No injuries were reported in the robberies, which occurred at 5:06 p.m. at a 7-Eleven in the 2900 block of Jefferson Davis Highway and 7:40 p.m. at a McDonald's in the 6800 block of Forest Hill Avenue.
Two new elementary schools and a fire station serving Richmond's South Side will be open within the next eight months, Mayor Dwight C. Jones said Wednesday during a tour of the three construction sites.
Police today were continuing their hunt for a gunman who fled the scene of a deadly shooting Tuesday near a busy commercial intersection in North Richmond.
A group of activists say as many as 45 inmates at Red Onion State prison in Wise County began a hunger strike Tuesday to protest "deplorable conditions" there.
Virginia officials have asked that a challenge to lethal injection alleging executioners are engaging in the unlicensed practice of medicine be dismissed as frivolous.