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Ali Sullivan is a general assignment reporter covering mostly breaking news. She joined the paper in 2021 after graduating from the University of Virginia.
The chair and vice chair will head Norfolk's school board in interim capacity until Dec. 31, shortly before school board members elected in November are sworn in.
Gilbert Merritt III was convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder following a trial dependent on testimony from a witness who later recanted her statements as well as from Norfolk police detective Robert Glenn Ford, who was later convicted on federal charges. Merritt was exonerated July 11 after serving more than 20 years of a 30-year prison sentence.
Though rip currents and jellyfish stings pose a far more likely threat to humans than the ocean’s apex predators, sharks do frequent the region’s waters. A handful of events in and around Hampton Roads this week provide opportunities to learn more.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the shooting, facing charges of reckless handling of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a juvenile.
The fire engulfed a building owned by MAR-JA Incorporated, in the 300 block of Moore Avenue. The fire was reported at 5:26 a.m. and marked as under control about two hours later.