BY CHRISTINA DUKE LAGO MAR – It wasn’t long after his first day working at Lago Mar Pizza, my family’s restaurant, that I learned that James
Category: Virginia Beach
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – Beach residents voting in either of the two state senate primaries on Tuesday will use new machines that digitally scan paper
BY JANET YARBROUGH MEYER LANDSTOWN – Malik Holman, 15, knows how tough it is being a military brat. Sometimes it’s downright difficult – and hard to
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – There are only a couple of days left for drive-through personal property assessment appeals that help many folks save on car
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – Long before he became the deputy police chief overseeing professional standards here, a young John L. Bell Jr. wrote why he
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE PUNGO – Disagreement between organizers of the Pungo Strawberry Festival and landowner Gene Hansen led to city police blocking access for festival traffic
BY JANET YARBROUGH MEYER OCEAN LAKES – It’s really difficult to find something when you can’t remember where you left it. That was the
THE INDEPENDENT NEWS CREEDS – Bethel United Methodist Church will host a special service in June to honor the firefighters and emergency medical personnel who support
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – The top prosecutor in Virginia Beach this month delivered a clear warning about ongoing scams, many of which target senior citizens, and
BY JOHN-HENRY DOUCETTE COURTHOUSE – City police Officer Preston Vaughan, a former automative mechanic who became hooked on police work after going on a ridealong in