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| Aug 17, 2026 | Protecting Virginians: Attorney General Jones Announces Worker Protection Unit; Makes Stops in Kilmarnock, Yorktown, and Hampton Roads | Commonwealth of Virginia
Office of the Attorney General
Jay Jones
Attorney General
202 North 9th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804-786-2071
FAX 804-786-1991
Virginia Relay Service
800-828-1120
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Rae Picket... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | ICYMI: Attorney General Jay Jones Holds Press Conference on Virginia’s Firearm Industry Accountability Legislation | Commonwealth of Virginia
Office of the Attorney General
Jay Jones
Attorney General
202 North 9th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804-786-2071
FAX 804-786-1991
Virginia Relay Service
800-828-1120
For media inquiries only, contact:
Rae Picket... |
| Mar 27, 2026 | What Virginians Are Seeing: Attorney General Jay Jones Shares Roundup of Actions Taken | Commonwealth of Virginia
Office of the Attorney General
Jay Jones
Attorney General
202 North 9th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
804-786-2071
FAX 804-786-1991
Virginia Relay Service
800-828-1120
For media inquiries only, contact:
Rae Picket... |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Republicans seek to tap into Trump energy on eve of Election Day in New Jersey, Virginia | By MIKE CATALINI, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and OLIVIA DIAZ
TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republicans are trying to ride the coattails of Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral momentum, with gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli courting voters in a ... |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Democrats test a new playbook in Tuesday’s election: Less talk of Trump, more focus on economy | By STEVE PEOPLES, AP National Political Writer
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger is more eager to talk about struggling soybean farmers than President Donald Trump’s attack on American institutions. She plays down the histo... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Louisiana and Virginia take steps toward redistricting in a growing battle for US House power | By DAVID A. LIEB, SARA CLINE, BRIAN WITTE and OLIVA DIAZ, Associated Press
Republican lawmakers in Louisiana and Democrats in Virginia pressed ahead Wednesday with plans that could allow mid-decade redistricting as part of a growing nationa... |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Obama, aiming to boost Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia, endorses Sherrill and Spanberger | By MIKE CATALINI and OLIVIA DIAZ, Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Barack Obama has endorsed the Democratic candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, seeking to boost Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger ahead of high-stakes... |
| Sep 16, 2025 | As political violence swirls, ‘slow down and look up’ (Editorial) | Within two hours of Wednesday’s horrific shooting of conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk, video footage — roughly 3,000 students dropping, screaming and scattering in waves after the right-wing activist took a bullet to the neck on a coll... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Richmond election officials face scrutiny over nepotism and ethics ahead of 2024 election | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Richmond's HR department has found that leaders within the city's elections office have violated nepotism and ethics policies, reports the Virginia Mercury.
Why it ma... |
| Jun 14, 2024 | Richmond's hidden LGBTQ+ history | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Richmond's LGBTQ+ community has been active since at least the 1900s, but the details of what that looked like aren't widely known or documented.
Why it matters: That... |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Richmond City Council gives themselves a $20K raise | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Richmond City Council voted this week to bump their annual salary to $45,000 starting July 2025.
Why it matters: It's a $20,000 increase members say could persuade a ... |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Richmond's early literacy rates rebound to surpass pre-pandemic levels | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
The overall reading scores for Richmond Public Schools students in kindergarten through second grade surpassed pre-pandemic levels this year.
Why it matters: RPS beca... |
| May 31, 2024 | Richmond's soccer teams are drawing huge crowds at City Stadium | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
If the number of butts in seats is any indication, Richmond is something of a hotbed for soccer.
Why it matters: Richmond's already-budding soccer scene has taken on a new life during the rebound from... |
| May 15, 2024 | The major items inside Richmond's $2.9 billion budget for 2025 | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Richmond City Council unanimously decided Monday night to pass a $2.9 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Why it matters: The spending plan is funded, in large part, by Richmonders' taxpayer ... |
| May 14, 2024 | Virginia lawmakers pass budget including 3% raise for teachers and state workers | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Lawmakers passed and Gov. Youngkin signed the state's biennial budget after reconvening for a brief special session in Richmond on Monday.
