Virginia Beach say firefighters were pushed and kicked as they tried to treat a man seriously injured in a motorcycle crash. The Virginian-Pilot reports a man riding a motorcycle on Monday apparently lost control and crashed into a tree. Max Gonano, president of Virginia Beach’s Professional Firefighters Association, said firefighters were attempting to treat the man when a crowd angrily questioned the firefighters about why it took them so long to respond. A fire department briefing said some in the crowd followed an ambulance to a hospital, where they damaged at least one EMS vehicle. Police said the unidentified man was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

NORFOLK, Va. – The mayor of Norfolk has announced that out of concern for public safety, crews will relocate a statue that sits atop a tall Confederate monument in the city’s downtown. The move comes a day after a man in his 30s suffered life-threatening injuries when protesters toppled a statue in nearby Portsmouth. Mayor Kenneth Cooper Alexander cited the man’s injuries and said the statue would be moved to a historic cemetery. City leaders have wanted to move it for years but a state law prohibited doing so. The new version doesn’t take effect until July 1, but Alexander said public safety trumps waiting.

NORFOLK, Va. – President Donald Trump helped send off a naval hospital ship Saturday before departed for New York City. The USNS Comfort, a 1,000-bed hospital ship, had been undergoing planned maintenance, but was rushed back into service to aid the city which is now the epicenter of the nation’s outbreak. It is scheduled to arrive Monday at a Manhattan pier a week after its sister ship, the USNS Mercy arrived in Los Angeles to preform similar duty on the West Coast. “I think it’s a good thing when I go over there and I say ‘thank you,’” Trump told reporters Friday. He added he wanted to make the trip to show “spirit for the country.”

This sign placed at an entrance of Norfolk's MacArthur Center asks shoppers to "please remove hoods" before entering the mall. (WTKR)NORFOLK, Virginia (WTKR) - There's a new sign posted at each entrance of MacArthur Center. This sign placed at an entrance of Norfolk's MacArthur Center asks shoppers to "please remove hoods" before entering the mall. The sign reads, "Please remove hoods before entering MacArthur Center." To help reduce the number of people just hanging out, the mall removed public seating areas - including a charging station.

Megan Monaco and Joe Fetrow were visiting from Norfolk, Virginia, taking engagement pictures in front of Philadelphia's famous art museum when a familiar face jumped into the frame with them. Jason Segel, in town filming a movie, straight up photobombed their Saturday shoot. "You don't expect something like that to happen ... and then it does, and it was so fun," Monaco told CNN. "Then he said, 'Just keep doing what you're doing I'll get in a photo with you!'" Cassario said that as a photographer, getting a perfect focus on the first shot is relatively difficult, and the photographer nailed it.

US Navy boat found in Ireland nearly a year after it went missing during training operations in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN) - Crew members from a ferry company in Ireland said they made an unexpected discovery with U.S. ties this week when they found a Navy boat floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Intrigued, the ferry company took to social media Tuesday with their discovery. So how did the boat survive over 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean? This is the second time in 15 years that a boat has gone missing at sea, according to Boulay.

ROANOKE, Va. - We're tracking where deadly drunken driving crashes happened across Virginia between 2014 and 2018. Southwest Virginia was on the lower end of these crashes - with Pittsylvania County being an outlier with six or seven deadly crashes a year. A campaign is underway in Virginia to put the brakes on drunk driving. This is the 18th year for the Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign. Last year, specifically, we had double-digit gains on people planning ahead, feeling it's important to plan ahead and making a conscious decision about planning ahead before they go out."

WASHINGTON - The city of Roanoke will receive more than $2.5 million in federal funding for affordable housing. Virginia's U.S. senators, Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, announced Wednesday that $9.7 million in federal funding will support access to safe and affordable housing in Norfolk, Roanoke and Loudoun County. The funding will address homelessness and support housing for low- and moderate-income Virginians. HOME is the largest federal block grant to state and local governments designed exclusively to create affordable housing for low-income households. Emergency Solutions Grants ProgramNorfolk gets $366,887Roanoke gets $146,988Provides funding to engage homeless individuals and families living on the street, improve the number and quality of emergency shelters for homeless individuals and families, rapidly re-house homeless individuals and families and prevent families and individuals from becoming homeless.

Contestants from around the globe squared off a pub in Norfolk, England, for the 11th annual World Thumb Wrestling Championships this past weekend. The rules of thumb wrestling are we have best of three rounds, they're 60-second rounds," Roy Van Bellis, who organizes the championship contest, told Reuters. "To start the match off, we have a professional thumb ring where people put their thumbs and get a good grip inside the ring and then they'll say '1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war.'" The competition was fierce, with Paul "Under the Thumb" Browse triumphing over "The Thumbertaker," while in the women's division, Janet "Nanny Thumb" Coleman beat "Suzy Thumb." RELATED STORIESSocial Media Lights Up as U.S. Women's Team Claims 4th World Cup TitleFrench Midfielder Played in World Cup Final With Stomach BugLets Get Ready to Slowly Rumble!

They say slow and steady wins the race, but what if all the participants are slow and steady? The competition was fierce at the World Snail Racing Championships in Norfolk, England, on Saturday, a race that takes place annually and this year featured more than 160 snails. Humans can bring their own snails or choose one from the competition organizers that day. Multiple heats are hosted throughout the day, with the final race including each heat's winners. "It's not what I expected to do with my Saturday but you know, really perhaps it's a new career for me in snail racing, snail championships."

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. – A man was killed by a Norfolk-Southern train in Campbell County on Saturday afternoon after he sat in the middle of the tracks and refused to move, Virginia State Police said. Authorities said the train engineer blew his horn repeatedly to alert the man, but he still refused to move from a crossing at Plum Branch Road in Concord. The train wasn't able to stop in time and struck the man, who died at the scene, according to authorities. Police said the investigation is ongoing and they are still in the process of confirming the man's identity.