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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia woman is celebrating the start of 2020 with the title of centenarian.

Ethel Brown was born on Jan. 1, 1920, in Lee County, Virginia. Her family has been in the state since 1740.

Over her lifetime, she has lived and traveled to many places, but on Wednesday, she was in Virginia Beach with her family.

“I feel wonderful and I’m happy. I stay happy – that’s one thing that has helped me along, I guess,” Brown told WTKR.

Brown says having a big family has also helped her…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — You may have heard of it but do you really know about the Back Bay?

“Back Bay is really part of the Currituck and Albemarle-Pamlico Sounds to the south,” says Jared Brandwein, executive director of the Bay Bay Restoration Foundation. “It’s a freshwater watershed.”

The Back Bay Restoration Foundation is a 33-year-old nonprofit working to rehabilitate and advocate for the watershed. 

“A lot of biologists determine the health of the bay by what’s called ‘submerged aquatic vegetation’… In the late ’70s, biologists…

Mourners at a memorial service for popular radio presenter Malcolm Taylor heard how “the airwaves will never be the same again”.

Scores of well-wishers joined friends, family and colleagues to pay tribute to Taylor, host of Dubai Eye’s Business Breakfast, at a service in the Holy Trinity Church in Oud Metha on Wednesday morning.

The broadcaster was a mainstay of the region’s airwaves since moving to Dubai in 1998, where he built a loyal and devoted following. He died last week, at the age of 66, after a heart attack.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A former housekeeper at a hotel in Virginia Beach has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for stealing a guest’s $35,000 diamond ring.

Prosecutors say 28-year-old Chrystal Monique Gregory pleaded guilty to grand larceny in August.

She used an employee key to break into an Ohio couple’s suite at The Cavalier hotel and take a 2¼-carat diamond engagement ring.

An appraiser said the ring featured a platinum and gold band and diamonds encrusted along the…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — After more than 20 years in service to this country, one Navy SEAL is getting thanked in a huge way.

Navy Lieutenant Patrick Ferguson is being gifted a brand new home, free of charge! And it’s all thanks to the teamwork of Building Homes for Heroes, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and SAIC. 

Ferguson enlisted in the military in 1991 and ended up joining the prestigious Navy SEALs. 

Throughout his more than 20 years in dedicated service, he sustained many injuries that stemmed from his training operations and deployments. He…

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On Capitol Hill, Democrats are expected to roll out two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump today, centered around his alleged abuse of power and obstructing Congress. 

In D.C., Trump is slated to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the White House.

Reps. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Elaine Luria (D-VA) sent a letter to acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney imploring him to deny press access to TruNews, after its founder and host Rick Wiles denigrated Jews and repeated antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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— The Texas filing deadline has come and gone. The Senate race featured no last minute surprises, while the stage is set for more than a half-dozen battleground House races.

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“It’s the closure that has never happened,” Ed Antle said about waiting on the trial. “It’s something that we know we have to go through and it just, you know, has been delayed. And so, that’s upsetting. And it’s upsetting to us that … no one has, in the situation, has taken responsibility. And it’s upsetting that it takes so long to hold the hit-and-run driver accountable.”

President Trump and Republicans are quietly working closely and productively on legislation with Democrats even as the impeachment storm rages and the two sides hurl searing invective at each other.

“He has more relationships than anybody would care to confess with Democrats,” a source knowledgeable about Trump’s activities told the Washington Examiner, describing the president as “a very willing partner” when it comes to negotiating his priorities with Congress.

On issues where Democrats and Republicans share a common interest, they are finding…

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9TH
On Monday, the House will meet at 12:00 p.m. for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — During the 10th Annual Gold Star Family Evening held by Honor and Remember, families came together to honor and remember their fallen Military Heroes.

On Saturday, the largest number of Gold Star Families attended the annual event at the Founder’s Inn and Spa in Virginia Beach.

All of them had something in common: they’ve felt the pain of losing a loved one who served this country, but will never come back home for the holidays.

George Lutz, the founder of Honor and Remember, said this time of year is especially…