NORFOLK A man convicted of murder, robbery, and drug and weapons charges will serve 21 years for the crimes, a judge ruled Friday. Deonte L. Mayfield was convicted in the shooting death of 31-year-old Cleavonne Tynes, who was found with several gunshot wounds in the 300 block of E. Little Creek Road in June 2008. A co-defendant, Donte White, is scheduled to be sentenced in January.

NORFOLK Jamie Gallihugh makes a detour on her way to work to be sure the flowers on her daughter's grave have not been scattered by wind. Once she's at her job as a 911 operator, she dreads the calls about wrecks, can't keep herself from wondering whether some other mom would get the same notification she did - a daughter killed by a drunken driver.

CHESAPEAKE George Christian, founder of Financing Alternatives Inc., succeeded in delaying the trial in the state's case against him and his company - if only for a few days.

NEWPORT NEWS

Two people have been charged in a string of burglaries in the city that were committed over several months, beginning in March, police said.

In six of the eight cases, residents were sleeping while burglars broke into their homes and stole their property, police wrote in a news release. .

VIRGINIA BEACH The state Supreme Court reprimanded a Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court judge Thursday for violating ethical conduct standards in a 2007 case.

NORFOLK The man who clubbed her with a long-handled flashlight pulled at the wedding ring Anna Wheeler had worn for almost 50 years. The attacker hit Wheeler as she slept in her bed, waking her. Across the hall, Wheeler's 90-year-old husband, Marion, had also been bludgeoned while in his bed.

NEWPORT NEWS

A man who police say dropped off two computers at a repair store in June has been charged with possessing child pornography.

After the computers were dropped off, the store called police who seized them, according to a news release.

Forensics experts found more than 200 images of child pornography, police wrote in the release.

By Dena Potter RICHMOND Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.

For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.

PORTSMOUTH A second man has been charged in connection with the shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Portsmouth on Sept. 4, police said today.

Jerrit S. Allen, 18, of the 800 block of Lincoln St. was charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. The teen was shot about 1:15 p.m. in the 1500 block of Lansing Ave. and was treated at a hospital.

PORTSMOUTH A man with a knife robbed the Wachovia bank at 5820 High St. W. this morning.

He held the knife while demanding money from a teller at 10:38 a.m., police said, and was described as white and in his 40s. No one was reported injured.

Police asked that anyone with information call the Crime Line at 1 (888) LOCK-U-UP (562-5887).