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Peter Dujardin has been a reporter at the Daily Press for more than 20 years. He has mostly covered courts and criminal justice issues for the past 14 years. That includes policing issues, and criminal and civil cases in both state and federal courts.
Michael Covey, 39, who served for 16 years with Newport News police until his arrest last June, pleaded guilty in September to three of the eight charges against him.
A law firm for a student who was shot in the head at Heritage High School in September 2021 has filed a notice of claim against Newport News Public Schools over the shooting, asserting NNPS and other entities failed in their duties to keep students safe.
FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke during a homeland security symposium at Christopher Newport University a day after an appearance at the bureau's Norfolk field office in Chesapeake.
In a visit to the FBI's Norfolk Field Office on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray calls "the Chinese government" the single greatest threat to the economic and national security of the United States.
A judge threw out a petition seeking to have a special grand jury investigate Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney Ramin Fatehi as a public nuisance. The judge criticized the attempt as a publicity stunt and ordered Amina Matheny-Willard, the attorney who filed it, to pay a $500 fine.
The Peninsula Airport Commission met in closed session Jan. 26 to discuss the performance of Airport Executive Director Mike Giardino, who has led the airport for five years. That follows a Dec. 1 meeting at which the executive director’s performance was also discussed.
The 6-year-old boy previously choked another teacher and broke the cellphone of Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner two days before the shooting, according to a notice of claim by Zwerner's attorney.
The jury deliberated for about five hours over two days before convicting Zakwan J. Tyler — who was 16 at the time of the crime — in the slaying of Raegan Sharnae Chisley outside a Buckroe Beach home.