Beach Commonwealth News Today

Prosecutors say Nathan Poole was high on marijuana when he drove into a crosswalk and struck the two women. Cases in which drivers are charged with killing someone while high on marijuana are rare and can be challenging to prove because there's no legal standard for how much marijuana is too much for driving.

The former Virginia Beach travel baseball coach accused of distributing child sexual abuse images is being transferred into federal custody.

A warning this holiday season from law enforcement, Mother’s Against Drunk Driving, and even a man who has been arrested for a DUI.

Zuhey is a 5-year-old Labrador Retriever who works daily to comfort crime victims, witnesses and office employees.

Robert “Rob” Catron was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence and $7,500 in fines for his involvement in a petition scandal during Scott Taylor’s 2018 campaign for a second term in Congress.

The body camera and car dashboard videos show that both Deshawn Whitaker and his wife had guns that day.

For decades, localities have pumped money into prosecutors' offices, allowing commonwealth’s attorneys to get higher salaries, more attorneys and paralegals. But officials haven’t done the same for public defenders, leading to widening pay gaps between the two sides of the courtroom.

The Commonwealth, made up of 54 nations of which 32 are small states, should be deeply concerned at the grave threat to the international...

The Commonwealth, made up of 54 nations of which 32 are small states, should be deeply concerned at the grave threat to the international legal order caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and should act together to show strong disapproval.This was the theme of a lecture I delivered at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London, on March 7, to over 100 high-level government and military participants from 47 countries, 14 of which were Commonwealth members.  This week’s commentary is a ...

A grand jury found that a Virginia Beach police officer was justified in fatally shooting Donovon Lynch, a cousin of musician Pharrell Williams.