PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth police said they seized computers and arrested five people on allegations they ran illegal gambling operations.

The arrests were made Thursday evening, police said Friday.

NORFOLK A man who pleaded guilty to a felony hit-and-run charge in a wreck that killed a man will serve 16 months for the crime, a judge ruled Thursday. Doncelle McClendon, 20, must also pay $3,000 to the family of Michael Hill, the man who was killed. An additional three-year sentence was suspended.

SUFFOLK The Commonwealth's Attorney's Office has begun its review of the deadly shooting of a burglar by a Whaleyville store owner. Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Will Jamerson said his office received the Suffolk police investigation into the June 21 incident Thursday afternoon. "It will be thorough," Jamerson said. "I can't tell you how long it will take."

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Prosecutors say a New Jersey woman convicted of killing and dismembering her husband should not get a new trial.

In legal papers filed Thursday with the state Appellate Division, the Attorney General's Office disputes claims by lawyers for Melanie McGuire that a gun she bought before her husband was killed could not have been the murder weapon.

By Ricardo Lopez Two masked men robbed a bank and shot at witnesses during their getaway, police said in a news release.

The robbery occurred Thursday about 12:50 p.m. at the Chartway Federal Credit Union, 5004 Ferrell Parkway.

The robbers approached bank tellers, displayed handguns and demanded money, police said. They fled the bank in a red sedan with an unspecified amount of cash.

By Ricardo Lopez Ryan Early, 24, of Portsmouth was arrested by Virginia Beach police June 25, accused of using the Internet to solicit sex from a minor, police said in a news release.

Early twice solicited sex from a Beach detective posing as a minor, according to an investigation by Beach police, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

NORFOLK Two suspects in the murder-for-hire of a Navy sailor presented, for the first time publicly, their defense in the case: They didn't do it, their lawyers told a federal court jury Thursday.

SUFFOLK A 15-year-old already charged in connection with a June 24 blaze that destroyed three houses in Olde Town, four vehicles and a fire truck is facing additional charges, the city announced today.

NORFOLK

A man charged in April with a home invasion in which a woman was beaten has been indicted, WVEC-TV was reporting.

SUFFOLK

Police have identified a 17-year-old who they plan to charge with burglary in a case where he apparently took a picture of himself on the victim’s cell phone, then left the phone behind.