Why it matters: Virginia was facing the possibility of a gove... |
| May 6, 2024 | What to know about the safety of Virginia's bridges | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Data: Federal Highway Administration; Map: Will Chase and Kavya Beheraj/Axios
Drivers cross Virginia bridges in "poor" or worse condition more than 2.2 million times a day, according to a re... |
| May 1, 2024 | Now open: Marylous Soul Dining Experience, Bully Burger pop-up | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Attention Richmond foodies: More new restaurants are in the works or now open to try.Now open:
🍗 Marylous Soul Dining Experience: The latest spot from the owner of Aces Sports Lounge in Shockoe Bottom... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Columbia University threatens to expel student protesters occupying an administration building | By CEDAR ATTANASIO, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JONATHAN MATTISE (Associated Press)
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag f... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Richmond policed asked pro-Palestine protesters to scale back demonstrations | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Richmond police asked the organizer of a weekly pro-Palestine demonstration to scale back the frequency of protests to give officers "a little break" amid staffing shortages, the Times-Dispa... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Everything to know about Richmond's Diamond District stadium plan | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Richmond City Council is poised to approve a new financing plan for the decades-in-the-making new baseball stadium set to replace The Diamond.
Why it matters: The proposal, which the council will vote... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Dr. Danny Avula announces run for Richmond mayor | Dr. Danny Avula is running to be Richmond's mayor.
Why it matters: If he wins, he would be the city's first immigrant mayor.
The big picture: Avula, a pediatrician, became known as "Richmond's Dr. Fauci" during the COVID-19 pandem... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | What Virginia will experience during the April 8 eclipse | Path of the April 8, 2024 eclipse">Path of the April 8, 2024 eclipse">Data: NASA; Map: Erin Davis
A total solar eclipse is coming April 8.
Why it matters: The U.S. won't be able to see another one again for 20 years.
Zoom in... |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Here's who's running for Richmond City Council in 2024 | Every single City Council seat is up for grabs in Richmond this year.
Why it matters: The people who fill them will help decide where your taxpayer dollars go for the next four years.
Here are the candidates that have filed or announced tha... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Richmond's tallest building in limbo amid Youngkin tug of war with lawmakers | The future of Richmond's tallest building is in limbo amid a budget squabble between the legislature and Gov. Youngkin.
Why it matters: The state deemed the 29-story Monroe Building non-functional in January, citing unreliable elevators (wo... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | How Virginia emptied its prisons more than any state in the U.S. | Data: Bureau of Justice Statistics; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios
Virginia's prison population shrank 10.5% between 2021 and 2022, per the latest Justice Department data.
Why it matters: That's the greatest decline of any state during a period w... |
| Mar 2, 2024 | What we learned during the Huguenot graduation shooting trial | Amari Pollard, the only suspect in the Richmond graduation shooting last year, pleaded guilty to killing 18-year-old Shawn Jackson last week.
The big picture: The plea was the culmination of a four-day trial that revealed what led up to the... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | After decades of neglect, Richmond's historic Black cemeteries become city-owned | Three historic Black cemeteries in Richmond will now be under city ownership following a unanimous council vote this week.
Why it matters: The move allows the sites to be protected and preserved after the foundation overseeing them mysterio... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Calls to fire Richmond's superintendent collide with pandemic recovery challenges | A local Black political group wants the Richmond Public Schools superintendent fired.
Why it matters: The latest push to oust Jason Kamras is renewing a conversation on who is at fault when a historically underfunded and segregated school s... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Richmond is going through growing pains | Our city is changing.
What's happening: We've seen it all around us as we've emerged from our pandemic bunkers and settled into a new normal.
Why it matters: All the uncertainty and fear about where we're headed coalesced in a flash point o... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Richmond to expand homeless shelter in Northside | Richmond City Council unanimously approved three ordinances that would establish a year-round emergency shelter in Northside.
Why it matters: The vote expands resources for a homelessness crisis that has been worsened by the expiration of s... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | New riverside development headed for Rocketts Landing | Rockett's Landing could soon have a new riverside development.
The big picture: What it'll be is up in the air.
But the city's Planning Commission approved a rezoning request last week that would allow for an up-to-12-story, mixed-use build... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | The Boathouse restaurant group is ending service fees | The Boathouse restaurant group is ending its 20% automatic service fees on all guest checks effective immediately.
Why it matters: Customers overwhelmingly hate restaurant fees, even as they've proliferated in the post-pandemic dining lands... |
| Feb 5, 2024 | A new steakhouse, dumplings for everyone and more Richmond dining news | Karri here, back again to round up all the delicious restaurant news happening in town.
