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Are children in the Chimborazo neighborhood more at risk with or without their community center? That’s a source of debate since the evening of May...

The world’s eyes are going to be turned to Richmond,“ said S. Waite Rawls III. Rawls, president and CEO of the Museum of the Confederacy, made...

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Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt of Portsmouth may earn enough gold medals to fill Fort Knox. Those medals won’t carry more value than the message...

From the rear of her Libby Terrace home, Cathy Hayden can see the James River view that named our city, the dock where slaves disembarked and the landing...

No one anticipates a fleet of moving vans rolling up again on City Hall at nightfall. Still, the relationship between Mayor Dwight C. Jones and the Richmond...

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Few sights are sadder, or less attractive, than the decaying remains of a dead shopping center. Malls don’t leave a good-looking corpse. While handsome...

Federal recognition for six Virginia Indian tribes is tantalizingly closer to reality than ever. Two bills that have passed the House were approved Thursday...

Richmond, which has stopped running and hiding from a fundamental facet of its history, is poised to give birth to a slavery museum that never should have...

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Not all the vestiges of hate had been scrubbed away in Forest Hill Park. Uphill from where workers removed silt from the park’s lake, a crude swastika...

Even if everyone had done the right thing, Loucendia Reed Lambert still might have been hit and killed by a GRTC bus. But people failed to act properly...

The candidates in Virginia’s gubernatorial race keep talking about investing in education and transportation. How about investing in the health and...

Jokers don’t get any wilder than the one draped on the wall of a Shockoe Bottom strip club. A banner of President Barack Obama as The Joker hangs...

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For R. Creigh Deeds, the latest setback in his campaign for governor wasn’t so much a plot twist as a rerun. Four years ago in his bid for attorney...

The public housing resident received a letter in May saying she’d been picked to receive a rent-subsidy voucher. She’d been on the Richmond...

“I’m thinking this guy could be a big creep,“ said Pappas, who uses MySpace and Facebook. That didn’t turn out to be the case,...

It’s clear that Del. Phil Hamilton badly wanted a job at Old Dominion University. Less clear is whether he actually performed it. The Newport News...

The Chinese-food deliveryman zipped out of Oak Hill Plaza on Tuesday night carrying two orders from Hunan Gourmet on Mechanicsville Turnpike. Heading east,...

The Quest Institute of Charlottesville has distributed more than a million books to 11,000 inmates during the 20-year history of its Books Behind Bars...

Hope, once again, abounds on Sixth Street. Richmond CenterStage, whose grand opening is tonight, rises above the ashes of the demolished Sixth Street Marketplace,...

Becky Lee, chief program officer at the YWCA of Richmond, recalled her reaction upon learning that entertainer Chris Brown’s punishment for assaulting...

But on the 20th anniversary of a Labor Day weekend of notorious unrest here in Virginia Beach, the oceanfront of this resort city could hardly have been...

What? Parents are protesting an American president’s message that their children study hard and stay in school? Some school systems, cowed by grumbling...

“Man’s basic nature is inclined towards evil, and when the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse, or homosexuality,...

Roadside fruit and vegetable stands stocked with plump, juicy tomatoes? Check. Cornfields, horse farms and rural vistas? Check. Panhandlers standing in...

As dog killer Michael Vick resumed his pigskin career amid cheers this week, the animal-welfare advocate who stridently opposed his return is under siege....