The owner of a Newport News restaurant was charged Friday with stabbing one of his cooks after the two men got into an argument, according to police.

VIRGINIA BEACH Cassie Thurston lounged on Chic's Beach, sipping an energy drink Friday afternoon and keeping a close watch on her 4-year-old daughter, Cassidy, playing nearby, not far from a scattering of orange and white cigarette butts abandoned in the sand. "She's always picking them up," Thurston said of the butts. "She's a little girl. She doesn't know."

A marijuana plant and more than two pounds of the drug were seized Thursday from a James City County home, police said.

A 45-year-old Hampton man charged with murder is in Hampton City Jail after being extradited from Georgia, police said.

The York County School Board will meet Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m. at York Hall, 301 Main St.

HAMPTON –A 24-year-old Hampton man shot several times Thursday night is in stable condition at a local hospital, police said Friday.

Defective equipment is causing traffic delays and headaches to drivers traveling on Interstate 64 westbound at the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, Virginia Department of Transportation officials said.

At 8 a.m., the Virginia Department of Transportation was reporting the following traffic issues: Berkley Bridge The westbound lanes will be closed from 5:30 to 10:30 a.m. Sunday for maintenance work. Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Two left westbound lanes are blocked by a disabled vehicle on the Hampton River bridge. Traffic was backed up past Bay Avenue in Norfolk.

A disabled work truck has caused the temporary closure of two lanes on Interstate 64 westbound near the Hampton River Bridge, Virginia Department of Transportation officials said. Traffic is currently backed up to Mallory Street. It is also impacting traffic at the HRBT.

MIDLOTHIAN Virginia State Police and the families of fallen troopers will gather in suburban Richmond to remember those who died in the line of duty. The memorial scheduled today will pay special recognition to Trooper Adam M. Bowen. He died in June 2011 while responding to a call to assist with a criminal investigation in King George County.