Congressman Donald McEachin has sponsored a bill to get the Great Dismal Swamp recognized as a National Heritage Area, which would bring in money for preservation and education. Talked to McEachin, the descendant of a man who bought his freedom from slavery - three times, park experts, etc.

 Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.

Inside water tanks at a laboratory along the York River, thousands of baby lobsters are developing — tiny black eggs stored safely under their mothers’ tails.

The crustacean’s gestation is akin to a human’s, lasting at least eight or nine months before the eggs hatch. Until they do, they’ll be carefully watched by scientists at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

A group of researchers there recently began one of the longest-running studies of how ocean warming and acidification — both symptoms of climate change — could impact a lobster’s development early in life.

Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.

“Virginia’' does not appear in the index of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” the 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning book that showed how evictions drive poor people deeper into poverty.

Neither do Richmond, Hampton, Norfolk, Newport News or Chesapeake.

More than two years later in April 2018, Evicted’s author, sociologist and professor Matthew Desmond, launched Eviction Lab. Desmond and other Princeton University researchers tapped 17 years’ worth of court data — 83 million records — to see how often landlords around the country sued to try to evict their tenants and how often they won in court.

  Read more in this Sunday's Main News section.

• Year in review: Hampton Roads cultural highlights - from crisis to tragedy, to new ways to connect, survive, thrive. Read more in the Sunday Break section.

• That’s what tweets are for.

  Dionne Warwick, musical icon-turned-Twitter extraordinaire, and one of her viral tweets will get a new platform: a billboard in Bryant Park, starting Monday.

   Read more in The Sunday Break section.

• We went without a lot in the sports world in Hampton Roads during 2020.

  No Norfolk Tides, no Norfolk Admirals. Old Dominion football? Gone. Same for most other ODU, William & Mary, Norfolk State and Hampton University sports.

  But that doesn’t mean there weren’t good sports stories to tell during this year of the unfathomable.

   Read more in the Sunday Sports section.