Mechelle Hankerson

1 week ago | whro.org | Mechelle Hankerson

The Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways Museum in Chesapeake is one local organization feeling the immediate impact of President Donald Trump's administration’s decision to cut staff and funding at the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The agency provided local museums with grants to support new programs. According to its grant database, it’s given $5 million to organizations in Hampton Roads in the last decade and closer to $15 million in the region since 1997.

2 weeks ago | whro.org | Doug Boynton |Mechelle Hankerson

The rate of syphilis cases in the United States hit a historic low at the turn of the millennium, thanks to an emphasis on safe sex during the 1990s. But the disease is surging again, especially among seniors and newborns. In Virginia, its worst in Hampton Roads. “The unsafe sexual practices are increasing, and so this is really why it's not a spike, but it's been a general trend moving up from the 2000s up until now, and it keeps going up,” said Norfolk Health Director Susan Girois.

2 weeks ago | whro.org | Mechelle Hankerson

Victoria Crenshaw has heard of cannabis products helping cancer patients eat again and a person with dementia calm their uncharacteristic anger. It even helps her personally, relieving joint pain in a knee she once thought would need to be surgically replaced. “We've had many individuals that come and they're tired of the effect of the Ativan or some other medication that they've been taking for years.

2 months ago | whro.org | Mechelle Hankerson

Parts of southeastern Virginia are projected to get up to 10 inches of snow this week. That’s a major weather event for the region and history shows most of us will be stuck at home for a few days – and the bread and milk aisles were probably bare well before the first flurry fell.

2 months ago | whro.org | Mechelle Hankerson

Virginia Beach will get a new highway marker to honor Willis Hodges, the first Black man elected to public office in Princess Anne County. The city’s Office of Historic Preservation plans to unveil the marker Feb. 8 in the Kempsville area at the intersection of Singleton Way and South Witchduck Road. Hodges frequented the area as he ushered enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War.