NORFOLK

A mother who has supervised visitation privileges with her four children locked herself and three of those children into her home today, sparking an hours-long confrontation with police.

The incident began about  11 a.m. in the 5600 block of Chesapeake Blvd., said Officer Chris Amos, a police spokesman.

NORFOLK

A man was fatally shot this afternoon and his death is being investigated as a homicide, said Officer Chris Amos, a police spokesman.

Police were called to the 1500 block of E. Virginia Beach Blvd. about 2:15 p.m. today after receiving a report of gunshots, Amos said. An adult male who appeared to have been shot was found at a residence and pronounced dead at the scene.

HAMPTON A man seen fleeing on a bicycle is being blamed for two robberies of the same convenience store this month, the latest early today.

NEWPORT NEWS A furniture-filled delivery truck has overturned on a ramp at the interchange of Warwick and Fort Eustis boulevards this morning, forcing police to close that ramp. Lou Thurston, a police spokesman, said the wreck, just before 10 a.m., occurred on the southbound off ramp from Warwick to eastbound Fort Eustis.

VIRGINIA BEACH Virginia Wesleyan College expects a smaller freshman class in the fall and, with less money coming in, will freeze salaries, college president Billy Greer Jr. said Friday.

NORFOLK On Valentine's Day, sailors Devin Stoops, Josh Schmitz and Aaron Moore drank whiskey and vodka in the lounge of Landing Craft #1660.

CAPE CHARLES Two snowy egrets watched with curiosity - and probably some laughter, too - as another load of landlubbing kayakers got ready to launch into the marshy channels at the Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. Sure enough, one would-be kayaker capsized soon after takeoff. Another paddled precariously backward, on a collision course with a mudflat.

CHESAPEAKE The murder trial for James Boughton Jr., the 21-year-old Deep Creek man accused of shooting two Mormon missionaries in January 2006, has been delayed until November 10.

WASHINGTON Jim Webb won a U.S. Senate seat in his first campaign for public office in part because he didn't look, act or talk like the shrewdly political, eye-on-the-White House incumbent, Republican George Allen.

VIRGINIA BEACH
The families of three Boy Scouts killed in a fiery wreck in 2006 have settled separate wrongful-death claims against the Boy Scouts of America and the estate of the assistant Scout leader who was driving the car.
The Boy Scouts of America did not admit to fault by agreeing to the settlement, and the families gave up their right to further legal action.