It's been a year since a Virginia Beach neighborhood received regular mail delivery and it doesn't look like the US Postal Service is going to be much help for residents. A cluster mailbox was struck by a car and severely damaged last December in the Campus East community. Resident Charlotte Keeley tells WAVY she uses an Uber to pick up her mail directly at the Witchduck Post Office.Preview: Other neighbors also expressed their frustrations.Preview: The Post Office says maintaining and replacing the cluster mailbox is the responsibility of the property owner.
A Henrico County hospital is investigating how some babies wound up with what it calls unexplainable injuries. Henrico Doctor's Hospital says three pre-term babies had broken bones in the last couple months. The hospital has since stopped admissions to its neonatal ICU, and its offering more safety training programs for employees. Henrico Police, the VDH and VSP are also investigating. The VDH says this a serious situation.
A northern Virginia courthouse named for a Howard University dean has been selected as a National Historic Site. The National Park Service selected the Charles Hamilton Houston Courthouse for the honor earlier this month. Loudoun County renamed the courthouse for Houston earlier this year, noting that he led an all-Black team of lawyers who defended a Black man accused of murder in the 1930s. The case set the stage for future racial equality rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court. The designation makes the courthouse eligible for financial assistance to help with the preservation of the building.