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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.
The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press obtained a recently unsealed 31-page transcript of the 2021 hearing. The transcript for the first time publicly provides details about the incidents logged in the officer's personnel record and the arguments made about how that should factor into a bond determination.
A Circuit Court judge on Friday ordered another mental health evaluation for Cory Jamar Bigsby Jr. on whether he's competent to stand trial on child neglect charges. His 4-year-old son, Codi Bigsby, was reported missing nearly a year ago.
Richneck Elementary School teacher Abigail Zwerner’s attorney announced Wednesday morning she intends to file a lawsuit against the Newport News school division after school administrators “failed to act” before Zwerner was shot by her 6-year-old student.
A federal search warrant was issued — and executed Thursday — for one family member’s home in Newport News, and the boy's mother consented to a search of another apartment where she’s now living. It was unclear what authorities were looking for, or what they recovered.
“The week of the shooting was the first week when we were not in class with him,” the family’s statement said. “We will regret our absence on this day for the rest of our lives.”
Nosuk Pak Kim was sentenced to four years in prison last week for evading taxes owed by her husband’s Hampton importing business. She was ordered to pay $869,000 in back taxes to the IRS — as she agreed to do in a plea agreement — and fined her $200,000.
A man wanted in the slaying of his wife on Christmas Day was shot to death Wednesday morning in Hampton, and a sheriff's deputy was wounded in a shootout.
The first-grade teacher, Abigail Zwerner, 25, was in the middle of class just before 2 p.m. when the student suddenly pointed the gun at her and fired one round, Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said at a news conference Monday.