CHESAPEAKE Under an agreement with the city, first approved in 2008 and renewed several times since, the Battlefield Golf Club at Centerville was required to post signs alerting golfers that the course was built on a bed of fly ash. The powdery substance contains hazardous heavy metals.

CHESAPEAKE More than four years into a legal battle over a Chesapeake golf course built on a bed of fly ash, almost nothing has been resolved.

SUFFOLK A small, single-engine experimental plane crashed in a field Saturday, killing the pilot and a passenger. The crash occurred about a third of a mile west of a runway at Suffolk Executive Airport, roughly three miles southwest of the city’s downtown.

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NEWPORT NEWS Hours after escaping police custody, Phillip Alonza Robinson Jr. was once again apprehended after a search of a Newport News home.

VIRGINA BEACH James Utterback hasn’t introduced himself to the 800 state employees he’ll oversee as Hampton Roads’ new highway administrator – he doesn’t start until May 15 – but he has helped deliver a sizable project in the region.

Police and state records shed light on a March accident at Craft Machine Works, where Aleksandr L. "Sasha" Berelovich, a repair mechanic, was crushed to death.    

NORFOLK A historic downtown building that for years has been dogged by code violations and safety concerns has been sold to an owner who is promising to restore it.

Police and state records shed light on a March accident at Craft Machine Works, where Aleksandr L. "Sasha" Berelovich, a repair mechanic was crushed to death.