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A Norfolk police officer was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital after he was hit by a car, and another officer shot someone said to be part of an attempt to pass a bad check at a local bank. Norfolk police got a call at about 2:40 p.m. about...

JAMES CITY -Two cars racing in the upper county Saturday afternoon led to an accident in which the driver of one of the cars was unknowingly dragged about four miles. Two other people were hospitalized. According to Maj. Steve Rubino, James City...

A major vehicle accident Saturday in James City County, attributed to racing on a street, caused three people to be hospitalized. It also caused the closure of westbound Richmond Road in the 8900 block for several hours in order to investigate. According...

Theresa W. Fossum has launched the National Veterinary Cancer Registry, a national database for pets diagnosed with cancer. Its mission is to facilitate and promote medical treatments that lead to advances and eventual cures for cancer in pets and in...

What's the value of a major joint replacement? Is it $61,720? That's what Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News billed, on average. Is it $32,944? That's what Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk charged. Is it somewhere between $11,...

A 57-year-old man was taken to a hospital with burns after trying to fight a fire in a camper trailer on Thursday in Whaleyville. The fire was reported shortly before 5:25 p.m. in the 300 block of Great Fork Road, according to a city news release. The...

A police officer needed to be taken to a hospital after being involved in a crash Thursday night. The crash happened a few minutes after 8 p.m., on Carolina Road near Fayette Street, a city news release said. A witness said a female driver ran a red...

For most women, the risk of developing breast cancer over a lifetime is 12 percent. For women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, that risk multiplies to close to 87 percent. In choosing a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy, Hollywood star Angelina...

On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services landed a bombshell on the public with its release of FY 2011 numbers that revealed how much 3,000 hospitals around the country charged Medicare for the 100 most common in-patient procedures....

Norfolk police have arrested and charged a man they say stole an ambulance and crashed into several vehicles in the Ghent section of the city. Lamont Antonio Davis, 25, of the 900 block of Saint Julian Avenue, is charged with driving under the...

One person died, and two others were injured in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 460 near Ennis Mill Road on Tuesday. Leonard Benjamin Johnston Jr., was driving west when he ran off the road and hit a parked work truck, police said. Johnston was not...

A man jumped into an ambulance and crashed into several other vehicles late Tuesday, police said. The private medical transport vehicle was parked in front of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital when the man jumped in and drove off, police said in a news...