Water--not smoke--signaled trouble at a home for pregnant women in crisis in downtown Orange on Monday morning. There was so much water on Caroline Street that a passerby suspected a water main break and alerted the town.

Two men are dead after a speedboat accident on the Potomac River, authorities said. The Maryland Natural Resources Police identified the victims as James Melley, 49 and Garth Tagge, 61.

Homeowner and auto insurers are dealing with thousands of claims in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. And some policyholders are discovering — or rediscovering — a hard truth: Standard homeowners’ policies typically do not cover flood damage, that is, damage from rising water.

The Brenham, Texas-based company is once again worried about potential listeria contamination. Blue Bell said Wednesday that it is recalling packages of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.

HEI Hotels & Resorts provided a list of hotels—20 hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbia—that suffered a “security incident,” in which payment card data of customers may have been affected. “HEI was recently alerted to a potential security incident by its card processor,” HEI said in a statement released Friday.

Crews in Franklin worked to clean up after several cars on a CSX train derailed at International Paper in Isle of Wight on Tuesday. No one was injured.

A Ferrari 458 Speciale has been damaged after a woman driving a Mercedes-Benz 380SL Roadster reversed into the prized Italian exotic.

A 47-year-old woman was seriously injured after falling roughly 40-feet from a fair ride at the Frederick County Fairgrounds in Virginia on Monday, July 25, according to police.

Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.

After a long day, it can be nice to come home and grab a frozen meal from the fridge for a quick and easy dinner. If you’ve been stocking up on P.F. Chang’s frozen meals, you might want to double-check they aren’t included in a recently expanded recall of more than 195,000 pounds of frozen dinner product that may contain metal fragments.

Two workers with a highway maintenance crew were struck and killed by a dump truck while working on Route 11 in Augusta County on Tuesday. The two workers, Felimon V. Aizpuro II, 38, of Staunton, Va., and Debbie S. Huffman, 50, of Port Republic, Va., both died at the scene, according to the Virginia State Police.

The Roanoke City Fire Department says a lightning strike caused a house fire Tuesday afternoon. One Roanoke firefighter also had to be hospitalized after falling down an elevator shaft while responding to the fire.

Nearly two months after CRF Frozen Foods set off a massive recall of vegetables thought to be contaminated with listeria and linked to at least two deaths and eight illnesses, a second frozen vegetable supplier — National Frozen Food Corp. — has initiated a separate recall over listeria concerns, and many of the recalled products are from the nation’s largest retailers.

A powerful line of storms that triggered tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings across Central Virginia Thursday night downed trees and knocked out power to more than 150,000.