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Mayor’s $836M proposed budget includes major pay hikes for public safety workers

Soaring property values and a continuing boom in new development in Richmond have given City Hall the money to propose major pay increases for police officers, firefighters and other city employees.

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Creation of police oversight panel among 3 critical items City Council to consider

Richmond City Council is heading to decision time on three significant items on its agenda—creation of a civilian review board to oversee police discipline, collective bargaining for employees and redistricting.

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Settlement details expected in death of South Side man involving police, ambulance personnel

A settlement is being worked out in the $25 million federal civil lawsuit alleging that two Richmond Police officers and two Richmond Ambulance Authority emergency medical personnel fatally smothered city resident Joshua L. Lawhon three years ago.

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Richmond Public Library unveils plan for $70M reno at Downtown facility

A $70 million facelift is being proposed for the Richmond Public Library’s Main Library in Downtown.

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Virginia’s HBCUs received more than $141M collectively from ARP

Big bucks. That’s what Virginia’s five historically Black colleges and universities have received from the federal American Rescue Plan.

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Dr. Dietra Trent to lead White House HBCU initiative

President Biden has tapped a Virginia education veteran to work with and advocate for historically Black colleges and universities in the halls of government.

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Volunteers to help RRHA families late with rent to file for state relief

Next week, scores of volunteers will be going door to door in public housing communities seeking to help 1,700 families avoid eviction because their rent is past due.

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Efforts advance for state, federal funding for historic Black cemeteries

The General Assembly, with bipartisan support, is preparing to beef up its efforts to financially support volunteers and organizations seeking to restore long-neglected Black cemeteries and to support efforts to preserve Black historical sites.

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John Marshall Justices poised to win another state basketball crown

Most high school basketball teams feel fortunate to have one or two stars. Richmond’s John Marshall High School features a galaxy.

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Faster legal sales of marijuana snuffed out; Black advocates cheer

The rush to start legal retail sales of marijuana next September has been snuffed out.

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Parade of champions

John Marshall teams headed to quarterfinals

They come at you in waves— so tall, so talented, so tenacious and so many.

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Richmond Planet license plate, with its symbol of Black empowerment, may be ready to go July 1

A tribute to Black empowerment will be on display on a Virginia license plate for the first time.

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City Council reaches consensus on redistricting map

The redistricting work of setting boundaries for the nine Richmond City Council and School Board districts appears to be complete.

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RPS plans for Fox Elementary to rise from ashes

A virtually identical Fox Elementary School building can rise from the ashes, without additional cost to Richmond Public Schools.

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Mayor: She said ‘yes’

Mayor Levar M. Stoney, one of Richmond’s most eligible bachelors, is about to hear wedding bells.

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Carol Swann-Daniels, a trailblazer integrating Richmond schools in 1960, dies at 73

Sixty-one years have passed since Carol Irene Swann, 12, and her friend, Gloria Jean Mead, 13, blasted an opening in the racially segregated schools of Richmond.

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8,000 potential gravesites identified at East End Cemetery using drone and hydrology mapping software

Finding unmarked graves in neglected cemeteries has always been a challenge.

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Bon Secours breaks ground on new $11M medical office building in East End

Coming soon: A new Bon Secours Mercy Health medical office building in the East End that will house up to 100 doctors, nurses and other staff and include space to provide group therapy for mentally ill addicts.

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Minor shifts expected in city redistricting

The majority of Richmond residents, as anticipated, will not experience any impact from the boundary changes made once every 10 years to City Council and School Board districts.

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State NAACP executive director resigns citing hail of allegations

The executive director of the Virginia State Conference NAACP has abruptly quit after 14 months.