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Within three months, a cashier at Farm Fresh in Chesapeake slid about $1,000 worth of groceries past her scanner and into the bags of friends and family members without ringing the sales. When her mother came through her checkout line, the cashier gave her unauthorized discounts and m

VIRGINIA BEACH – A city plan to rein in bars and nightclubs, especially at the Oceanfront, won a unanimous endorsement Wednesday from the city Planning Commission. The proposal would allow the city to use zoning tools to control businesses that sell alcohol. Under the proposed o

NORFOLK – A Circuit Court judge has allowed a lawyer access to the letters the city sent rejected voters last fall, but denied his request to view the denied voter registration forms themselves. This decision ends the latest round in months of wrangling between the city’s

In a June 18 opinion to Virginia Beach attorney Kevin Martingayle, the FOI Advisory Council used strong language to  reproach the city of Virginia Beach for its handling of a city employee’s FOIA request seeking results of a work life  survey. In an opinion earlier this year, th

Chesapeake’s Hemphill-Martin is still bitter over her experience. She paid $16 for a lamp at the CHKD thrift store on Battlefield Boulevard in Chesapeake in 2003. It was supposed to operate in response to touch, but she said the only way to turn it off was to unplug it. When she tried

The Virginia Beach Amphitheater and the growing number of arrests there is under investigation by the Alcoholic and Beverage Control Board, 13News has learned. The probe comes amid complaints of unequal ABC and police enforcement by Virginia Beach attorney Kevin Martingayle, who repre

Virginia Beach – One year after being forced from a Virginia Beach farm slated for development, Nathaniel and Beatrice Robinson are living comfortably in their new home, said their lawyer Kevin E. Martingayle. Last summer, the Robinsons were in the middle of a battle over property and

CHESAPEAKE – A legal squabble between the city and a landowner near Dominion Commons off Dominion Boulevard could snag a new retail project that includes a Wal-Mart Supercenter and two new roadways under construction. The landowner, Chesapeake Development of Hampton Roads , is a

VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) — The California company that produces “Girls Gone Wild” — racy videos of young women — was ordered to pay a Virginia Beach woman after a jury determined filmmakers violated a law requiring written consent to use one’s image in commercial enterprise. Mantra Films w