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A long time non-profit health system in Southern Virginia will soon have a new owner. Friday the 59 year old Halifax Regional Health System announced it's plans to merge with Sentara Healthcare out of Norfolk, Virginia. The health system's CEO says this...

A major vehicle accident Saturday in James City County, attributed to racing on a street, caused three people to be hospitalized. It also caused the closure of westbound Richmond Road in the 8900 block for several hours in order to investigate. According...

Theresa W. Fossum has launched the National Veterinary Cancer Registry, a national database for pets diagnosed with cancer. Its mission is to facilitate and promote medical treatments that lead to advances and eventual cures for cancer in pets and in...

For most women, the risk of developing breast cancer over a lifetime is 12 percent. For women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, that risk multiplies to close to 87 percent. In choosing a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy, Hollywood star Angelina...

Norfolk police have arrested and charged a man they say stole an ambulance and crashed into several vehicles in the Ghent section of the city. Lamont Antonio Davis, 25, of the 900 block of Saint Julian Avenue, is charged with driving under the...

Norfolk police have arrested a man they say stole an ambulance and crashed into several vehicles in the Ghent section of the city. Police said the ambulance -- which is described as a private medical transport vehicle --was parked in front of Sentara...

NEWPORT NEWS — The State Medical Examiner's Office has been unable to determine whether a Newport News man who was shot to death in his home in January died of a homicide, a suicide or an accident. Christopher Patrick Day, 35, a truck driver by...

A Windsor man died in a Tuesday accident on U.S. 460 near Ennis Mill Road in Suffolk, near the Isle of Wight County border. The victim was Leonard Benjamin Johnston, Jr., 52, Suffolk police spokeswoman Diana L. Klink wrote in an email. Johnston was...

On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services landed a bombshell on the public with its release of FY 2011 numbers that revealed how much 3,000 hospitals around the country charged Medicare for the 100 most common in-patient procedures....

A 60-year-old Portsmouth man was arrested and charged Monday in the shooting death of his teenage nephew, police said. Dennis Laverne Smith was charged with murder and use of a firearm in the commission of felony, according to a Portsmouth Police...

A youth riding a bicycle was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Princess Anne Road and Huckleberry Trail on Saturday, a police spokeswoman said. The victim was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital after 3:40 p.m., said Virginia Beach police...

On Wednesday, the CMS released FY 2011 numbers regarding what hospitals around the country charge for the 100 most common procedures. Charges varied wildly even within the same geographic region - and somewhat between hospitals under the same ownership....