#8212; For Matoaka Elementary Student Katie Allen Williamsburg-James City County School Board's proposed redistricting plan is a lot like bad farming.

Newsome Park Elementary School was on lockdown Thursday after reports of gunshots being fired near the school, according to police.

Bethel College, along with Bethel Temple Church, will be collecting toiletry items for the millions of women affected by the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. The campaign is titled The WIN (Women in Need) Project.

Police are asking for the public's help in seeking a man who robbed a Country Inn Suites, a hotel at 1069 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., on March 3 at 7:19 p.m. Surveillance video shows the man walking behind the counter, threatening the clerk, flashing a gun and demanding money. The clerk tells him the business has no cash and he walks out.

Police in Newport News are warning of a suspected phone scam in which people receive recorded messages stating that their ATM cards have been compromised.