SUFFOLK Two city men drew long prison terms Thursday after pleading guilty in unrelated cases of sexually abusing children who were members of their families.

HAMPTON

Police are asking for the public’s help to find the person they believe responsible for three separate incidents that occurred in the Northampton section of the city.

PORTSMOUTH
Police have identified the man and woman found dead Tuesday in Port Norfolk and said they are investigating the possibility that the deaths are related.
James David Gough Jr., 47, of the 700 block of Broad St. was found in a burning Jeep Cherokee early that morning.
The vehicle was in an alley between the 400 blocks of Florida and Mount Vernon avenues.

VIRGINIA BEACH Police say a 4-year-old boy was shot in the hip in the 3800 block of Buckhorn Place on Thursday. One of the child's parents called police at 4:17 p.m. to report an accidental shooting, police spokeswoman Grazia Moyers said. The circumstances surrounding the shooting have not been confirmed by police.

By Larry O'Dell RICHMOND Legislation to restrict the use of restraints on pregnant inmates in Virginia was rejected Thursday by a House of Delegates subcommittee, which chose to let state prison officials address the issue through regulations that are now being developed.

VIRGINIA BEACH A man called 911 last week after his brother told him he had just shot their father, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in the incident that left father and son dead and police massed outside a Kempsville home most of an afternoon. There had been signs of trouble the day before, explained the document, filed this week in Circuit Court.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Bob Morin, director of the city’s Human Services Department, says that his agency could have done more to prevent the death of a child at the hands of a foster mother two years ago.

By JESSICA GRESKO

WASHINGTON An attorney for the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan told a judge Thursday that his client has shown he is not dangerous and should therefore be allowed more time away from a Washington mental hospital.

By STEVE SZKOTAK

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Police officers who responded to what they thought was an alcohol overdose of a University of Virginia lacrosse player found her bruised and bloodied body, and quickly realized her apartment was a crime scene, according to testimony Thursday.

By Bob Lewis  RICHMOND Virginia's House of Delegates has written into its law books centuries of common law allowing people to kill those who intrude into their dwellings and menace them.

One bill that shields people who kill or maim intruders from civil lawsuits passed 75-22 Thursday.