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• Chesapeake to pay tipsters for leads on illegal guns

  How to help Call 1-888-Lock-U-Up to report illegal guns. Issues Critics say buybacks generally attract law-abiding citizens, are too costly and that some use the money to buy better guns.

• Police standoff: Man holds police at bay at motel

  A man with a long history of mental illness is in a standoff with police at a motel near Old Town Manassas.

• Lee Boyd Malvo claims others were to help in DC area attacks, says there were other shootings

  Sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo appears in a Sunday, Nov. 9, 2003 Chesapeake, Va., Sheriff's office handout booking photo.

• VA Shop Displaying Famous Rare Baseball Card

  A Chesapeake coin shop is displaying what experts say is one of the most famous baseball cards in American history, the Honus Wagner T206.

• Chesapeake politics

  State Secretary of Natural Resources Doug Domenech, the supposed guardian of the state's natural resources , says the Obama administration's attempts to impose a "pollution diet" on six bay states is poorly timed given the state of the economy.

• Chesapeake shop hosts rare baseball card

  Loading... A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card is held by Dominion Coin Company owner Ray Ciccone at his shop in Chesapeake Tuesday afternoon, July 27, 2010.

• One lane reopened on Route 58 in Chesapeake

  The Virginia Department of Transportation has reopened one lane of eastbound Route 58 in Suffolk, and one lane of the ramp from 58 onto Interstate 664.

• Chesapeake barge fire

  Chesapeake firefighters battled a barge fire at a ship cutting company at 5412 Bainbridge Blvd Monday night.

• Virginia Beach Police searching for repeat shoplifter

  A thief was stopped by a Wal-Mart greeter but got away with some pricy items. Virginia Beach Police believe it's not the only place he's hit.

• New charge for teen in Chesapeake student's shooting

  A 15-year-old accused of shooting another teen last week will be charged with involuntary manslaughter, police said this afternoon.