| Chad Rosenbrock was spending a beautiful day at the Oceanfront with his son and several friends last month when he decided to go for another swim. Almost immediately after diving in, he lost all feeling in his body and was unable to move. As he tossed in the water like a ragdoll, he held his breath and prayed someone would find him. Thankfully a man and woman saw him, called out for help and Rosenbrock's friends rushed in to get him. Now he's paralyzed from the chest down. Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section For years Blake Bailey, who taught at the school from 2010 through 2016, abused women who taught at and attended ODU, former and current ODU faculty and students say. Bailey was a literary star. His biography of Philip Roth was a best seller before he was accused of grooming his former middle school students for sex and raping a woman at a New York Times book critic's house. The Virginian-Pilot interviewed 15 women who were either graduate students or faculty during Baileyâs time at ODU. They chronicled his abuse of five women â including incidents of grabbing, grooming and intimidating graduate students. Six women said they told ODU administrators about Bailey accosting them or witnessing his abuse of others. They say their concerns, for a long time at least, went nowhere. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section
Norfolk and Portsmouth are tied for the lowest percentage of people vaccinated against COVID-19 in Hampton Roads, with a little less than three in 10 of their residents being fully inoculated as of the middle of this week. The low level of vaccine immunity in those cities compared to neighboring localities has beguiled some pandemic researchers, especially following federal and state pandemic aid sent to those cities this spring in the form of supplies and manpower. As mass vaccination clinics throughout Virginia shut down and demand dwindles, public health officials are shifting supplies to doctorâs offices and smaller-scale operations. That leaves local health leaders in places like Norfolk and Portsmouth looking at strategies to bring shots to the hardest-to-reach -- and hardest-to-convince -- communities. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section
When Leroy Dublin disappeared in December, he had no idea how many would notice. Dublin was a homeless man, a fixture at a corner in Ghent, a lone figure reading under a streetlight in all kinds of weather, year after year. Nearly 400 people have weighed in on Nextdoor thread, wondering what happened to him and trying to play detective. Whatâs behind such an outpouring? Read more in the Sunday Break section Ralph Clayton Anderson was proud of his meat. For his pastrami sandwich, the chef and co-owner of Claytonâs Counter Delicatessen had sliced up the pastrami himself, brined it and smoked it for hours the night before, heating it all back up over a gas burner in the parking lot of Virginia Beachâs J&K Style Grill on Monday morning. He detailed the process with self-evident joy. But his competition wasnât having it. âYou donât want his old meat!â yelled Carlton Peterson of F.O.O.L. Catering, while pressing down meatball patties onto his flat-top grill. âHe brought old meat, and Iâm out here cooking!â Meanwhile, Andersonâs sliced watermelons and house-made pickle sides were derided as fruit at a sandwich contest. Might as well be spoons at a gunfight. Peterson wasnât just being mean. On that sun-baked parking lot, shade was part of the game. On Mondays throughout the summer, popular wing-and-burger spot J&K Style Grill is playing host to a series of parking lot battles among area chefs. And alongside food presentation and taste, âtrash talkinâ is one of the categories: Talk more smack, win more points with the judges.  Read more in the Sunday Break section Hampton University track coach Maurice Pierce hasn't seen his team since March of 2020. But he'll get that chance on June 16 when athletes can report back to campus.      Read more in this Sunday's Sports section.         The first Black-owned tattoo academy in the 757 opens its doors this summer       in Portsmouth.      Greg Edwards decided to open the school adjacent to his tattoo studio, Gregâs      Tattoos, to help prevent others from what he experienced when he entered the       industry six years ago.      âI initially tried to get an apprenticeship with a local artist, but found that it           wasnât welcoming,â Edwards said.       Read more in this Sunday's Work & Money section.
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