Conviction brings justice to family in brutal Hampton slaying
Nearly two years after his murder, Tommy Alley's family finally got justice last week. A jury found 46-year-old Darren Johnson guilty of first-degree murder and related charges in the brutal killing of...
View ArticleNewport News double homicide trial slated to begin Tuesday
NEWPORT NEWS — A murder trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday for a Hampton man charged with killing two teens in 2008. Floyd Taybron, 21, is charged with killing Barry Eugene Richardson, 16, and...
View ArticleHampton police search for second man charged in December homicide
HAMPTON— Police are searching for a second man who is charged in connection with the Dec. 1 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old Hampton man, a police spokesman said. Tyreek Jamal Braxton, 21, of Ransome...
View ArticleHampton police arrest man in Hampton homicide
HAMPTON— A man wanted in connection to the shooting death of a 22-year-old Newport News man was arrested Monday night in Norfolk, police said. Jerrell Marquise Speller, 23,...
View ArticleHampton grand jury indicts men in Shell Road homicide
HAMPTON — Two men were indicted by a circuit court grand jury this week in the shooting death of a 29-year-old man, according to the Hampton Circuit Court clerk's office. Zachary Lamont Batts, of...
View ArticleHampton judge backed for appeals court
Two local members of the Virginia Court of Appeals — Chief Judge Walter S. Felton Jr. of James City and Robert P. Frank of Newport News — are stepping aside at year's end. Felton, who's been on the...
View ArticleIn Newport News, Hampton homicide cases resolutions for some, but not for all
No one was convicted for shooting Travis Lamont Jones to death. The man who police say shot and dumped Jones' body in a parking lot in 2010 is behind bars — but not for his slaying. Hampton...
View ArticleMan convicted in 1991 sues Newport News for $25 million
NEWPORT NEWS — Attorneys for a man convicted of capital murder in 1991 have filed a $25 million lawsuit against the city of Newport News and several past and present police officers — accusing them of...
View ArticleEditorial: Life cut short by gunshot
Lamonee Johnson-Chisolm might have been looking forward to a few days off school, a big Thanksgiving dinner and hanging out with friends. Perhaps he had plans to watch the Steelers-Ravens game Sunday...
View ArticleHampton men wanted in shooting arrested
HAMPTON— Two Hampton men wanted in a shooting that occurred last week in the first block Locust Avenue have been arrested, police said Friday. Tamell Hakeen Paden, 21, of the first block of Holiday...
View ArticleNewport News: 21-year-old man charged in more than 5-year-old homicide
NEWPORT NEWS— A 21-year-old Newport News man was arrested and charged Friday in connection to the shooting death of two teens in 2008. Tyrone Demetrius Batten, of 100 block Fort Worth Street in...
View Article2013 homicides on the Peninsula
HOMICIDES ON THE PENINSULA IN 2013 HAMPTON Fort Eustis Asphyxiation Yorktown (York, Virginia) Abdominal Pain Hampton Coliseum Pocahontas 1. Jan. 1 –Brayden Joseph Whalen (6 months, Hampton) died from...
View ArticleFifteen men charged during prostitution sting
NEWPORT NEWS— Police charged fifteen men during a prostitution sting Friday in the 6100 block of Jefferson Avenue. The operation was part of the police department's efforts to combat prostitution, a...
View ArticleHampton man charged in killing of two teens in Newport News
NEWPORT NEWS — A 21-year-old Hampton man appeared in Newport News Circuit Court Monday after being indicted on two counts of murder. Floyd Taybron is charged with killing teens Barry Eugene Richardson,...
View ArticlePersonnel file of former police officer accused of rape kept confidential
POQUOSON — A judge Thursday denied a request from prosecutors seeking the personnel file of a former police officer accused of multiple sexual offenses against a minor. The ruling was in response to a...
View ArticleWhat murder charges eligible for capital punishment?
When a grand jury this month indicted John Moses Ragin on three counts of capital murder in the slaying of his step-children in Newport News, prosecutors took two different routes to get there. For two...
View ArticleProsecutors drop charges in Hampton carnival slaying
HAMPTON — Prosecutors dropped first-degree murder charges Wednesday against two teenagers in a high-profile Hampton killing, saying problems with witnesses mean the case can't go forward at this time....
View ArticleIs top prosecutor a tough sell?
Why do so few people run for commonwealth's attorney? After all, the top prosecutor seat — the equivalent of a district attorney in most other states — is one of the most powerful jobs around. A chief...
View ArticleHomicides up in many localities in 2012
The Peninsula and Middle Peninsula have seen more homicides in 2012 than in the year before, according to Daily Press statistics. Through the week of Christmas, the areas had recorded 40 homicides,...
View ArticleFederal prosecutors recognized for Somali pirate case
Four federal prosecutors were recently given Attorney General Awards for their work securing convictions in several Somali pirates' cases, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office...
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