On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, Gregory discusses her conversations with parents of Bay View Elementary School students who say they found out from Child Protective Services that their children’s special education teacher was being investigated for child abuse.

Beyond the Headlines

We Investigate Allegations Of Child Abuse At A Norfolk Elementary School

On this week’s episode, a team of journalists consisting of Alissa Skelton, Peter Coutu, Tim Eberly, Gary Harki and senior editor Jeff Reece explains what they’ve learned from interviewing dozens of witnesses and city employees, reading documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and listening to recordings from police on May 31.

What we’ve learned about the Virginia Beach shooting in the last 7 months

Scott Daugherty and Elisha Sauers share what they’ve uncovered so far about Dr. Javaid Perwaiz, a Chesapeake gynecologist who was charged with one count each of health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters.

Investigating the Chesapeake doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgeries

Virginian-Pilot reporter Katherine Hafner examined recycling in our region and what has changed after China stopped accepting most of our recycling early last year.

A reporter investigated the state of recycling in Virginia. Here’s what she found.

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, reporters Tim Eberly and Scott Daugherty discuss the 11 federal corruption charges brought down against McCabe in late October and reflect on how those charges came to be.

In wake of federal indictment, reporters reflect on Norfolk Sheriff Bob McCabe investigation

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, reporter Dave Ress explains what’s at stake in Virginia’s usually sleepy off-off-year elections, when all 140 seats in the General Assembly are up for election and party control of the legislature could come down to a handful of seats.

All 140 seats in the General Assembly are up for election

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, we explore how the Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot cover high school sports in a region that includes some 60 public schools and dozens of private schools.

Kempsville’s football team broke a 63-game losing streak Friday night. Here’s how we covered it.

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, Norfolk city hall reporter Ryan Murphy gives an overview of the state of casinos in Virginia.

The state of casinos in Hampton Roads

Teachers at the 62-year-old school said there have been rats and roach problems for years but the situation’s grown significantly worse since the summer. Pilot reporter Sara Gregory tells how she and newsroom staffers investigated the story.

How we learned about the rat, mold and cockroach problems at Norfolk’s Sherwood Forest Elementary

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, new editor-in-chief Kris Worrell breaks down her first six weeks on the job.

Meet Our Newsroom’s New Top Editor, Kris Worrell

Education reporter Sara Gregory breaks down what reporters look for when we look at school accreditation results, and what that means for students and parents in Hampton Roads schools.

How we know whether Virginia schools are improving

On this week’s Beyond the Headlines podcast, Saleen Martin walks us through what she found when she knocked on motel doors, and how she got people to open up about their living conditions.

Tenants feared getting kicked out of motel where they lived. So we went knocking on doors.

Virginian-Pilot reporter Jane Harper really wanted to know what happened the day a man stopped two people from robbing a Virginia Beach 7-Eleven with his own gun. After reporting the man wouldn’t be charged, Harper got a phone call — would she like to talk to the bystander?

An armed bystander stops a Virginia Beach robbery

On this week’s episode of Beyond the Headlines, Jakon Hays discusses what it was like to work in the morgue, or news library, surrounded by clippings and photos of desegregation, the Vietnam war and hurricanes hitting Hampton Roads.

A ‘time machine’ inside the newsroom library: A look at the Pilot’s archives

Fort Monroe and Hampton commemorated the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves arriving in Virginia from Aug. 23-25. The event was a culmination of years-long planning for the event. Daily Press reporters Mike Holtzclaw, Josh Reyes and Lisa Vernon Sparks join Beyond the Headlines to talk about their coverage of the event and the history behind it.

Covering the 400th anniversary of the first Africans arriving in Virginia

Beyond the Headlines, a podcast from The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, takes you beyond the headline of our stories for a deeper conversation with our reporters.

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