A sink hole on Interstate 64 near New Kent County has been repaired, but will take several hours to set, so the lane remains closed until about 8 p.m. Crews discovered the sink hole in the eastbound lanes at mile marker 207, east of the Bottoms Bridge exit, as they performed maintenance overnight, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

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The proposal to place tolls on two Hampton Roads tunnels breathed its last today – for this General Assembly session, at least.

Del. Joe May’s bill, HB1323, would have imposed a $2 toll on the Hampton Roads and Monitor-Merrimac Memorial bridge-tunnels to pay for operation, maintenance and repairs.

An award-winning elementary school failed to test 16 students last spring during mandatory exams used by the state to gauge academic performance.

Dreamkeepers Academy is now the fourth Norfolk school found to have testing irregularities last year on the Standards of Learning exam or an alternative test.

RICHMOND If the House of Delegates has its way, Virginians soon will be protected against the threat of having human tracking devices implanted into their bodies. Del. Mark Cole’s bill, HB53, makes the implantation of such a device without a person’s informed written consent a misdemeanor. The measure won preliminary approval Tuesday.

VIRGINIA BEACH Violent crime dropped 13 percent and property crime rose 5 percent in 2009 compared to the year before, Police Chief Jake Jacocks Jr. said today.

The number of robberies decreased from 538 in 2008 to 442 last year. Aggravated assaults decreased from 424 to 371.

Rape increased from 69 to 78, and homicide increased from 15 to 18.

Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder delivered a broadside to the White House today in an online column calling for President Barack Obama to remove former Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Local health departments still have free vaccine for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, available for people 6 months and older.

Chesapeake will have vaccine clinics at the following times and locations: Wednesday: 3 to 6 p.m. at Deep Creek Community Center, 2901 Margaret Booker Drive. Friday: 10 a.m. to noon at Western Branch Community Center, 4437 Western Branch Blvd.

RICHMOND Legislation to sell state-owned liquor stores and devote the proceeds to transportation won't pass this session.

Sen. Mark Obenshain effectively withdrew his measure Tuesday to divest the state of its Alcoholic Beverage Control stores.

The YMCA is pulling the plug on a plan to build a summer camp in Northwest River Park.

Chuck Harris, chief executive officer of the YMCA of South Hampton Roads, said today that the decision was made after his organization learned it would have to build a sewage treatment system, which would violate a promise not to create any negative environmental impacts.

VIRGINIA BEACH A judge today reduced the active sentence of a jailhouse informant who has helped prosecutors in several high-profile cases. Circuit Judge A. Bonwill Shockley cut Timothy Gurley's active sentence from 25 to 12 years during a hearing today at Gurley's request.