The city of Norfolk, Virginia, has repealed a 45-year-old ban on palm reading and clairvoyance for money.

Highly touted prospect Jackson Holliday has been optioned to the minor leagues by the Baltimore Orioles after starting his big league career with a disappointing thud.

Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in Ohio.

A military-themed brewery will open in Virginia despite some community opposition.

A group of residents have sued a public utility company in the U.S. Virgin Islands after authorities there reported finding high levels of lead and copper in the tap water on St. Croix.

Federal regulators want first responders to a train derailment to know exactly what they are dealing with even before they reach the scene.

Officials say they plan to conduct safety investigations of all the major freight railroads over the next year.

The federal government has filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern over environmental damage caused by a train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border that spilled hazardous chemicals into nearby creeks and rivers.

Concerned with preventing growing numbers of suicides, the US Navy is planning to make chaplains regular members of the crew on ships with more than 300 sailors, instead of only the largest carriers as in the past.

Authorities in Ohio say air monitoring hasn’t detected dangerous levels of fumes in communities where crews released and burned toxic chemicals from a derailed train.

Crews in Ohio have released toxic chemicals from five cars of a derailed train near the Pennsylvania state line to reduce the threat of an explosion.

Officials monitoring the smoldering, tangled wreckage of a train derailment in Ohio have warned hundreds of nearby residents who had declined to evacuate to do so immediately, citing concerns about a potential explosion.

A train derailment and resulting large fire have prompted an evacuation order in an Ohio village near the Pennsylvania state line.

Three suicides by sailors assigned to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier were not connected, but the poor quality of life onboard was a “contributing factor” in one of the deaths.

A new purple tomato might be hitting grocery stores next year.

Blake Watson scored on a 1-yard run with 33 seconds to play and Old Dominion beat Virginia Tech for the second time in as many tries on its home field, 20-17.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has cemented her place as front-runner in the race to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson by winning endorsement from an influential former rival.

The increasing threat of sea-level rise on Virginia’s coast means that an afternoon rainstorm can strand drivers for hours and damage cars beyond repair.

Freezing rain, sleet and snow blew into coastal areas stretching from South Carolina to Virginia.

Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams was in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday to urge Black churchgoers to turn out for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in next month’s Virginia governor’s election.

Southwest Airlines says it no longer expects to be profitable in its third quarter.

Naval Academy wants the state of Wisconsin to return the statue. The statue, crafted from melted-down cannons seized from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, was affixed to the first USS Wisconsin prior to World War I. The academy museum contacted state officials last March seeking the statue's return so it could be loaned to the nonprofit Nauticus Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, where the second USS Wisconsin is berthed as an exhibit. Academy museum director Claude Berube last week consulted with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican and former Marine. AdThe academy museum previously extended the state loan until mid-September due to COVID-induced closures in Norfolk.

A Badger and Shield statue is seen outside the governor's Capitol office in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Naval Academy wants the state of Wisconsin to return the statue. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin badger statue that has served as a literal touchstone for so many Capitol building visitors that they've rubbed the finish off his nose could be headed to another den soon. It was affixed to the USS Wisconsin battleship before World War I. He also noted that the academy museum had to return former President Jimmy Carter's plebe uniform to his museum in 2019.

(Joe Giddens/PA via AP)PARIS – At least 50 countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet, including land and sea, over the next decade to halt species extinction and address climate change issues, during a global summit Monday aimed at protecting the world's biodiversity. About 30 leaders, government officials and heads of international organizations participated in the One Planet Summit, which was being held by videoconference because of the coronavirus pandemic. During his campaign, Biden pledged to better protect biodiversity by preserving 30% of American lands and waters by 2030. Another initiative involves a new coalition of Mediterranean countries working to better protect the sea from pollution and overfishing. ___Follow all AP coverage of climate change issues at https://apnews.com/hub/Climate.

Many people at airports this week thought long and hard about whether to go somewhere and found a way to rationalize it. More than 5 million people passed through the nation’s airport security checkpoints between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Transportation Security Administration. But it amounts to around a million passengers per day, or about what the U.S. saw in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, when some Americans likewise disregarded warnings and ended up contributing to the nationwide surge. There is no guarantee from one year to the next,” she said as “Silver Bells” played over the airport speakers. Overall, the AAA projected that about 85 million people will travel between Wednesday and Jan. 3, most of them by car.

REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police have surrounded a Redford Township home Thursday afternoon where an armed man has barricaded himself. Officials say a domestic situation at a residence in the area of Lexington and Norfolk resulted in the gunman pointing a firearm at another individual. When officers responded to the scene, the gunman pointed the weapon at the hostage and barricaded himself inside the home, police say. It is unclear who is inside the home with the gunman at this time. Officials say officers will enter the home at some point.

Maya Gebler, center, Cate and Sophie Carroll , right, write letters to fairies in Norfolk, Virginia on Monday Oct. 12, 2020. In the last few months, more than 700 letters have arrived at a fairy tree village outside the home of a journalist and children's book author. "And they want to write to you.”Beneath a crape myrtle at the edge of a lawn in Norfolk lies a fairy village. Another offers responses from the likes of the Fairy Godmother, Fairy Queen Lysandra and Tinker Bell. The fairy tree village appeared in July outside the home of journalist and children’s book author Lisa Suhay, 55, a mother of five.

US Navy boat found in Ireland nearly a year after it went missing during training operations in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN) - Crew members from a ferry company in Ireland said they made an unexpected discovery with U.S. ties this week when they found a Navy boat floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Intrigued, the ferry company took to social media Tuesday with their discovery. So how did the boat survive over 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean? This is the second time in 15 years that a boat has gone missing at sea, according to Boulay.

Contestants from around the globe squared off a pub in Norfolk, England, for the 11th annual World Thumb Wrestling Championships this past weekend. The rules of thumb wrestling are we have best of three rounds, they're 60-second rounds," Roy Van Bellis, who organizes the championship contest, told Reuters. "To start the match off, we have a professional thumb ring where people put their thumbs and get a good grip inside the ring and then they'll say '1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war.'" The competition was fierce, with Paul "Under the Thumb" Browse triumphing over "The Thumbertaker," while in the women's division, Janet "Nanny Thumb" Coleman beat "Suzy Thumb." RELATED STORIESSocial Media Lights Up as U.S. Women's Team Claims 4th World Cup TitleFrench Midfielder Played in World Cup Final With Stomach BugLets Get Ready to Slowly Rumble!

They say slow and steady wins the race, but what if all the participants are slow and steady? The competition was fierce at the World Snail Racing Championships in Norfolk, England, on Saturday, a race that takes place annually and this year featured more than 160 snails. Humans can bring their own snails or choose one from the competition organizers that day. Multiple heats are hosted throughout the day, with the final race including each heat's winners. "It's not what I expected to do with my Saturday but you know, really perhaps it's a new career for me in snail racing, snail championships."