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October 22, 2018

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New Kent football player Juan Mikel-Jones is making the most of second chance with a second heart

Sunday, Oct 21

Juan Mikel Jones of New Kent had a heart transplant in January, but was back practicing with the football team by June and is playing regularly on special teams and as a reserve on the defensive line.

Trust helps preserve history, Yorktown battlefield

Purchased for nearly $6 million in the American Battlefield Trust's second most expensive acquisition, the nearly 50-acre Yorktown tract preserves historic ground from the sieges of the Civil War and Revolution.

For the Delaware, a slam-dunk christening

The Navy christens the submarine Delaware, a Virginia-class attack sub that will be launched from Newport News Shipbuilding.

U.Va. serious Coastal contender after victory at Duke

Virginia is 5-2, 3-1 in the ACC, and likely to be favored in each of its next three games

Hampton trailer fire still under investigation; six residents displaced

A home in a Hampton trailer park was destroyed by fire early Friday morning — displacing the six residents who lived there. And investigators are still working to determine a cause of the blaze.

Pictures: Phish at Hampton Coliseum

 

Man charged in fishing trip slaying was accused of domestic abuse, immigration violation

Man who is charged with killing a man on a boat off the coast of Massachusetts in late September was released from custody by an immigration judge in Northern Virginia.