12 On Your Side Digital Team
Digital Team
The 12 On Your Side Digital Team writes breaking news, sends app alerts and creates social media posts. The digital team consists of:
> Producer Joi Bass on weekday mornings.
> Producer Samantha McGranahan on weekday evenings.
> Producer and News Editor Jessica Redwood on the weekends.
> David Hylton is the digital content manager.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Governor Glenn Youngkin commuted the sentence of former Fairfax County Police Department Sergeant Wesley Shifflett.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM EST
|By Desiree Montilla, 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Amanda Alvarado
A woman saved a toddler who was wandering in a busy intersection.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The “Virginia Has Jobs” initiative comes amid a wave of uncertainty for federal employees after President Trump’s administration issued thousands of layoffs nationwide.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The school division says many other Loudoun families were impacted by the deadly incident at Reagan National Airport.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
On Jan. 24, police responded to a hotel room off Richmond Highway after they said a four-year-old shot themselves in the hand.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The zoo says the birds did not live in any of its aviaries, where the public shares a common space with birds.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Attorney General Jason Miyares says TikTok was intentionally designed to be addictive for children.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Andrew McMunn
Family members said 33-year-old Kayeley Williams and her daughter Maddie were inseparable.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Akim Powell
A registered nurse in Virginia was arrested after several NICU babies were found with mysterious injuries and bone fractures.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Sarah Chakales
The hospital has suspended accepting new NICU babies while it investigates.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2024 at 4:09 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The boy sustained “substantial lacerations and puncher wounds to most of his body,” the King and Queen Sheriff's Office said.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2024 at 4:03 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Police are searching for multiple suspects after employees of a Hopewell restaurant were injured during a robbery.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2024 at 11:19 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Shantel Davis
Gov. Glenn Youngkin called for a ban on "sanctuary cities" and says localities implementing such practices would lose state funding.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2024 at 12:17 AM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team, Sarah Chakales and Gray News staff
Two preschool teachers are no longer employed after a toddler in their care wandered into traffic.
Updated: Nov. 20, 2024 at 5:41 PM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. will be sentenced in February for killing Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and De’Sean Perry
Updated: Nov. 3, 2024 at 7:38 AM EST
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Amanda Alvarado
Jelly Roll stopped at a jail to visit inmates while on tour.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2024 at 7:18 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears has filed paperwork for Virginia's 2025 governor's race.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2024 at 11:15 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
A teacher in Chesterfield is behind bars after court documents say a student found drugs in her bag at school.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2024 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
A two-year-old girl is dead after she was hit by a car along Staples Mill Road Thursday night.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2024 at 1:58 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Police are currently investigating a crash that occurred on I-95, resulting in an infant being thrown from a vehicle.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2024 at 5:51 AM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Violent crime is on the rise in Virginia, according to a new report released by state police.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team, Madison McNamee and Gray News staff
Police believe the victim was preparing to leave and placed his gun on a nearby chair where the child then grabbed it.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2024 at 7:45 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Sarah Chakales
A tree fell on top of a car in a Tuckahoe neighborhood, killing a man inside of it.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2024 at 5:25 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Madison McNamee
A man is in critical condition after a child got a hold of his gun and shot him Monday morning.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2024 at 11:09 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The Dinwiddie Sheriff’s office says Dorothy Sue Wallace was last seen around 4:20 p.m. Aug. 15 driving on northbound Route 1.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2024 at 4:49 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Officials say a week before school was over back in May, the 11-year-old made more than 20 calls to schools throughout the country
Updated: Aug. 15, 2024 at 5:24 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
One of the children at the center of a Virginia Beach AMBER Alert has died after a rollover crash in Maryland Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2024 at 2:41 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Amanda Alvarado
The children's abduction prompted an Amber Alert on Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2024 at 7:16 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Officials say neither the victims nor the suspects are students at Virginia State University.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2024 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Desiree Montilla
James Edward "Scooter" Byrd was found shot to death inside his home in Aug. 2016.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2024 at 5:17 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man in connection to the Sunday evening burglary of the Virginia Trump campaign headquarters.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2024 at 4:55 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Police were called to the 700 block of Grove Avenue for the report of an unresponsive child.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Gray News staff
On Wednesday, around 12:30 a.m., Chesterfield and Virginia State University police responded to a reported shooting on Boisseau Street near Daniel Gymnasium.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2024 at 1:01 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
A 29-year-old man has been charged with solicitation of a minor in Hanover County.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2024 at 6:05 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Former Virginia First Lady Roxane Gilmore died on Wednesday, according to her husband, former Governor Jim Gilmore.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2024 at 12:17 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an Executive Order to codify election security procedures the administration has put into place.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2024 at 8:21 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
A youth counselor in Richmond County was arrested in Richmond County on Tuesday.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2024 at 6:56 AM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Forty-five members of the task forces will head to South Carolina on Monday morning.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The home also serves as an animal rehabilitation facility.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2024 at 8:52 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Some big changes are coming to how your child’s school is graded.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 3:16 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Virginia Democrats are lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party's nominee for president.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2024 at 12:47 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team and Akim Powell
Autumn (Oxley) Crittendon, a former cast member of MTV’s "16 and Pregnant" died Saturday. She was 27.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
A swimming advisory has been extended in parts of Lake Anna after the discovery of a harmful algae bloom.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2024 at 3:15 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Virginia State Police have released new details about a deadly crash involving a horse-drawn buggy in Cumberland County over the weekend.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2024 at 6:34 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Virginia State Police is investigating a deadly crash involving a pickup truck and horse-drawn buggy in Cumberland County Sunday.
Updated: Jul. 14, 2024 at 7:13 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
Youngkin calls for unity in the wake of attempted assassination of former President Trump
Updated: Jul. 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
A mother is dead, and a child is fighting for its life after they were hit by a car in Henrico.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2024 at 8:26 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
NHRA Champion John Force is continuing his recovery after being released from the hospital on Tuesday.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2024 at 8:02 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School will go on trial for her part in the 2023 shooting of a teacher at the school by a 6-year-old.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2024 at 3:43 PM EDT
|By 12 On Your Side Digital Team
The governor’s office says the order would allow the Virginia Department of Education to establish a policy giving school divisions across the state the option to ban cell phones.