🥟 Ugly Dumpling — a full service dumpling restaurant out of New Jersey — is set to open its first Richmond location this summer at Willow Lawn.
It'll la... |
| Jan 22, 2024 | The bills Virginia lawmakers have killed so far | Virginia Democrats are killing Republican proposals left and right in this year's General Assembly session.
What's happening: With Democrats' new slight two-seat majorities, this was to be expected.
Yes, but: Knowing which bills haven't cle... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Report finds RPS officials knew of threats to Huguenot student before shooting | The mother of a Huguenot High School student fatally shot after his graduation repeatedly warned RPS officials that people were trying to kill him, according to a new report into last year's mass shooting.
The big picture: Whether the shoot... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | What to expect in the 2024 General Assembly session | It's the second week of the year, which means it's time for a new legislative session in Virginia.
What's happening: The General Assembly convenes today for its 2024 session, which is scheduled to run for at least 60 days.
Why it matters: T... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Sabrina Moreno joins Axios Richmond | This article originally appeared in Axios Richmond newsletter. Sign up here.
Hi everyone! I'm Sabrina, and I'm beyond happy to be here.
A little about me: I partially claim Miami as the city that raised me, but I've been in the Richmond are... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Inside AI's giant land grab | This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.
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| Nov 14, 2023 | Richmond's holiday-themed bars 2023 | Ready or not, the holiday season has arrived in Richmond.
What's happening: Richmond's Christmas-themed bars start popping up this week — as does access to limited reservations from the folks who offer them.
Why it matters: Reservations ful... |
| Oct 31, 2023 | Guidde’s AI automatically generates software documentation videos | Organizations today rely on a growing number of apps to get work done. According to Statista, in 2022, companies were licensing an average of 130 software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, up from just eight in 2015.
What that means for employees, ... |
| Sep 30, 2023 | The Push To Improve K-12 Test Scores Is Connected With Student Well-Being | News headlines that spotlight declines in reading and mathematics scores for American students sit alongside heartbreaking reports on student mental health, anxiety, and school-avoidant behaviors. Test scores and student well-being are deep... |
| Aug 25, 2023 | The Root Of Higher Education’s Excess Can Be Found In… Silicon Valley? | With Harvard in the news even more than usual, I’ve been mulling which Harvard personage best exemplifies the narcissism of our nation’s oldest and most prestigious college where, too often, rules are viewed as “for thee, but not for me.” T... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | Charted: Richmond's college freshmen | VCU's new freshman class moves in this weekend.
What's happening: To mark the occasion, here's a look at how the school's enrollment has grown compared to its counterparts in Richmond.
Why it matters: At just over 4,500 first-year students ... |
| Aug 14, 2023 | Richmond restaurant news: New restaurants in the works | Here's your semiregular dose of restaurant news.
🦪 Beaucoup, a "Paris-inspired dive bar with oysters and cocktails," is in the works for the former Commercial Taphouse space and should open sometime this year, Richmond Magazine re... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | The New School Year Has Issues—Here Is What To Keep In Sight (It’s A Lot) | Patricia Zaragoza checks her back-to-school shopping list in Rosemont, Illinois. (Photo by Tim ... [+] Boyle/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Soft opening: Gramophone Winery in South Richmond | Karri here, once again this week bringing you a dispatch of a new place to eat and drink in the South Richmond part of Southside (can't stop, won't stop).
Driving the news: After two long years in development, Gramophone winery is finally o... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | A retired officer is pushing to bring a Richmond police memorial out of hiding | A statue dedicated to Richmond police officers killed in the line of duty has been indefinitely relegated to a city storage shed, where it sits wrapped in a tarp.
State of play: The memorial, which depicts a mustachioed officer holding a sm... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | The New K-12 School Year Has A Lot Of Issues—Here Is What To Keep In Sight | Patricia Zaragoza checks her back-to-school shopping list in Rosemont, Illinois. (Photo by Tim ... [+] Boyle/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Sprezza moving out of Shockoe and into the Fan | After an eight-month run in Shockoe Slip, Sprezza — the Southern Italian pop-up turned brick-and-mortar — has closed up shop and looks to be moving into the former Balliceaux space in the Fan.
What's happening: Sprezza's owner recently file... |
| Aug 8, 2023 | Report: Richmond risks losing 75,000 jobs to AI | Richmond could lose more than 75,000 jobs to artificial intelligence over the next four years, per a new analysis from research website ChamberofCommerce.org.
