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VSU board extends president's contract to June 2024

Dr. Makola M. Abdullah, the president of Virginia State University, has received a three-year contract extension.

West End Dialysis Center responds

Re “ ‘I was handed a death sentence’: Advocates help NAACP stalwart Ora Lomax receive life-saving dialysis after a Henrico center moves to terminate her treatment,” Free Press Feb. 1-3 edition:

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Grade snafu flunks ‘A’ student

Michael Donovan was surprised when his son brought home a report card for the first nine weeks at Lucille M. Brown Middle School that showed the sixth-grader had an F in Spanish.

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Speaking Spirit Ministries says praise the Lord, pass the popcorn

Go to church and stay for a movie. That’s now possible at a satellite sanctuary of the independent Speaking Spirit Ministries.

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Bishop Charles A. West starting new church in Henrico County

Bishop Charles A. West, who ran the Operation Streets youth basketball program in Richmond for more than 20 years, is starting over with a new church.

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City voter registrar’s office may be moving to North Side

The headquarters for voting in Richmond soon could move out of City Hall.

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RRHA still fixing heating systems

The Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority has restored heat to 318 apartments, but still has 93 units in various public housing communities to complete, according to an update released last week.

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New proposed map for House of Delegates boundaries expected Dec. 7

A proposed map showing revamped House of Delegates districts is expected to be released Friday, Dec. 7, according to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia.

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City, police officer ask for $30M lawsuit to be dismissed

City Hall and Richmond Police Officer Benjamin Frazer are asking the Richmond Circuit Court to throw out a $30 million lawsuit that a Richmond woman filed after being handcuffed during a police traffic stop.

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Funding extended for CHIP

Nine million American children — including 68,000 in Virginia — will continue to have government-supported health insurance for three more months.

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‘Transition by the Slave Trail Commission was not because of dysfunction’

Re “Defunct: Richmond Slave Trail Commission, formed in 1998 by City Council to advocate for educating people about the enslaved and the city’s long and sordid history with slavery, no longer exists,” Free Press Oct. 14-16 edition:

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Receptions, other events mark Mayor Stoney’s public inauguration

Congratulations and handshakes were the hallmarks of Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney’s ceremonial public installation into the city’s chief executive post.

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Study finds info on students’ emotional and physical disabilities left off referrals to cops, courts

Richmond area school divisions appear to be flouting federal and state regulations by withholding critical information when they refer special education students to law enforcement departments and the courts for serious misconduct, according to a new study.

Grave parity

We were heartened by Free Press staff writer Jeremy M. Lazarus’ front page report published in the Feb. 23-25 edition on the Virginia General Assembly approving funds to maintain gravesites in East End and Evergreen cemeteries.

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Pulse driving businesses down

Transit construction has hurt Downtown establishments

By Jeremy M. Lazarus Richmond City Councilwoman Kim B. Gray has been getting an earful from restaurants and businesses along Broad Street that have seen customer numbers fall and revenues shrink during the 20-month construction of Pulse, GRTC’s new bus rapid transit system

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Wilder sues VCU president, dean of school named for him

He may be 86, but former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is showing Virginia Commonwealth University he is not to be trifled with.

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Work begins in Creighton Court

Work is finally underway to restore heat in 12 buildings in the Creighton Court public housing community, a failure of a basic service that has come to symbolize the deteriorating state of Richmond’s “public housing stock.”

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Recount expected in 3 House of Delegates races

Democrats remain two seats short of taking control of the 100-member Virginia House of Delegates based on official local counts completed Tuesday.

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Church of Christ Pastor Joseph H. Brown dies at age 85

One of Richmond’s longest serving ministers, Pastor Joseph Hugh Brown, has died. Pastor Brown, who served the Church of Christ for more than 50 years, died Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. He was 85.

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Richmond Public Schools moves out of 14th floor in City Hall

Richmond Public Schools is starting to give up floors in City Hall.