NBC News poll: 57% of voters say investigations into former President Donald Trump should continue
A clear majority of American voters believe that the various investigations into alleged wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump should continue, according to a national NBC News poll conducted after the FBI searched Trumpโs Florida home and recovered documents marked as โtop secretโ earlier this month.
Virginia wind farm job claims questioned by state regulators
As Virginia-based Dominion Energy seeks to build what it calls the countryโs largest offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean, the company and its supporters have touted the economic development opportunities expected to accompany the 176-turbine project.
State police to probe deadly Virginia Beach police shooting
Aubrey "Japharii" Jones, left, walks on the sidewalk on Atlantic Ave. Saturday March 27, 2021 in Virginia Beach, Va.. Overnight shootings near the Atlantic oceanfront in Virginia Beach left two people dead and eight wounded in a scene described by authorities on Saturday as very chaotic. Williams, who is also a Virginia Beach native, declined to comment further through a representative. โWe need far better accountability and transparency, and the families of those killed by police, in Virginia Beach and across this country, deserve answers,โ Jones said Sunday. Lynch's shooting was one of three separate shooting incidents that police said occurred within minutes of each other along Virginia Beach's oceanfront. Also killed in a separate shooting nearby that night was Deshayla E. Harris, 28, of Norfolk.
Police: 2 dead in Virginia Beach oceanfront shootings
Virginia Beach police work the scene of a shooting the night before on Saturday, March 27, 2021 in Virginia Beach, Va. A pair of overnight fatal shootings along the beachfront in Virginia Beach wounded several people in a scene described by authorities on Saturday as โvery chaotic.โ (AP Photo/John C. Clark)VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. โ Overnight shootings along the beachfront in Virginia Beach left two people dead and eight wounded in a scene described by authorities on Saturday as โvery chaotic.โIn a statement, the Virginia Beach Police Department said the first shooting occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, when police who were patrolling the area heard gunfire. While officers were investigating the shootings, shots were fired nearby, said Police Chief Paul Neudigate. Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital spokesman Andrew Helquist said four people treated for gunshot wounds were in stable condition on Saturday, while four others had been released from the hospital. AdTwo full blocks that mostly made up a city owned parking lot remained blocked off by police tape on Saturday. And then there was a wreck.โKevin Robertson, who lives a few houses away from the parking lot, said he was on his porch when the shooting began.
Armed men arrested near Philadelphia vote counting location
Police said Friday they arrested two men Thursday for not having permits to carry firearms near the center. Police said the men acknowledged that the Hummer spotted by officers near the center was was their vehicle. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)PHILADELPHIA โ Two men armed with loaded handguns were arrested Thursday near the Philadelphia convention center where an ongoing vote count could decide the presidential election, police said. Officers stopped the men about a block from the vehicle, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said. A woman with the men was not arrested, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said.
Virus upends tourism marketing, sparks idea of 'safecations'
The pandemic not only upended the tourism industry, but how states, cities and attractions market themselves as summer travel destinations. Virginias tourism office spent a year working on a summer marketing campaign only to halt it four days after its launch in March. That decline has tourism officials scrambling to salvage what they can. We see in the research right now that people need to be reassured about whats open and what's closed.Beyond attracting visitors, tourism officials are also promoting how their cities and states will keep visitors safe. North Dakotas tourism office targeted a similar message to in-state residents when the virus hit, said Sara Otte-Coleman, the state's director of tourism and marketing.
A year later, motive of Virginia mass shooting still unclear
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. The rampage at a Virginia Beach city government building was the latest in a string of high-profile mass shootings nationwide, between the high school killings in Parkland, Florida, and the Walmart massacre in El Paso, Texas. Virginia Beach Vice Mayor James Wood said he cant begin to understand the grief of the victims families, but investigators found nothing pointing to that. That has angered Nixon and others, who say they will be looking to the findings of a state commission being formed to examine the shooting. Among the five mass shootings with over 10 dead in 2018 and 2019, most became part of larger narratives involving national and emotional issues. Borato said that even if the eyes of the nation are elsewhere, in Virginia Beach people remember.