Driving the news: Roughly 12% of Richmond's workforce is at risk of AI-related jo... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | GRTC is expanding into the counties and adding a "micro-transit" service | Richmond's transit system is expanding deeper into the surrounding counties and launching on-demand "micro-transit" in underserved parts of the region.
Driving the news: GRTC got the green light this month to extend two existing b... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Narrow house proposal puzzles Richmond city planners | The city's planning commission isn't sure how to handle a proposal for a 12-foot-wide row house in Church Hill.
What's happening: The city's community land trust, which helps develop affordable housing, wants to squeeze the structure onto a... |
| Jul 21, 2023 | How Royal Farms fits into the Sheetz-Wawa war | 👋 Ned here, recovering from three straight days of eating lunch exclusively at gas stations.
What's happening: Royal Farms, a Maryland-based convenience chain best known for its fried chicken, is making a push into Richmond.
The company eve... |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Virginia's new transgender student policies | Virginia has new model policies for how its K-12 schools should treat transgender students.
Driving the news: Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced the policy Tuesday — 10 months after he released a draft policy that drew criticism from LGBTQ+ advo... |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Youngkin is hauling in record money for Virginia Republicans | Gov. Glenn Youngkin's national profile is bringing in big bucks for Virginia Republicans.
What's happening: His PAC, Spirit of Virginia, raised a record $5.75 million last quarter amid national interest in Youngkin as a rising star within t... |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Book banning debate hits Hanover County public libraries | Two recent library board appointments in Hanover are stoking locals' fears that public libraries will be the next book banning battleground in the county.
What's happening: Hanover's board of supervisors approved the new appointments to the... |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Stella's Grocery is adding a Richmond store at River Road | Stella's Grocery is opening its seventh gourmet market in Richmond in the former Starbucks space in the River Road II Shopping Center.
Why it matters: River Road-area dwellers will soon never have to cook again (or at least their personal c... |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Horse racing returns to Colonial Downs with weekend dates | Weekend thoroughbred horse racing is back in Virginia starting this week and running through September at Colonial Downs in New Kent.
Driving the news: Churchill Downs Inc. — the parent company of the famed Kentucky Derby — bought the Colon... |
| Jul 11, 2023 | City buys vacant waterfront land for a new public park | The view that named Richmond is now permanently protected — and Richmonders have four more acres of riverfront to enjoy.
What's happening: The Conservation Fund, Capital Region Land Conservancy and the city partnered to preserve 3011 and 30... |
| Jul 10, 2023 | Mom's Siam workers might be out of a job | Around a dozen workers at Mom's Siam restaurant in Carytown have been attempting to negotiate for better wages and working conditions — and now it looks like some of them might be out of a job.
What's happening: Mom's Siam closed for more t... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Manchester's grocery store strikeout | Manchester's runaway growth apparently still isn't enough to land the neighborhood a grocery store.
What's happening: A local developer who was pitching major grocery chains on a mixed-used development tells Richmond BizSense's Mike Platani... |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Advocates say Virginia's new hemp rules will push people to black markets | New legislation aimed at cracking down on stores that sell intoxicating THC products like Delta-8 goes into effect tomorrow.
What's happening: The legislation hopes to close a loophole that allowed the sale of products containing THC, the i... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Macy's Backstage opens second Richmond location | 👋 Karri here, freshly back from some discount shopping at Macy's, of all places.
Driving the news: Macy's opened its second Richmond area Macy’s Backstage location this month inside its Chesterfield Towne Center store.
The brand is Macy's i... |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Cheat sheet to the 2023 Virginia primaries | It's finally primary day in this year's General Assembly elections.
Why it matters: It's the first election since redistricting, when legislative lines were scrambled in a once-every-ten-years reset that has emboldened challengers.
The Hous... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Youngkin pushing for lawmakers to reconvene | Gov. Glenn Youngkin would very much like lawmakers to return to Richmond to pass a budget now.
What's happening: Lawmakers adjourned over three months ago without reaching an agreement on the state's spending plan for the fiscal year beginn... |
| May 25, 2023 | Virginia colleges are raising tuitions again | Students at most of Virginia's public universities will be paying more for college come the fall semester.
