Gerard A. “Gee” Harvell has been missing since April 29 but has been known to frequent the Tidewater area. A missing-person ...

Paul D. Camp Community College held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning, May 1, at 1000 Armory Drive to signal the ...

Heritage Day will be Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in  Courtland, sponsored by the Southampton County Historical ...

The Southampton County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously April 22 to authorize conducting public hearings on Tuesday, ...

Production at Keurig Dr Pepper’s Windsor roasting plant ended April 11, according to Katie Gilroy, senior director of ...

FRANKLIN – Jesse Dempsey Gardner Jr., 96, passed away May 7, 2025 in East Pavilion. Born in Portsmouth and raised in Franklin, he was the son of the late Jesse Dempsey Gardner Sr. and Annie Turner ...

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, a group of Franklin citizens was planning a centennial celebration to mark Franklin’s 100th anniversary as a town. The celebration was scheduled for 1976. On March 15, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH – Rev. Sharon Elizabeth James, age 73, died on May 5, 2025, at her home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Sharon was born on Oct. 3, 1951 in Fairfax, Virginia to Mildred and Roy James. The ...