YORKTOWN Yorktown's Civil War history is being celebrated over the next three days with presentations on surveillance balloons, troop encampments and other demonstrations.

She's a Broadway baby, even if television does pay the bills.

RICHMOND The Virginia Supreme Court today exonerated a Charles City man wrongfully convicted of a 1978 rape.   The justices granted a writ of actual innocence to Bennett Barbour, 56. Barbour was convicted of the rape of a 19-year-old College of William and Mary student at an off-campus apartment in Williamsburg.  

JAMES CITY COUNTY Police escorted a vocal county critic out of the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday night after he refused to stop speaking during a public comment period.

WILLIAMSBURG Public and private-sector leaders and professionals are gathering in Williamsburg to talk about prisoners re-entering the community. The first statewide Offender Re-entry Conference is set for today and Thursday at the Williamsburg Hotel and Conference Center.

NORFOLK
The deterioration of the Carter's Grove mansion near Williamsburg is far worse than previously revealed.
State historic preservation inspectors have become so concerned about the property that they worry the mansion might explode due to a hazardous condition in the basement.

WILLIAMSBURG Colonial Williamsburg is adding more than 20 antique tinsmithing tools to its collection. The historic area says the tools donated by a New York couple will help Colonial Williamsburg add tinsmithing to the dozens of 18th-century trades practices by historic trade artisans.

JAMES CITY COUNTY A 19-year-old was charged with drug and gun counts after authorities served a search warrant on his home in the 2400 block of Manion Drive in the Drummonds Field subdivision. Police seized about 2 ½ pounds of marijuana, a marijuana plant and a shotgun, according to a news release from the James City County Police Department. The value of the drugs recovered is $25,000.

WILLIAMSBURG
Gerta and Gunter have a secret.
The German guides introduce themselves on video screens as you wait in line for Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s newest roller coaster, Verbolten, which has its grand opening this weekend.

WILLIAMSBURG  Peninsula Health Officials are asking for the public’s help locating a dog that bit a man Sunday in the Merchants Square area of Colonial Williamsburg.