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Petersburg city attorney gets lesson in First Amendment
Citizens no longer will be barred from addressing Petersburg City Council solely because they owe money to the city. City Attorney Brian Telfair notified the ACLU of Virginia that the prohibition would be lifted, the constitutional watchdog group announced Tuesday. Mr. Telfair issued the response after the Richmond-based group demanded an end to the practice that he previously had deemed legal. “This prohibition violates the First Amendment and must be rescinded immediately,” Rebecca K. Glenburg, legal director of the Virginia ACLU, wrote to Mr. Telfair in a letter issued Feb. 5.
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NSU scores with SACS, state audit
Norfolk State University is finally getting some good news. Interim President Eddie N. Moore Jr. this week indicated that NSU is on its way to having its accrediting agency remove the school from probation and restore it to unqualified accreditation.
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Election Tuesday for 74th District seat
Next week, voters in the House of Delegates 74th District will decide whether Lamont Bagby or David M. Lambert will represent them in the General Assembly.
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Education advocate wants to withdraw Alford plea
There’s a new twist in the case of the Richmond area woman who advocates for children with learning disabilities. Kandise Lucas now wants to fight her conviction of trespassing at a Chesterfield County school where she went to help a family navigate the process of gaining an individualized learning plan for their special needs child.
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Metropolitan Business League sells Jackson Ward headquarters
The Richmond area’s largest African-American business group has waved goodbye to its former home in Jackson Ward. The Metropolitan Business League last month sold its longtime headquarters at 2nd and Marshall streets to a subsidiary of Washington-based Douglas Development, which has been buying up chunks of Downtown for more than 10 years.
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Baker School building eyed for conversion into apartments
A vacant school building at 100 W. Baker St. in Gilpin Court is being eyed for conversion into 55 one-bedroom apartments for the elderly and disabled.
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Feds to investigate advocate’s complaint against Chesterfield school system
The U.S. Office of Civil Rights has opened an investigation into whether Chesterfield County Public Schools retaliated against special needs advocate Kandise Lucas for her work on behalf of students with disabilities.
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Richmond Christian Center bankruptcy issue being resolved
The Richmond Christian Center has had to put off celebrating its emergence from bankruptcy after nearly two years under court supervision. The 300-member South Side church has been told some issues still need to be resolved before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court can approve RCC’s reorganization plan and allow it to leave bankruptcy court protection.
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17th Street market makeover underway
It has taken at least five years of planning and discussions, but the makeover for the old farmers’ market in Shockoe Bottom is underway at last.
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Full appeals court rebuffs McDonnell’s request
Former Gov. Bob McDonnell is a big step closer to reporting to prison. Tuesday, as legal experts anticipated, the 15 judges of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order rejecting the former Virginia governor’s request to reconsider his conviction on 11 corruption charges.
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Warren found not guilty in document case
Not guilty. That’s the legal status of Deidre Warren, the mother of former Delegate Joseph D. Morrissey’s 19-year-old girlfriend, Myrna Pride.
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Plans shelved to turn Highland Park school into apartments
A $10 million proposal to convert the former St. Elizabeth Catholic School on North Side into 92 affordable apartments for the elderly and disabled has been sidelined, at least for the time being.
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Church collecting basic necessities for incarcerated people
A Church Hill congregation is seeking to dramatically expand its efforts to provide care packages of toiletries and underwear to people who are incarcerated, it has been announced.
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Richmond plans to hire new auditing firm
Richmond is preparing to hire a new auditing firm as part of its effort to get the year-end audit of its finances done in a more timely fashion.
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Va. attorney general to recoup money for Target data breach investigation
Remember when Target reported in November 2013 that hackers had stolen the personal and credit card data for more than 60 million customers?
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Primary contests for city sheriff and treasurer
Races for Richmond sheriff and city treasurer essentially will be decided next Tuesday, June 13. With no Republican competition, the winners of the Democratic primaries for the two offices are virtually guaranteed to win in November in this majority Democratic city.
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Maggie Walker statue ready for dedication on her July 15 birthday
It has been two decades in the making.
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Sprint to give RPS students 6,000 tablets with internet service over 5 years
At least 1,000 Richmond high school students will receive free computer tablets this fall that are connected to the internet.
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City Hall computers secure
City Hall’s computer defenses appear to be successful. The City of Richmond’s computer specialists, it turns out, have dealt with and overcome hacking attempts and other computer challenges that have made headlines elsewhere, officials said.
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Get ready to rumble
The votes are in from Tuesday’s Democratic and Republican primaries.
