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  • Landstown senior Adonis Lattimore practices with teammates as he prepares to wrestle in the Class 6 Region A championships and advance to the state tournament.Adonis was born without a right leg and with a partial left leg. His right hand has only one finger.“When you say you can’t,” Adonis' father, Jerrold, said, “he’s the reason why you can.”
  • Pfc. Jordan Goode's wife, Aubrey Goode, left, and mother Sheri Goode, right, are reflected in the glass of his Army portrait painting. Jordan Goode was killed in Afghanistan in August of 2007 while serving with Army. The painting was done by artist Michael Reagan.
  • Adriane Spence-Townsend looks out the widow of her vehicle between falling drops in Virginia Beach Friday morning February 12, 2021. After three decades, a doctor told her that she had bipolar disorder. {quote}When I got my diagnosis, I wouldn't talk about it... you think you're the only one to feel this way, the only one to act this way,{quote} she said. That's part of the message she wants to share: that mental health can be desperately isolating, and finding help can feel all but impossible.
  • Violinist Kearston Gonzalez, left, and cellist Kendall Gonzalez perform to an audience gathered at the Tabb Library in York County Wednesday afternoon August 9, 2017. The sisters have performed at WNBA and NBA games in Washington, D.C., Charlotte and Houston and both have performed as a soloists with orchestras and won musical competitions.
  • Local pastor Curtis Harris, right, has opened his home to Brandon Gasper, center, who was released from Chesapeake Juvenile Service. Also pictured are Jazell Bodie, left, and Denya Dancy. Curtis Harris runs Original BROTHAS Outreach, a nonprofit that provides support and mentorship to young men, many of whom are involved in juvenile court. For many, Original BROTHAs (Brothers Reaching out to Help and Serve) is an alternative to prison when Newport News and Hampton courts allow it. The program provides tutoring, computer skills, life skills and group counseling, and Harris is on call practically 24/7 for crisis intervention.“Basically he’s the only father I ever knew and he could be my father and teach me how to be a man,” Gasper said.
  • David Dafashy stands inside his home with his wife Mariangela Dafashy, right, his six-year-old daughter Elizabeth Dafashy, and Gaia Carollo a foreign exchange student staying with the family Tuesday evening March 24, 2020. David Dafashy and his wife were among the first people infected with the coronavirus in Williamsburg.
  • Pastor Andre Jefferson sits in reflection during the start of an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of MLK's death at Bethel AME Church Wednesday evening April 4, 2018. Over a hundred people attended the event which was hosted by the Hampton Chapter of the NAACP and Hampton University.
  • Heritage High School teacher David Olivis was trying to break up a fight at the school last year when one student pulled a gun and opened fire in a crowded hallway, wounding two students. Olivis, who was in the line of fire but wasn’t hit.After the shooting, Olivis saw a 17-year-old girl — one of his former students — bleeding from her calf. He said he carried her out of the school, laying her down near a tree and taking his shirt off to staunch the bleeding.A 17-year-old boy was shot behind his left ear, lodging in his lower left jaw and he was also shot in the finger and in the left leg. The 17-year-old boy — also a former student — seemed ready to pass out, the teacher said. The boy was able to get partially on his feet, but Olivis said he carried him across the field to an ambulance on Marshall Avenue because the entryway for emergency vehicles was blocked.“He was saying, ‘Mr. O, I don’t want to die,’” Olivis said.
  • Jamestown's Grayson DeBerry is the Daily Press Boys tennis athlete of the year.
  • Rear Admiral Heivé Blejean of the French Navy stands on the pier after the French tall ship Hermione docks at Yorktown Friday morning.
  • Kim Phuc spoke at Bethel Baptist Church Saturday December 5, 2015. Phuc is the child in the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken by Nick Ut of her running away from a napalm attack in Vietnam.
  • Instructional technology coach Nick Swan assists students and families checkout Chromebooks to be used during at-home learning at Warwick High School in Newport News Monday afternoon March 16, 2020.
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  • Christopher Newport University philosophy professor Dr. Eric Silverman along with a Regent University professor have received a grant to study immortality from University California-Riverside.
  • Malik Deloatch has led the Heritage Hurricanes back to the Group 4A South semifinals after taking over a quarterback after the sixth week in the season.
  • County Commissioner Frank Thompson chases his dog around his yard attempting to put a leash around him. Mike, a 100-pound beast of a pit bull-Labrador mix, once jumped through the living room window at the sight of the neighbor's cat. Thompson, 82, was elected in November to his fourth consecutive term on the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners. Thompson is full of eccentricities that make him stand out on the county board. {quote}He endeared himself to us,{quote} says Vice Chairwoman Deb Buchholtz-Hiemstra. {quote}He's out in his community all the time, talking to his neighbors. You can just tell there's a lot of emotion in what he says and what he brings to the board.{quote}
  • Performers of The Wiz dance during a rehearsal Thursday evening February 4, 2016. The musical will be performed at the Ella Fitzgerald Theater at the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center February 18-27.
  • Deandre Battle laughs as water splashes over him while swimming at the Doris Miller Pool Saturday afternoon July 27, 2019.
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