VIRGINIA BEACH A Virginia Beach-based political advocacy organization has sued a California radio station for defamation, saying a broadcast wrongly linked the group to a bombing at a Florida mosque.

NEWPORT NEWS A robbery at a credit union across from Christopher Newport University this morning prompted school officials to send out a campus alert to students. The alert instructed students on campus to lock themselves inside an interior room, barricade the door and draw the blinds. Students who were…

RALEIGH, N.C.nbsp; The man who has led the North Carolina Symphony for the past 11 years says he's leaving to head the Van Cliburn Foundation in Texas and its world-famous piano competition. The News amp; Observer of Raleigh reported that 42-year-old David Chambless Worters will step down Nov. 15 as…

SAVANNAH, Ga.nbsp; The American Red Cross in Savannah is sending four volunteers and two emergency response vehicles to North Carolina to assist in case Hurricane Earl causes trouble. The volunteers will first head to Raleigh, N.C., then get instructions from there. Earl has been expected to reach the…

Category 3 strength stormbr/br/Experts are closely monitoring powerful Hurricane Earl as it steadily churns towards the East Coast. Earl is currently a Category 3 hurricane and the first major one of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season.

Hope was beginning to fade last week that Michele McBeth could save her Bayview home from foreclosure. The Norfolk elementary school teacher had been working for weeks with a foreclosure-prevention counselor, and spent hours going through financial documents, filling out paperwork and pleading with her…

CHESAPEAKE Chesapeake police and law enforcement officers in North Carolina will be stopping driversnbsp;today on U.S. 17 at the state line.nbsp; The annual enforcement Border to Border checkpoint is part of the multistate Checkpoint Strikeforce safety campaign, according to a news release from Chesapeake…