The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA

By JACQUELINE EDMONDS-CLARK IN 1969, there was a black, teenage girl in Portsmouth who won the Junior Miss Pageant, ahead of the daughters of the white business elite there. This was not supposed to happen. (Newspapers at the time said the honor student "was the first Negro to win the Portsmouth Junior Miss title.")

Detroit Deserves Washington's Help

It's one of the most famous sentiments in American business. Given the state of the U.S. economy, it's now one of the most chilling: "For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa," Charles Wilson, president of General Motors, told the U.S. Senate in 1953. "The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country."

Dubious Defense for Sen. Lucas Dubious Defense for Sen. Lucas

STATE SEN. Yvonne Miller, D-Norfolk, apparently had an epiphany recently about life as an elected official. Miller, one of about 600 investors in a proposed conference center in Portsmouth, lamented to The Pilot's Jen McCaffery that the project's chief investor - her Senate colleague and fellow Democrat Louise Lucas - is being treated differently from other people in her attempt to secure up to $50 million in federal, low-interest bonds for the project.

How Obama Turned Chesapeake Blue

By Mike Saewitz The Virginian-Pilot

Aid Beyond the Fat Cats

THE MOST important thing the Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama can do with regard to the economy is bring back a sense of fairness and equity. The fat cats who placed the entire economy at risk with their greed and manic irresponsibility are trying to lay claim to every last dime in the national treasury. Meanwhile, we're nowhere close to an economic recovery program that will help the people who are hurting most.

Veterans Day Sailors of the Indianapolis Are Honored

By Lauren King The Virginian-Pilot

Your Views

Political litterBUGS Signs on lawns, signs on median strips, signs in fields, signs on vehicles. Big signs, little signs. Signs, signs, signs! The election is over; still displaying your sign will not change the outcome! Please remove all these signs in a more timely fashion!

For Some Brides, Free Dress Whites

norfolk Koriann Olmsted and her fiance, Joseph Scarano, waited outside Maya Couture for 13 hours in the cold and, at times, in a car.

Naval Veteran Indicted in Sale of Stolen Navy Gear On Ebay

By Tim McGlone The Virginian-Pilot

Legal Clinic to Help Vets with Benefits, Counseling

By Kate Wiltrout The Virginian-Pilot

Radioactive Device Stolen From Truck On the Outer Banks

By Catherine Kozak The Virginian-Pilot

Evms to Cut Pay of President and Dean, Leave 7 Positions Vacant

By Elizabeth Simpson The Virginian-Pilot

Pregnant Woman Hit by Stray Bullet

By Jim Washington The Virginian-Pilot

Serial Killer Strangled 11 N.Y. Women

By Ben Dobbin The Associated Press

Punditry

Reckless Georgia It is important to know which side initiated the war in August between Russia and Georgia. If primary blame falls on Russia, as Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili claims, a new Obama administration will have limited latitude in rebuilding relations with Russia. If it turns out that Georgia is mostly to blame ... Obama will have to make sure Saakashvili understands that a reliable ally does not defy the will of Washington and recklessly implicate America in an unnecessary...

One of the Authors of a Book About Four Men Convicted in The...[Derived Headline]

NORFOLK One of the authors of a book about four men convicted in the murder of a young Navy wife will discuss the work at two locations.

Bloods Gang Member Gets Reduced Sentence for Cooperation

NORFOLK An admitted member of the Bloods street gang was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison after receiving a substantial reduction in his penalty for cooperating with authorities.