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Report: Virginia Tech student’s research could change tornado philosophy

A student at Virginia Tech who asked ”what if” now has the full attention of weather experts all over. 

This student says tornadoes, like the one that hit Pulaski last year, are more common than even experts think. 

Her research showed that sometimes tornadoes actually become long and tight as they drop down a mountainside, causing the cyclone to spin faster and become meaner. There’s evidence that happened in Pulaski, Virginia. That theory is called “Vorticity Stretching.”

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One dead, another injured after motorcycle crash in Suffolk

On Tuesday, a 38-year-old woman died after she lost control of her 2011 Kawasaki ZX10 motorcycle and crashed into a guardrail in Suffolk according to police. 

Police say Melissa Jean DeLoatch of the 6000 block of Burbage Landing Circle was traveling on the off ramp from College Drive to I-664 in Suffolk when she lost control, ran off the side of the road and hit the guardrail. Both DeLoatch and the passenger, 22-year-old Brittney Graves, were ejected. Both women were wearing helmets.

DeLoach, police say, died on impact. Graves was flown to Norfolk Sentara Hospital with major injuries.

Police say alcohol was not a factor in the accident. 

VA governor to sign brewery bill into law

RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) -  Governor McDonnell has worked to grow Virginia’s wine industry while in office, and today he’s slated to sign into law a bill that will help  the Commonwealth’s micro-breweries.

Senate Bill 604 gives breweries permission to serve their beer at the same facilities where its made. Right now, the breweries have had to include a full service restaurant  in order to do that.

Without a full-service restaurant they can only sell to go orders, and offer samples.

Several local breweries lobbied for the change including both Legend Brewing and Hardywood Park Craft Brew both of which are Richmond-based.

Update: York County 12-year-old found safe

Update: According to the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office, the missing 12-year-old has been found and is safe at home. 

He was located on the property of a family member that lives in the area. No one knows where he was the entire time until that point, but investigators are talking to him. 

Police believe that he may have run away. 

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The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office has suspended its search for a 12-year-old boy this evening due to the weather. 

Linnie “Trey” Cain, III was last seen in the front yard of his home on Big Bethel Road, in the Tabb area of York County.

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$500 billion in cuts to Pentagon from “Sequestration” comes under fire

“The politicians that cut budgets, they say we don’t need military anymore because the war’s over–wrong answer,” said one Marine Veteran.

“Dumping 200,000 Veterans in an economy with no employment, not the way to treat these modern patriots,” said another Navy Veteran.

They are just two of the thousands of Hampton Roads residents dead set against sequestration.

Last year in the epic battle over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Congress came up with a compromise–cut $1.2 trillion to make up for the increase in the debt.

No one planned on the failure of the bipartisan “Super Committee” tasked with forging a deal, which triggered automatic reductions in spending.

That means $500 billion cut out of the Defense department budget, starting in just seven months.

Mentally challenged man accused of assaulting two women, stripping naked on highway

Suffolk police say a van carrying several mentally challenged people was going back to a group home in Whaleyville when a man became upset.

Police say they pulled over and he attacked two women staff members, pushing one into a ditch.  When police got there, he was naked, stopping traffic in the middle of the highway about a half mile up the road.

“It was an awful sight,” says Ricky Derby who was coming home from dinner when he saw the man.

“I thought it was a woman in tights at first, and then as it got closer, no tights, no woman.”

Suffolk police did arrest the man and they had to taze him to get him in cuffs.  The naked man is under evaluation.  The women were not seriously hurt and they say they will not press charges according to police. 

Homes, cars hit with bullets during shoot out in Suffolk

A shoot out in a Suffolk community early Sunday sent bullets flying into homes and shattered car windows.

“It was chaos; so much glass and stuff, windows busted out,” said Deirdre Saunders.

Her car was one of three hit by the bullets around 3:30 a.m. in an apartment complex on Cogic Square.

Police say it appears that two groups of people were firing at each other.

“It sounded like Iraq, sounded like World War III,” said James Boddie.

Some apartments were also hit in the crossfire.  At one home, a bullet went through the window and hit a wall inside.

“Her kids normally sleep downstairs,” said Saunders, “thankfully they were all upstairs because somebody could have got hit.”

Fortunately, police say no one was hurt.

Saunders says that although this is the worst she’s seen it, people who don’t live in the area are constantly causing problems.