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Jessica Nolte covers the cities of Newport News and Hampton. She got her start at the paper as a breaking news reporter in 2018. In her spare time, the VCU graduate enjoys lifting weights and walking her Australian Shepherd.
Hampton University President William R. Harvey will retire from the school June 30 after graduating nearly 40,000 students in his tenure and growing the school's endowment from $29 million to $400 million.
Benny Cantiere's opened this month in downtown Newport News. It's the first of three restaurants slated to open this summer as part of a "restaurant row" on 23rd Street.
The city treasurer’s office doesn’t usually send bills to homeowners who have a mortgage company that maintains an escrow account to pay their real estate taxes and stormwater fees, but a system error led to the bills being mailed by accident.
Circuit Court Judge William R. “Richard” Savage III denied Cory Bigsby's request for bond in April, saying there was “probable cause to believe that the defendant is a flight risk.”
Johns Hopkins University’s Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse announced Thursday that Allyn Walker would be joining the center as a postdoctoral fellow to work on research and new projects to develop a “comprehensive public health approach to addressing child sexual abuse and effective prevention programs.”
The budget provides a real estate tax rate reduction of 6 cents per hundred dollars of assessed value — from $1.24 to $1.18. It’s the largest reduction any city in the region has seen this year.
The city’s approved $1.04 billion operating budget includes a 5% general wage increase for city employees and funding to help the city work on raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour in upcoming years.