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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) -- A Newport News woman was taken into custody Monday night after police say she exposed herself to responding officers during a drunken domestic incident. According to police, Chiquita Lynn'Ray Thomas, 34, of the 4800 hundred block of Madison Ave., got into an argument with a family member at her home around 8:30 p.m. and said she wanted the person to leave. When officers advised her to follow the civil process of eviction, police say she bent over and pulled up her nightgown, and "exposed her buttock and private region while telling police to kiss her...

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly threatened to quit on March 28, according to sources familiar with the events. What I'm hearing: Kelly blew up at Trump in an Oval Office meeting that day, and while walking back to his office muttered he was going to quit. Sources said it was not related to the David Shulkin firing that happened the same day. A senior administration official said that calling it a threat was "probably too strong, it was more venting frustration." Kelly often says he doesn't have to be there and didn't seek the job originally. Details: Kelly...

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney headlined congressional Republicans' big new policy conclave over the weekend, stressing the need to listen to real Americans, but also appearing to slap a potential rival for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. At the National Council for a New America's first "conversation" in Arlington, Va., Romney, who ran for the Republican nomination last year and has kept his name in the conversation for 2012, joined House Republican Whip Eric Cantor and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in presiding over the panel. "I’ve learned that when you sit in a position of responsibility as you do...

Joe Biden and Jim Kennedy stood out on what used to be Maloney Field in Green Ridge as a huge earthmover, with tires 5 feet tall, crawled along. “Run under that, Joe,’” Jim Kennedy dared. Joe Biden, 8 or 9 years old, scurried between the front and back tires, letting the front axle pass over him as the mover backed up. He survived, unscarred. “Jesus, what the hell did you do that for?” Jim Kennedy wailed. If Joe Biden said anything, all Magisterial District Judge James Kennedy remembers decades later is the boy’s laughter and wanting to smush the youngster...