Robert Tata was a two-sport star athlete at the University of Virginia and a successful high school football coach who won more than 100 games in stops at Norview and Granby in Norfolk.

Before Blake Bailey released an acclaimed biography of Philip Roth and before his world came crashing down over allegations of rape and sexual misconduct, he taught at Old Dominion University.

Eastern Virginia Medical School will pay a PR firm that has ties to a blog publicizing negative stories about its hospital partner Sentara Healthcare close to half a million dollars.

Voters in Hampton Roads and across Virginia selected the Democratic candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

Singer Pharrell Williams’ nonprofit plans to open a group of small private schools for students from low-income families, starting in Norfolk.

In the three years since the only grocery store in Norfolk’s Berkley neighborhood closed, Shannel Lundy said neighbors have stepped up for each other.

Decades before his death, Randolph C. Snead Sr. sat inside the 20-by-30-foot Cornland School learning math and other subjects.

Virginia Tech freshman football player Isimemen Etute was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Wednesday in connection with the death of a Blacksburg resident.

The Wright brothers soared over Outer Banks dunes for about a minute in 1903 and, within five years, built the world’s first military airplane that could travel 125 miles.

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