Federal agents say they have disrupted a multimillion-dollar drug ring responsible for distributing a ton of cocaine in the region in one year alone. The operation was so intricate, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, that drug delivery vehicles were equipped with hidden hydraulic traps where cocaine and marijuana were stashed.

CHESAPEAKE Two people received minor injuries in a fight that occurred early Sunday morning in the area of Harbor North Drive and Channel Place. Police were called to the area at about 1:30 a.m. and found that one person had been assaulted and a second shot in the leg, said Justin Tindall, a Chesapeake police spokesman.

It happened seven years ago. The leaves were falling, just like now. As a nation, we were staggering through the first anniversary of 9/11. Then someone began hunting humans around the country's capital and beyond. For six surreal weeks, the victims fell - selected because they'd wandered into the gun sight, picked off like trophies from the herd.

NORFOLK A man convicted of murder, robbery, and drug and weapons charges will serve 21 years for the crimes, a judge ruled Friday. Deonte L. Mayfield was convicted in the shooting death of 31-year-old Cleavonne Tynes, who was found with several gunshot wounds in the 300 block of E. Little Creek Road in June 2008. A co-defendant, Donte White, is scheduled to be sentenced in January.

NORFOLK Jamie Gallihugh makes a detour on her way to work to be sure the flowers on her daughter's grave have not been scattered by wind. Once she's at her job as a 911 operator, she dreads the calls about wrecks, can't keep herself from wondering whether some other mom would get the same notification she did - a daughter killed by a drunken driver.

CHESAPEAKE George Christian, founder of Financing Alternatives Inc., succeeded in delaying the trial in the state's case against him and his company - if only for a few days.

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Two people have been charged in a string of burglaries in the city that were committed over several months, beginning in March, police said.

In six of the eight cases, residents were sleeping while burglars broke into their homes and stole their property, police wrote in a news release. .

VIRGINIA BEACH The state Supreme Court reprimanded a Virginia Beach Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court judge Thursday for violating ethical conduct standards in a 2007 case.

NORFOLK The man who clubbed her with a long-handled flashlight pulled at the wedding ring Anna Wheeler had worn for almost 50 years. The attacker hit Wheeler as she slept in her bed, waking her. Across the hall, Wheeler's 90-year-old husband, Marion, had also been bludgeoned while in his bed.