| Shot in the face, stabbed in the head and nearly drowned with bleach, Brianna Arrington had been dying for about nine hours by the time someone found her. It had been a gang hit, and the 20-year-old mother was supposed to die early in the morning on April 24, 2020, prosecutors said. And, presumably, her would-be killers thought theyâd finished the job after shooting her in the right eye, sending a bullet blasting into her skull and out her right ear. After doing so, Arringtonâs attackers drove her 2-year-old son more than five miles and abandoned him on the street, according to police. A garbage man found the toddler wandering alone just after 4:30 in the morning in West Ghent. Despite being shot in the head, Arrington lived. Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section Newport News agreed to preserve the Lee Hall Depot â the last remaining train station on the lower Virginia Peninsula from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroadâs expansion into Warwick County â and has spent more than 20 years transforming it into a space that would tell the story of the railroad and the county.
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Far out at sea, the hydraulic system that drives USS Dwight D. Eisenhowerâs 29 foot-tall, 22-foot-long starboard rudder started leaking. The carrierâs air wing was still in the air, flying missions. Scrambling to manually lock the rudder into place -- an 8-hour job that meant wrestling with a 49-inch ratchet wrench, with Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathon Timpson taking the lead -- the carrierâs engineers knew they had to find a solution. Locking the rudder allowed the bridge crew to maintain the course and heading into the wind needed so the air wingâs planes could all land safety. Even as the planes landed, Chief Engineer Jim Hornefâs team was contacting Norfolk Naval Shipyard and far-distant onshore technical subject-matter experts.
Read more in this Sunday's Main News section Kayla Arestivo was 8 years old when her dad, who worked in the north twin tower on the 103rd floor, was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She has since moved to Hampton Roads and started a nonprofit equine therapy group that helps military veterans with mental health. Her nonprofit is expanding to do more one-on-one treatment at her property in Chesapeake. Read more in the Sunday Breaksection Itâs only been about five months since COVID-19 cases peaked in Hampton Roads, but area economists say the region is poised for a huge comeback by the end of 2021. Buoyed by increased Department of Defense spending, the areaâs economy is set to rebound drastically after being hammered by the effects of social distancing measures in 2020, Old Dominion University economist Vinod Agarwal told attendees at an economic forecast presentation on June 17 in Newport News. Â Read more in this Sunday's Work & Money section
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