By Frank Green Richmond Times-Dispatch RICHMOND Investigators knocked on Bennett S. Barbour's door on Valentine's Day 1978 and arrested him on a charge of raping a College of William and Mary student at gunpoint a week earlier.

WILLIAMSBURG Colonial Williamsburg says its paid admission for the historic area fell in 2011 in what it called a challenging year.

WILLIAMSBURG
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' induction Friday as the new chancellor of the College of William and Mary comes with no pay and no power but makes him part of a lineage that includes giants of American and British history.

YORK COUNTY Two children, one a 2-year-old who was ejected from a vehicle, were seriously injured in a crash Thursday afternoon that shut down the intersection of Hampton Highway and Yorktown Road.

NEWPORT NEWS

A Williamsburg woman was sentenced to serve more than six years in federal prison for mail fraud and filing a false tax return.

Antoinette Reese, 46, also was ordered to pay $829,687 in restitution, a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia said. Reese pleaded guilty to the charges in September.

WILLIAMSBURG Health officials are asking for the public’s help locating a cat that bit a person in Ford’s Colony on Tuesday. The cat is large, black and white with a white stripe down its nose, according to a news release from the Peninsula Health District. The cat looks healthy. If it isn’t found, the person who was bitten will have to undergo shots to prevent rabies.

JAMES CITY COUNTY

A device that forced residents from their homes on North Riverside Drive in the Chickahominy Haven subdivision Monday was an inactive prop, fire investigators determined.

Investigators were called to the home about 5 p.m. on a report of a possible explosive device on a shelf in a backyard shed, according to a news release from the Fire Marshal’s Office.

NORFOLK, Va. Kyle O'Quinn scored 18 points to lead Norfolk State to a 76-59 victory over Morgan State Saturday night in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game.

The Spartans (16-6, 8-0) remained unbeaten in the MEAC behind the play of O'Quinn, who hit 7 of 11 shots from the floor, and Pendarvis Williams, who scored 14 points. Norfolk State led 41-22 at halftime.

WILLIAMSBURG State police have arrested a New Kent County man and charged him with threatening county judges and a magistrate.

  Editor's note: In a previous version of this story, Secret Service Agent Jason Clickner's name was misspelled. This story has since been corrected. By Eric Tucker WASHINGTON