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A child was flown to the hospital after she fell of a horse during a riding lesson in Chesapeake Tuesday morning. Fire crews were initially told the 6-year-old girl was unconscious after the incident that happened just before 10:30 a.m. in the 400 block...

A man in his early 20s was flown to the hospital with significant burns to his body after a kitchen fire in Newport News Friday afternoon. Newport News fire crews were called to the 1200 block of 28th Street just before 2:30 p.m., according to a news...

Anyone who has seen the film "Amour," a harrowing depiction of end-of-life issues, shouldn't need to be told that they need an advance medical directive. Still, it wasn't until I started work on the series that ran earlier this week that it finally...

At age 87, Stanley R. Ballou Jr. had multiple medical conditions and required nursing home care. He endured several infections and associated emergency hospitalizations. "Each time he lost a little more ground. There were more and more heroics on each...

The new emphasis on patient-centered care, prompted by the Affordable Care Act, is having a spill-over effect. More and more people are documenting what type of medical care they want and don't want through advance directives. "I call them life-planning...

Local inventors are competing in a live 72-hour Red Bull Creation challenge in Brooklyn starting Thursday. The North Street Labs team from Portsmouth is one of six teams vying for a $10,000 cash purse. If the team wins, the money would buy tools to...

Portsmouth police have arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with a June 4 shooting, the second arrest made in the case. Wesley Devon Parker, of Corapeake, N.C., was charged with abduction, robbery, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony...

Police have arrested and charged a 20-year-old Portsmouth man in connection to a shooting that occurred earlier this month in the 2400 block of Elm Avenue. Lijuah Amar Bauman, of the 3500 block of Hartford Street, has been charged with several...

All three Bon Secours hospitals in Hampton Roads — Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News, Maryview in Portsmouth and DePaul in Norfolk — have earned the American Heart Association's "Mission: Lifeline" recognition for heart attack care....

A man who lives in Suffolk’s Chorey Park Apartments was taken to the hospital after a fire at the building Friday. Suffolk Fire & Rescue crews arrived to the 800 block of West Constance Road just before 6:30 p.m., according to a news release....

Norfolk police have arrested a man in connection to a Sunday shooting that left one man dead. Germiracle Raheem Freeman, 31, of the 400 block of Mariner’s Way in Norfolk, has been charged with murder and use of a firearm, according to a Norfolk...

A train hit a woman in Chesapeake Monday afternoon, causing life-threatening injuries. Police found the 35-year-old victim at Liberty Street and Seaboard Avenue at about 3:15 p.m., Ravi Sheth, a spokesman for the Chesapeake Police Department, said in an...