Updated: 3:16 PM Apartments housing more than 100 people were evacuated because of flooding in Newport News and Hampton.

Updated: 4:16 PM The Virginia Defense Force is looking to expand its role the next time a big storm hits the state.

Posted: 3:23 PM With Virginia's coastal areas especially susceptible to climate change, a University of Virginia institute is assisting residents and decision-makers with long-range planning.

Posted: 3:21 PM Police in Virginia Beach say a man who was hit over the head with a bottle in a nightclub has died.

Updated: 3:21 PM A tornado touched down on Virginia's Eastern Shore, damaging a mobile home and injuring one person.

Updated: 7:16 PM Officials are trying to figure out what caused water levels to drop twice in a four-day span along the Shenandoah River's North Fork.

Posted: 3:21 PM A Norfolk man charged with fatally shooting another man at a pharmacy says he was picking up medicine when the victim cut in front of him.

Posted: 4:12 PM Virginia high school students are learning more about personal finance and economics thanks to two digital textbooks developed by the state Department of Education.

Posted: 4:09 PM The Virginia Department of Health is set to review its approach to addressing efforts to keep the state's smallest children alive until their first birthdays.

Posted: 4:29 PM The government is forecasting lower yields for some Virginia crops this year. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says the state's winter wheat yield is forecast at 65 bushels per acre compared to 71 bushels a year ago.

Posted: 4:11 PM Gabby Douglas, the gold-medal-winning gymnast, has a giant mural painted in her honor in Virginia Beach.

Posted: 12:19 PM Developers want to convert the former Massey Energy Co. headquarters in downtown Richmond into high-end apartments.

Updated: 12:17 PM The annual Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax is aiming to break the Guinness World Record for largest mandolin ensemble.

Posted: 12:11 PM A new research project at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest retreat is expected to offer insight into how the Wing of Offices was used.

Posted: 12:09 PM Stafford Circuit Court Judge Sarah Deneke denied a motion Monday from attorneys for Ashleigh Nicole Dye to present new evidence in hopes of getting a lesser sentence.

Posted: 12:07 PM Navy Federal Credit Union is planning to expand its member service operation in Frederick County, creating 400 jobs.

Updated: 7:56 PM The University of Virginia Board of Visitors is under fire again for spending over $125,000 last year.

Posted: 3:55 PM On Monday's 85th anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized state-mandated sterilizations of "undesirables," a Virginia lawmaker is proposing the state offer token reparations to victims still living.

Posted: 3:53 PM Court records show that the mother of Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas filed for bankruptcy earlier this year in Virginia.

Posted: 3:49 PM Police are investigating a shooting at an outside gathering in Dinwiddie County that left one man dead and three others wounded.

Posted: 4:39 PM A search warrant says the Roanoke man charged in connection with a pipe bomb explosion in Blacksburg was feuding with his girlfriend's male houseguest.

Posted: 10:07 AM The Virginia Department of Agriculture says drought conditions have hit parts of the state harder than others. Corn, tobacco, and hay are the hardest-hit crops, while soybeans, peanuts, cotton, peaches, apples and grapes generally have fared better.

Updated: 11:40 AM Sales of tobacco to minors in the U.S. reached an all-time low in 2011 under a federal-state inspection program intended to curb underage tobacco smoking.

Updated: 10:42 AM A suburban Richmond youth figure skating coach will spend three and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

Posted: 10:35 AM A Roanoke man faces charges in connection with a pipe bomb explosion in Blacksburg. Media outlets report that Blacksburg police charged 23-year-old Derick Gregory Wilson on Wednesday with the manufacture, possession, use of fire bombs or explosive materials.