The only five streets in Suffolk still closed to the public because of the April 28 tornado will reopen Saturday morning.

They are in the Burnetts Mill subdivision, which was one of the areas where houses and buildings were destroyed when a tornado touched down in Suffolk.

SUFFOLK WTKR NewsChannel 3 is dropping its lawsuit against the city for the restrictions placed on the media following last week's tornado.

SUFFOLK The Burnetts Mill neighborhood has been reopened to the public and the curfew has been lifted in that area, with some exceptions. Access to Kristen Lane, White Hall Arch, Eagle Point Crescent, Toddsbury Court and Elmington Way is restricted to owners and contractors, and the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew is still in effect for those streets, police said.  

SUFFOLK The city will reopen streets in the Hillpoint Farms neighborhood at 7 a.m. Wednesday for the first time since a tornado hit on April 28. City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glenn made the decision Tuesday after meeting with police and public works employees, a statement from the city said.

SUFFOLK A local television station filed a lawsuit today against the city for its restrictions against the media in areas hit by last week’s tornado.

SUFFOLK Kings Highway is set to reopen to all traffic at midnight Sunday. The road, Va. 125, had been closed between Sleepy Hole and Bennetts Pasture road in the wake of the tornadoes this past week. Roads in the Hillpoint Farms and Burnetts Mill subdivisions are still open only to residents of those subdivisions.

SUFFOLK The tornado watch did not overly concern the city's emergency management coordinator. Capt. Jim Judkins has lived in Suffolk for 55 years and knows severe weather watches are not extraordinary. But his attitude changed when watch turned to warning at 3:53 p.m. The weather had his full attention when specific neighborhoods were told to take cover a few minutes later.

SUFFOLK While cleaning up tornado debris with his Boy Scout troop Saturday, Cody Howell found something familiar. Under a wooden board was a piece of equipment for winterizing a boat. "I remember using it," he said, while hauling away twisted metal and splintered wood, remnants of his great-grandmother's shed. "That tornado just took it and ripped it to pieces."

SUFFOLK Ruth Silberholz pointed at the can of Diet 7UP on her kitchen counter Friday morning, and the one detail she hadn’t noticed until then. “It seems like every time I come in here, I see something different,” she said.

The back of the SPCA van was full of cat food and dog food, beds and bowls and litter, and the front contained Sharon Adams and Dana Goheen, as if anything could contain them, on a mission of mercy.