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Medicaid expansion goes live in North Carolina today, opening up the government-run health insurance program to hundreds of thousands of low income adults.

The annual report from Old Dominion University says Virginia is doing well, but lags behind other states, including neighboring North Carolina.

Nearly a year on from the official announcement, concerned citizens are continuing efforts to block Princess Cruises from making Yorktown a port of call this summer.

"During those early years of listening to black music, one thing I definitively remember, was the feeling the music gave me." Jae Sinnett explains how music has the ability to reach the soul.

A measure that would require citizens to demonstrate competence before purchasing a firearm was continued to next year, as lawmakers plan to work on the larger issue about prerequisites to gun ownership.

The nonprofit Elizabeth River Project recently teamed up with the River Otter Ecology Project to document the creatures locally.

When a public school couldn't attract a theater teacher, it hired a stand-up comedian. School lunch is taking a ribbing, but the school says the students are learning useful academic skills.

Childhood myopia, or nearsightedness, is growing rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. Researchers say kids who spend two hours outside every day, are less likely to develop the condition.

Before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, travelers between mainland Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore could take a ferry or a circuitous, seven-hour drive.

The U.N. Security Council vetoed a U.S. resolution on the war. Gilad Erdan, Israel's U.N. ambassador, said the council "is incapable of doing the most basic task of condemning ISIS-like terrorists."