Richmond police say this morning that four people were shot just after midnight in North Richmond, and at least one victim has life-threatening injuries.

Richmond police are investigating a shooting last night in the Whitcomb Court public housing complex.

THIS IS HOW IT GOES
Through: Nov. 21
Tickets: $10-$25
Info: (804) 355-2001 or http://www.firehousetheatre.org

Playwright Neil LaBute is known for exposing the bad behavior and bad motives that people like to hide. In plays such as “In the Company of Men” and “Fat Pig,“ his characters display the secret thoughts and cruelties that we suspect are lurking in the worst of us—if not in all of us. In “This Is How It Goes,“ the 2005 LaBute play now at Firehouse Theatre Project, there are breathtaking moments when the three main characters—who are in an interracial love triangle—reveal their racist, sexist, classist truths. Not breathtakingly beautiful, but breathtakingly ugly. And startlingly courageous in their way.

The license of a Staunton physician accused of having sexual relations with patients, verbally abusing a 5-year-old, smoking marijuana and other misconduct was suspended yesterday for three years. The Virginia Board of Medicine approved the suspension in a 6-0 vote. The action averted a hearing on Dr. Charles K. Weisman, who offered to accept the penalty provided that he did not have to admit or deny the allegations.

The license of a Staunton physician accused of having sexual relations with patients, verbally abusing a 5-year-old, smoking marijuana and other misconduct was suspended yesterday for three years. The Virginia Board of Medicine approved the suspension in a 6-0 vote. The action averted a hearing on Dr. Charles K. Weisman, who offered to accept the penalty provided that he did not have to admit or deny the allegations made against him.

Authorities arrested a man they say tried to kill himself by setting fire to a house in Richmond’s East End, only to be rescued by firefighters from the burning building.

‘Waste Not Want Not’ Opening reception: 6 to 8 p.m. today. Free and open to the public; exhibit is on view through August. Where: Valentine Richmond History Center, 1015 E. Clay St. When: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Admission: $8 for adults; pay what you can on the second Sunday of each month Info: (804) 649-0711 or ValentineMuseum.com

Police said that a pickup truck involved in a serious hit-and-run Sunday night may be missing part of a plastic bug deflector across the hood.

• In 1978, City Councilman Raymond D. Royall was presumed drowned after he apparently faked a boating accident. He turned up in St. Louis with a new identity. He returned to Richmond and pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a bank in applying for a loan and failing to file a corporate income tax return.

• Also in 1978, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Councilman William I. Golding Sr. had to give up his council seat because he had been convicted of eight felony counts in 1955, including breaking and entering and auto theft. His voting rights were later restored, and he was re-elected.

Valentine Richmond History Center offers walking tours of Hollywood Cemetery on Mondays through Saturdays from 10 to 11:30 a.m. through Oct. 31. The cost is $10; $5 for members. For reservations, call (804) 649-0711.
Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg offers a walking tour that highlights some of the monuments and burial sites near Blandford Church as part of the church tour. Hourlong Halloween tours will be offered on Oct. 31 starting at 6 p.m. The cost is $7. For reservations, call (804) 733-2396.

Some of the special-needs athletes participating in yesterday’s Special Olympics skating event with the performers of “Disney On Ice” couldn’t speak. But they vocalized, smiled broadly and clapped. “That’s from the excitement,“ said Sylvia Seaborne, a John Marshall High School exceptional education teacher who came to the Richmond Coliseum with the group. “They’re making noise. That means they’re happy.“

ALLEY KATZ—10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Bane, Blacklisted, Foundation and others, 7 p.m. Friday, $12. Reckoner, Mercy Screams, With Life in Mind and others, 4 p.m. Saturday, $7-$8. Blameshift, Half Lit Halo, 1997 and others, 10 p.m. Saturday, $7. Fools and Horses, Brian Severn & Those Victorious and Sonance, 6 p.m. Tuesday, $7-$8.

Richmond is tapping the brakes on a proposal to build roundabouts at four intersections in South Richmond and the East End.

A murder defendant’s changing story to police managed to place him at the scene of a drive-by shooting and narrow the number of unsolved cases in one of the region’s most crime-ridden areas. A Henrico County jury Thursday night returned a first-degree murder conviction and recommended a life sentence for Lamar D. Jordan, 26. Jordan, of no fixed address but familiar to law-enforcement officers because of his red Acura sedan, told police that the gunfire that killed 21-year-old Rayvell B. Fitzgerald on Nov. 7 in the Essex Village apartment complex likely was meant for him.