A Portsmouth athlete is facing assault and battery charges after an incident during a state-level track meet. Meanwhile, the Portsmouth NAACP is coming to the defense.

Alaila Everett, a high school senior, said she lost her balance and accidentally hit the other girl when she was pumping her ...

A Portsmouth athlete is facing assault and battery charges after an incident during a state-level track meet. Meanwhile, the Portsmouth NAACP is coming to the defense.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The Portsmouth NAACP has come to the defense of a Portsmouth athlete who faces an assault and battery charge after an incident during a state-level track meet last week.

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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Alaila Everett, a track star and senior at I.C. Norcom High School, is speaking out following shocking footage where she struck an opponent in the head with her baton and ...

PORTSMOUTH — Genoa Everett says he has always tried to prepare his children for life. But nothing could have prepared him and his family for what’s happened in the past few days. Video of his ...

Alaila Everett, a senior at I.C. Norcom High School in Portsmouth, told NBC affiliate WAVY that the incident in the viral video was an accident. The sprinter who was struck by the baton ...

a senior at I.C. Norcom High School in Portsmouth, was running the second leg of the 4x200-meter relay when her baton struck Kaelen Tucker, a junior from Brookville High School, in the head.

NEW: High school track runner gets attacked with a baton in the middle of a relay at the VSHL Class 3 State Indoor ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Alaila Everett, a track star and senior at I.C. Norcom High School in Portsmouth, is speaking out about the viral footage showing her strike an opponent in the head with ...

I.C. Norcom High School was disqualified from ... Everett, a senior at Portsmouth High School, expressed that the incident was purely accidental. "She was touching me to the point where I was ...