A crash inside the tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel closed the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 for a while on Friday evening.

Traffic on I-64 east heading from the Peninsula to South Hampton Roads was detoured onto Interstate 664 south, said Lauren Hansen, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Transportation.

HAMPTON Almost 150 years after Jefferson Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe, devoted supporters of Confederate history are speaking out to ensure his stay is remembered and preserved.

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Police said an 84-year-old woman who was reporting missing after she had not been seen since Tuesday evening has returned home.

Flossie Bowers, of the 2500 block of Kecoughtan Road, returned home last night, police wrote in a news release.

HAMPTON Officials at Fort Monroe say experts have unearthed an 11-foot-long cannon from the 1860s as part of a four-month munitions probe.

The probe by a team of environmental and unexploded ordnance experts is in preparation for Fort Monroe's closure in September 2011.

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Police are asking for the public’s help locating an 84-year-old woman who has a medical condition and needs medication.

HAMPTON Sheriff B.J. Roberts will keep his position despite challenges from two independent candidates. Roberts, a Democrat, won with 53.22 percent of the votes against James E. “Jim” Adams Jr. and Curtis C. Cooper.

Republican Thomas D. "Tom" Gear has won re-election to his seat in the 91st House District, according to the Associated Press. He defeated Democrat Samuel L. “Sam” Eure Jr. and independent candidate Gordon C. Helsel Jr. The district includes Hampton, Poquoson and York County.

Two men being sought on warrants charging them in connection with an Oct. 26 killing on Grimes Road.

Micah Emmanuel Boyd, 26, of Lake Erie Court, was arrested on Halloween and charged with murder, using a gun during a felony and possession of a gun by a convicted felon, police wrote in a news release.

RICHMOND Two retired NASA research pilots are being inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame at the Virginia Aviation Museum in Richmond.

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Police have charged a second man in connection with the shooting of an employee outside the Hooters in the 1800 block of W. Mercury Blvd.

Ryan Andre Melvin, 21, was charged with one count of maiming, according to a police news release. Melvin lives n the 200 block of Sesco Drive.