What's happening: Tuition increases of at least 3% have been approved by the boards at nearly every public university in Virginia for... |
| May 22, 2023 | North Carolina Senate Passes Nation’s Lowest Flat Tax, Blocks Cap-And-Trade | NC flatgetty |
| May 19, 2023 | A 26-year-old developer whose firm owns 40 acres of land in Richmond explains why he's betting on the capital of Virginia — and why he would personally invest in real estate there | Harsh Thakker co-founded Dorado Capital in 2019. Courtesy of Harsh Thakker This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Feb 14, 2023 | A Virginia lawyer is demanding University of Richmond pay $3.6 billion after removing family member's name from law school | A Virginia lawyer is demanding the University of Richmond pay his family more than $3 billion after the school changed the name of its law school, which was named after his relative. T.C. Williams Law School was named after a tobacco busine... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | Scuttled Offshore Wind Plans Are Good News For Ratepayers, North Atlantic Right Whales | The fewer offshore wind turbines get built, the better it will be for American ratepayers, the ... [+] commercial fishing industry, and the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Photo illustration by Mary Bryce |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Phlow looks to raise $50M as US aims to boost domestic manufacturing | More cash appears to be on its way to central Virginia’s manufacturing sector.
According to a Form D filing from the SEC, Phlow Corp., a manufacturer that prides itself on making materials in the US instead of relying... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 3D Printing Industry News Sliced: Formnext, Sauber, Stratasys, 3D Systems, BCN3D and more | In this edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry news digest, we cover the latest business developments, partnerships, and acquisitions in the additive manufacturing sector.
Today’s edition features the latest on this year’s Formnext, a ... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Listen: Diverse clinical trials: Why aren’t we there yet? | Clinical trials are critical to advancing lifesaving medications and treatments. But the U.S. is falling woefully short in making sure that these trials represent the broader population, as some researchers don’t even record the racial and ... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Has Harvard Ended The Testing Era It Started? | In the 1920s, Harvard’s adoption of the SAT for admission energized a budding standardized admissions testing movement in elitist enclaves. In the 1960s when the University of California system (UCs) did the same it made the admissions test... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Google e outras big techs estão roubando patentes, acusam especialistas | As grandes empresas de tecnologia, como Google e Apple, têm tanto dinheiro guardado que elas preferem roubar patentes de companhias menores do que pagar as licenças ou desenvolver inovações próprias. É o que falam especialistas em leis de p... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | 10 Things in Politics: Dems scramble after Virginia | Welcome back to 10 Things in Politics. Sign up here to receive this newsletter. Plus, download Insider's app for news on the go — click here for iOS and here for Android. Send tips to [email protected].
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| Aug 23, 2021 | An Afghan refugee who lifted his wife and toddler onto a C-17 military plane to flee Kabul tells the harrowing story of how they arrived safely in the US | Evacuees crowd the interior of a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft carrying Afghans to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15. Courtesy of Defense One/Handout via REUTERS
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| Jun 8, 2021 | 'Micro Grants' Are Keeping Virginians Afloat While Waiting For Unemployment | Last month, Virginians who have gone months without receiving unemployment relief filed a federal class action lawsuit against the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC). According to a legal press release, the VEC is failing to respond to un... |
| May 18, 2021 | Expanding health equity through Covid-driven state Medicaid legislation | Protection people health and insurance concept. Hand shield protect wooden human on table
Now that the Supreme Court declined to hear red-state arguments defending Medicaid work requirements originally slated for March 29, state health depa... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | More than 1000 stores are closing in 2021 as the retail apocalypse drags on. Here’s the full list. | A strip mall store sits empty April 7, 2008 in Ontario, California. Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Retailers have confirmed more than 1000 store closures in 2021 so far.
Disney, Best Buy, and Macy’s are a few of the stores planning to close loc... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Virginia bank first in US to sell bitcoin using ATMs | A Virginia bank claims to be the first commercial financial institution in the U.S. to let users buy and redeem bitcoin at its ATMs. The Charlottesville-based Blue Ridge Bank announced it now provides access to bitcoin at its 19 ATM locatio... |
| Feb 5, 2021 | Best Buy is quietly closing US stores across 4 states | Best Buy is closing five stores in four states in the next month.
Last year was difficult for retailers, and conditions don’t look like they’re improving yet.
