Seven people were injured today — two critically — when a flash fire started at an indoor shooting range in Virginia Beach, the fire department said.

The fire started about 1:30 p.m. at A&P Arms' Lynnhaven Shooting Range, 2664 Lishelle Place, said Battalion Chief Leon Dextradeur of the Virginia Beach Fire Department.

  Michele Cleland's son Ryan alerted her to an unusual flower growing in the woods behind their house five years ago. When Cleland walked back to look, she discovered a wonderful surprise - pink lady- slippers growing all around. "I said, 'Wow! What is that?' " Cleland said, still re calling the experience vividly.

By Irene Bowers Correspondent OCEANFRONT Danette Crawford throws a Mother's Day Celebration each year that has grown to 1,600 guests.

Tap. Tap-Tap. Tap. Add rhythm and a lot of gusto, and you have the sound of Tommy Tune. Tap-dancing is his profession. Broadway legend is his apt description. He's won 10 (count 'em) Tony Awards.

VIRGINIA BEACH Scores of Little Leaguers lined a baseball field off Holland Road, shivering through a wintry spring morning as they waited for this year's first pitch. The mayor was there because - well, because Meyera Oberndorf is almost always there. Hence the joke: When three people gather in Virginia Beach, the mayor asks the other two what they want to talk about.

VIRGINIA BEACH With a couple of toddlers and an infant in tow, two Virginia Beach moms entered a Pungo strawberry field at 8 a.m. Thursday Dark clouds filled the sky. Raindrops threatened. But, before 10, the women had picked 97 pounds of berries and were headed for home.

As she marks 20 years in office, Mayor
Meyera Oberndorf, the city's tiny leader,
seems to be almost everywhere all the time.
Story: Mayor’s role has changed as city has grown

VIRGINIA BEACH Men in Jewish skullcaps, ministers in clerical collars and lay faithful were among 500 people at Friday’s interfaith prayer breakfast at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. The event, sponsored by the Judeo-Christian Outreach Center, was a relative novelty in a region where prayer breakfasts are common but typically Christian-themed.

VIRGINIA BEACH After 22 years as a broadcast journalist, Erin Moriarty said she fears for the future of network newscasts. Moriarty, a correspondent for "48 Hours" who has won nine Emmy awards, spoke Thursday to more than 150 women at the spring Women's Review luncheon. The Women's Review is part of the Central Business District Association.