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Annual Southeast Community Day Parade to go on with or without permit, organizer says

Newport News has ordered the cancellation of the annual Southeast Community Day Parade that an area chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has staged since 1991 — but the SCLC plans to defy the city and stage it anyway.

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Police reform is major component of VLBC’s agenda for special General Assembly session

A bevy of proposals that could make it easier to sue police for using excess force, create civilian oversight of police complaints and simplify the process of expunging criminal records are floating into a special session of the General Assembly that is scheduled to open Tuesday, Aug. 18.

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City Electoral Board certifies 6 mayoral candidates, 22 for City Council and 19 for School Board

Incumbent Mayor Levar M. Stoney will have five opponents as he seeks a second term.

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Virginia Supreme Court halts most evictions through Sept. 7

Thousands of families in Richmond and across the state are heaving a sigh of relief after a sharply divided Virginia Supreme Court temporarily halted local general district courts from issuing a writ of eviction for failure to pay rent — though not for other reasons like property damage.

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2-day turnaround time for some COVID-19 tests

Virginia’s state lab is cranking out results from coronavirus tests in two to three days — far faster than private labs across the state where it can take two to three weeks, and sometimes longer, to get results.

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CAHN buys South Side medical building

The nonprofit Capital Area Health Network is the new owner of the Manchester Medical Building at 101 Cowardin Ave., previously one of the area’s largest African-American-owned medical office buildings in the city.

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VSU’s Jesse Vaughan wins regional Emmys and lifetime achievement award

Jesse Vaughan has directed such films as “Juwanna Mann” and “The Last Punch.” And in recent years, he has turned Virginia State University into a film powerhouse in the creation of commercials, documentaries and short films.

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New deal helps pave way for Soulidifly's new work

Richmond’s largest African-American film and media company now has access to financial support for its efforts to make films showcasing events and stories involving women and people of color.

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Lee statue to remain under new 90-day injunction

The statue of slavery-defending Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee will continue to loom over Monument Avenue for at least 90 more days.

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More COVID-19 cases reported at city jail; Henrico cases subsiding

A few more cases of COVID-19 have been reported at the Richmond Justice Center in the past week, as the Henrico County Jail has reported an end to the epidemic at its Parham Road facility.

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Pandemic puts city assessments, financial picture on hold

New valuations of Richmond homes and businesses have yet to be issued.

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Small nonprofit makes big impact on lives, health of people

Josselyn Aguirre-Cabrera went to see a doctor about her nagging headaches and learned she had diabetes.

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Woodland Cemetery sale completed to nonprofit Evergreen Restoration Foundation

A new owner has taken over the 104-year-old Woodland Cemetery, the final resting place of tennis great and humanitarian Arthur R. Ashe Jr., celebrated Richmond pastor John Jasper of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church and thousands of others.

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Police, others stymied by outside agitators at demonstrations

Are “outside agitators” and white supremacists infiltrating the Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice and police brutality?

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‘Defunding police’ rejected

Richmond City Council kills proposal to examine police funding in social, mental health and community services and move the money to other departments

No to reducing the Richmond Police budget to assuage demonstrators’ demands to “defund police.”

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Confederate icons swept from Virginia Capitol building

After 88 years, the statue of Confederate traitor Robert E. Lee is gone from the State Capitol.

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2nd complaint filed against Judge Cavedo

Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley B. Cavedo is facing a second complaint to the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission seeking his removal from the bench based on the judge’s efforts to bar the city and state from removing Confederate statues.

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New policies to help RRHA tenants

With nearly two in five residents of public housing in Richmond behind in paying rent and/or electricity charges, the city’s housing authority is pushing policy changes to avoid mass evictions.

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Slave memorial and museum gets jumpstart under mayor’s plan

A long-stalled effort to develop a museum and memorial park in Shockoe Bottom to tell the story of enslaved people in Richmond seems to have gained fresh momentum, but that could quickly evaporate.