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Date apprehended. February 4, 1984. Syvasky Lafayette Poyner (April 7, 1956 – March 18, 1993) was an American rapist and spree killer who killed four women and a teenage girl during a series of armed robberies in Hampton, Virginia in 1984. Convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and condemned to death, Poyner was executed in 1993.
Virginia Women in History. Virginia Women in History was an annual program sponsored by the Library of Virginia that honored Virginia women, living and dead, for their contributions to their community, region, state, and nation. [1] The program began in 2000 under the aegis of the Virginia Foundation for Women and Delta Kappa Gamma Society ...
Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both naval and commercial ships. Located in the city of Newport News, Virginia, its facilities span more than 550 acres (2.2 km 2 ). The shipyard is a major employer, not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but ...
1881–1896: tiny farming village becomes a new city. Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.
Contents. List of cities and counties in Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.
1497043 [4] Website. www.nnva.gov. Newport News ( / ˌnuːpɔːrt -, - pərt -/) [6] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [5] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States.
This is a category for people from Newport News. For people born in or from Warwick County , Virginia , which was in existence from 1634 until 1958 when it was consolidated with Newport News, see Category:People from Warwick County, Virginia .
2767-5971. Website. dailypress .com. The Daily Press Inc. is a daily morning newspaper published in Newport News, Virginia, which covers the lower and middle Peninsula of Tidewater Virginia. It was established in 1896 and bought by Tribune Company in 1986. Current owner Tribune Publishing spun off from the company in 2014.