Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Matthew Harvey went to pick up his son at a Newport News bus stop on the afternoon of Sept. 30. But then he saw his son walking off the bus naked from the waist down.

John Michael Garza, 37, and Arley Vaughn Nemo III, 43, are accused of tunneling their way out of their cell at a Newport News Jail Annex on 25th Street, using primitive tools made with “a toothbrush and a metal object.”

They’re called vape shops, smoke shacks and tobacco stores. And they’re increasingly sprouting up in shopping plazas and storefronts throughout Hampton Roads. But while consumer demand appears to support the proliferation of these shops, their role in the long-awaited retail marijuana market seems hazy at best.

The family of a Newport News man who was shot and killed by police in 2019 have agreed to settle a pending wrongful death claim against two police officers.

A 28-year-old Newport News was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of a man during a bar fight last summer, then immediately sentenced to 16 years behind bars.

The attorneys, from the Virginia Beach law firm Pender & Coward, cite the “unfortunate reality” that teaching in the United States — even for first-grade teachers like Abigail Zwerner — isn’t without its dangers.

A man shot by Gloucester sheriff’s deputies last month actually died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Gloucester Sheriff Darrell Warren said.

Zakwan J. Tyler — who was 16 at the time — shot 20-year-old Raegan Sharnae Chisley in the chest during a fight involving his cousin and his mother in the Buckroe area of Hampton. The families' grief was palpable during the sentencing hearing in Hampton Circuit Court.

An arrangement in which a 6-year-old boy's relatives stayed in school with him was scrapped only days before he shot his teacher on Jan. 6.