EASTVILLE The house is talking and talking and can't seem to stop. It started last March when the house introduced itself like this: "I was built 125 years ago. Yes, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE years ago. Trust me, they don't build them like me anymore."

MACHIPONGO One person was taken to a hospital and crews worked for several hours to clean up about 20 tons of frozen pork after a tractor-trailer and box truck collided Thursday on U.S. 13. The crash happened shortly after 4 a.m. as the tractor-trailer headed north, said Sgt. Michelle Anaya, Virginia State Police spokeswoman.

NORFOLK The executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is planning to retire after leading Virginia's commercial space initiative for 17 years.

Billie M. Reed notified the Virginia Commercial Spaceflight Authority in December that he plans to step down.

Reed tells The Daily Press that he hasn't set a date for retiring.

Alan Stanz became the visitor services manager at a wildlife refuge on the Eastern Shore in August 2009.
He knew the difference between a refuge and a national park, having spent a few years in the Southwest as a seasonal volunteer, moving between parks.

ONANCOCK
AS THE WIND gusted up to 30 mph, making the air on the Middle Branch of Onancock Creek feel much colder than the mid-40s, Caleb and Anne Fowler basked in comfort inside their cozy 5,100-square-foot home.

NASA will host a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss future projects at the Wallops Flight Facility.

WALLOPS ISLAND NASA successfully launched a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket this morning on a test flight from the Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore.

Two Eastern Shore school divisions are opening late today because of fog. Accomack County Public Schools are opening two hours late, WVEC-TV was reporting this morning. Northampton County Public Schools are operating on a one-hour delay.  

Drummer Vini Lopez and three others who were in Norfolk over the weekend for Clarence Clemons tribute concerts crashed in Maryland on their way home Sunday. No serious injuries were reported.

ACCOMACK COUNTY

A 24-year-old man and three teenagers were charged in connection with five arson fires that were set in the past year.

The four were arrested Friday morning after a three-month investigation, the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation said in a news release.