Leondra Head

1 week ago | wtkr.com | Leondra Head

SUFFOLK, Va. — The Trump administration recently cut federal funding for the Safe to Sleep campaign, a public awareness campaign launched over 30 years ago with one goal: preventing babies from dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. The campaign is credited with helping to prevent thousands of unexplained infant deaths, according to the National Institute of Health. Zina Brockman, a Suffolk mother and doula, says she's disappointed in the federal cut.

1 week ago | wtkr.com | Leondra Head

SUFFOLK, Va. — With Suffolk continuing to grow, Bon Secours is expanding its footprint. A Bon Secours rep says that’s why the health care provider is opening its new Harbour View Medical Center. Several attendees filled the room during the ribbon cutting Monday for the new center. Approximately 100 new staff members were hired, including nurses and technicians. The center has 18 private in-patient rooms, four operating rooms, and 12 private rooms for outpatient surgery.

1 week ago | wtkr.com | Leondra Head

SUFFOLK, Va. — Suffolk Public Schools is enhancing school bus safety protocols after an elementary student got off at the wrong bus stop in March, according to Suffolk School Board Vice Chair Sean McGee. The bus safety protocols were discussed at an April school board meeting. "A child got off at the wrong bus stop and there wasn’t a parent there. That’s what prompted this," McGee said. The child was able to connect with a friend’s parent and eventually made it home.

2 weeks ago | wtkr.com | Leondra Head

SUFFOLK, Va. — Suffolk City Council recently voted to rezone land at 7250 Harbour Towne Parkway for residential use, paving the way for a 344-unit residential development to be built. It would sit at the intersection of Harbour Towne Parkway and Harbour View Boulevard, across from the Bon Secours Medical Center and near a shopping plaza. In a recent Suffolk City Council meeting, Councilman John Rector says the job-to-housing ratio favors the developer of this project, D.R. Horton.

3 weeks ago | wtkr.com | Leondra Head

SUFFOLK, Va. — Seven months after a mass shooting in Suffolk where two men were killed and three others were injured, Suffolk Police are still searching for a suspect and answers. William Goodman Jr., 37, and Demonte Tillery, 30, were killed in the shooting. Two other men and a woman were shot and hurt, but survived. Goodman and Tillery's families are hoping for justice in the murders.