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| The story of white sauce, Virginia's unique contribution to Mexican American cuisine | | Sit down at a family-style Mexican restaurant in southeastern Virginia, and chances are you will be served a mysterious white sauce unknown in Mexico. The dipping sauce has no name except "white sauce," or "salsa blanca," and it was, by all accounts, invented in Hampton Roads. | | |
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| Ex-director of Newport News airport arrested on federal charges in airline scandal | | The former head of Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport was charged with a series of federal financial crimes involving the airport's $4.5 million loan to a defunct airline. | | |
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| Granby Theater in downtown Norfolk revived as entertainment venue | | For the past few years, there was no casually wandering into downtown Norfolk’s Granby Theater to be entertained. Events on its marquee advertised private soirees, be they weddings or corporate retreats. Not anymore. | | |
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| Regional jail chief asks cities for 113 more officers at a cost of $7M, Portsmouth undersheriff says | | The Hampton Roads Regional Jail needs 113 additional officers and a second full-time psychiatrist to comply with the findings of a U.S. Justice Department investigation, the jail's board was told, according to a Portsmouth Sheriff's Office official. | | |
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| The story behind all those tractors you see on your way to the Outer Banks | | Thousands of people stop at Morris Farm Market on the way to the Outer Banks from April through October to buy produce and homemade goods. But the thing most people remember about the place is the row of old tractors out front. | | |
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| Revolutionary War shipwrecks near Yorktown getting their first good look in years | | For the first time in nearly three decades, archaeologists slipped into the murky York to assess what’s left of the Lost Fleet at Yorktown, a British convoy sent to its doom during the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. | | |
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| USS John C. Stennis arrives in Norfolk: Here's what you should know about the carrier | | The Stennis shifted its homeport to Norfolk to prepare for its midlife refueling and overhaul at Newport News Shipbuilding. The infusion of personnel will provided a jolt to the local economy after the spring departure of the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is moving to San Diego. | | |
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| The saga of sharecropping: Reflecting on its tolls and the tenacity of family that helped build Virginia and the South | | Sharecropping started after the Civil War among landowners who needed to keep, but had to pay, former slaves. Poor white families were also snared into sharecropping. The Virginian-Pilot asked readers who were part of a sharecropping family to share their experiences. | | |
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