Best Buy had a hugely successful third quarter but has not yet released fourth-qu... |
| Jan 14, 2021 | 2 Virginia police officers were arrested after taking a selfie inside the Capitol during the insurrection | Officers Jacob Fracker, left, and Thomas Robertson of the Rocky Mount Police Department in a selfie taken inside the Capitol. US Attorney’s Office, District of Columbia
Two Rocky Mount, Virginia, police officers were arrested Tuesday and ch... |
| Jan 10, 2021 | China Quits Recycling U.S. Trash As Sustainable Start-Up Makes Strides | A recycling center in Newark. China doesn't want this stuff anymore. Now where do we put it? (Photo ... [+] by: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images |
| Jan 3, 2021 | Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin dies at age 60 after contracting COVID-19 | Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin. AP Photo/Steve Helber
Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin died on Friday from complications related to COVID-19, according his state legislative office.
Chafin, a Republican who represented a rural district in Sou... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Morning Brief: Brookfield to buy Exelon’s solar business for $810 million, NRG Energy issues $900 million in sustainability-linked bond | NRG Energy has completed the issuance of $900 million senior secured first lien notes in a landmark issuance, with NRG pioneering the first Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB) in North America, and the first issued by any energy company outsid... |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Vote Like Your Wife Depends On It | Over the last few weeks, a flood of stories have come out about how the pandemic is forcing women out of the workforce. It’s been in The New Yorker, NPR, CNN, TIME Magazine, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Smithsonian Magazine, NBC News, Bloom... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | HGP – TemperPack is Investing $21 Million at its Henrico Plant that Makes Sustainable Packaging Products | After winning some new customers and raising money from investors this summer, TemperPack — a maker of environmentally sustainable packaging products — is planning to invest about $21 million to expand operations at its Henrico County plant... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Most States Failing To Maximize Eligibility For Extra $300 Weekly Unemployment Benefit | Trump's executive memo authorizing an extra $300 unemployment benefits could help millions of ... [+] Americans until Congress passes the next coronavirus stimulus bill; however, it behooves states to take steps to increase how many unemplo... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Protests Against Police Brutality and Trump's Secret Police Are Exploding Across the U.S. | Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.
Protests in the United States against police brutality — and now also against the Department of Homeland Security’s intervention in cities — continued to explode this weekend.... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | No, Trademark Trolls Collecting Various Fake Names For A Washington Football Team Will Not Get In The Way Of The NFL Team's Renaming | As was widely expected, the NFL team based in Washington DC, formerly using the "Redskins" as their team name, will be renaming themselves after years of people pointing out that the name is racist, and the team being so obnoxious... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | No, Trademark Trolls Collecting Various Fake Names For A Washington Football Team Will Not Get In The Way Of The NFL Team's Renaming | As was widely expected, the NFL team based in Washington DC, formerly using the “Redskins” as their team name, will be renaming themselves after years of people pointing out that the name is racist, and the team being so obnoxious that it h... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Reverse Warrant Used In Robbery Investigation Being Challenged As Unconstitutional | Reverse warrants are being challenged in a criminal case involving a bank robbery in Virginia. These warrants (also called "geofence warrants") work in reverse, hence the nickname. Rather than seeking to search property belonging ... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Reverse Warrant Used In Robbery Investigation Being Challenged As Unconstitutional | Reverse warrants are being challenged in a criminal case involving a bank robbery in Virginia. These warrants (also called “geofence warrants”) work in reverse, hence the nickname. Rather than seeking to search property belonging to a known... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Racist Statues Are Toppling Around the World. In Thailand, It’s Democratic Statues in the Crosshairs. | In recent weeks, worldwide protests against systemic racism have brought down statues celebrating figures with legacies of racial injustice.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis was toppled in Virginia. Belgium’s King Leopold II was taken ... |
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| Oct 16, 2019 | HGP – Richmond-based Menswear Maker Ledbury Opening New Store in New York City After Capital Raise | More Ledbury retail shops are expected to follow in 2020 in major U.S. markets. “The nice thing about this capital raise is it will go toward growth initiatives,” said Paul Trible, who co-founded Ledbury with Paul Watson. |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Outdoor Access Raises $2.8M to Expand Recreational Land Rental Platform | Some tech companies – Facebook, Google, Apple – want you to use their tech as much as possible. Some, like Richmond's Outdoor Access, want you to stay outside and enjoy nature.
The startup, founded in 2016, operates an online platform where... |
| Sep 3, 2019 | New Money: Top Richmond-Area Funding and Acquisition Deals in August | August's usual lull in business activity led to a relatively quiet month of funding for Richmond-area startups and tech companies, but a few major deals more than made up for the lack of volume.
Drug developer Landos Biopharma made waves wi... |
