More than 35,000 pounds of raw ground beef sold at Kroger stores are being recalled because they may be contaminated with foreign objects including hard plastic.

The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its “cone of uncertainty” based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.

The National Weather Service said late Monday night that a tornado with estimated top wind speeds of 130 mph hit Lynchburg and the neighboring counties of Campbell and Amherst on Sunday evening.

Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.

Federal authorities say an Eastern Shore man went on a multi-state ATM theft spree, stealing cars and crashing into convenience stores, then tying ropes or chains to the cash machines and dragging them out.

Firefighters have extinguished a two-alarm fire that caused heavy damage to two homes in the Pecan Gardens area of Virginia Beach.

If his 4-year-old son, Anthony, had been sleeping in his bedroom Thursday night, he wouldn’t be alive today, Stafford resident Donnie Merrix said.

Businesses blocked doors with sandbags and officials warned residents of waterfront homes to be ready to evacuate as the northeastern United States braced for a powerful storm on Friday that threatened to flood coasts from Maine to North Carolina.

A women died after she was hit by an eastbound Amtrak train near the Williamsburg Premium Outlets in the 5700 block of Richmond Road, according to officials from James City County.

A train carrying Republican lawmakers to their retreat in West Virginia collided with what appeared to be a garbage truck on Wednesday.

For years, one small disaster after another followed Verdon Taylor. He would buy a used car, own it for a while, and it would catch fire. He would move into a rental property and soon his belongings would go up in flames.

Almost two dozen cars were stolen this wintry month while left running unattended or with keys inside, Norfolk police said.
Department officials are urging people not to leave their cars alone and running in attempts to warm them up.

As snow moves through the area Wednesday, Virginia State Police troopers have responded to 268 crashes and 126 disabled vehicles. This includes a snow plow that overturned on the median of Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie.

A Florida man was convicted by a federal jury in Richmond on Wednesday in a 15-year insurance fraud scheme involving at least 27 fires in Richmond, Henrico County and Florida. Four co-defendants earlier pleaded guilty in the case.

A judge Friday denied a bond request from a former police officer accused of, among other things, plotting to burn down the Stafford County Public Safety Building and attempting to burn the residence of her child’s father in Fairfax County.