HAMPTON — When police found Thomas Needam III dead on his living room floor in 2010, his nine-year-old son was kneeling on the floor with his hands over his ears in a nearby room.

NORFOLK The city's five-year capital plan includes enough money to add new or rebuilt primary schools in the Campostella and Broad Creek areas, and cover planning costs for construction or renovation of Larchmont and Ocean View elementaries.

 A Cub Scout leader has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a member of his den in the Newport News church where the suspect worked.

VIRGINIA BEACH The new Interstate 264 ramps at London Bridge Road will open Wednesday. The ramps will be open in time for morning rush hour, a Virginia Department of Transportation news release says. The ramps are expected to help alleviate traffic congestion on the Lynnhaven Parkway exit and keep traffic from stopping on the highway during prak travel times.

At 7:55 a.m., the Virginia Department of Transportation was reporting the following traffic issues: Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel A crash in the eastbound lanes at the tunnel was causing delays.    James River and Coleman bridges No lifts are scheduled.

DURHAM, N.C.  A reminder of North Carolina's racially segregated past is now on permanent display at North Carolina Central University. A dedication ceremony was held Sunday at the school for the exhibit featuring a section of lunch counter from the Woolworth store in Durham where black students staged a civil rights sit-in 52 years ago this month.

By Martha Waggoner  FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.  Prosecutors will begin presenting their case in the first evidentiary hearing involving North Carolina's Racial Justice Act. Prosecutors are scheduled to begin presenting their case this morning in a Cumberland County courtroom. Marcus Robinson is a black man serving a death sentence for killing a white teenager in 1991.

VIRGINIA BEACH The Doritos ad featuring Huff, the Virginia Beach Great Dane, was ranked as the most popular commercial during the Super Bowl and has won creator Jonathan Friedman a $1 million prize.  "How can we thank a community for supporting us like this? Wow!," wrote Huff's owner, Betsy DiJulio in an email this morning to a Virginian-Pilot editor.

CHARLOTTESVILLE The trial of a University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend is set to begin. Jury selection is scheduled to start Monday in the trial of George Huguely V. The 24-year-old from Chevy Chase, Md., faces first-degree murder and several other charges in Charlottesville Circuit Court.

PORTSMOUTH One person suffered minor burns in a fire that destroyed a home in the Sterling Point neighborhood overnight. The fire was reported about 12:30 a.m. in the 2800 block of Acres Road, emergency dispatchers said. When firefighters arrived, they found heavy flames at the home and had the blaze under control in about an hour, WVEC-TV was reporting this morning.