Richmond

Family, friends and other mourners gathered Wednesday at a Virginia church to remember Irvo Otieno at a funeral service, celebrating his life and calling for mental health care and policing reforms.

A unique program in Richmond is helping adults with dementia get out of the house, make friends, and do art.

For more than a decade Virginia’s Museum of History and Culture in Richmond has offered teacher training seminars. This summer the museum is paying teachers to participate.

When Enrichmond dissolved, community groups lost access to their money. They estimate hundreds of thousands of donated dollars just disappeared. Months later they still haven’t gotten answers.

Mayo Island is 15 acres and sits in the middle of the James, in the middle of Richmond. For 300 years it’s been privately owned. Home to sawmills, boat clubs and even for a time a baseball stadium. Today almost half of the island is asphalt, after years of being a trucking depo.

It took just minutes to free the statue of Gen. A. P. Hill from the base Monday morning before it was moved to a bed of tires on a flatbed truck.

Today, politicians and local leaders have thrown their support behind a memorial park and museum here. But two decades ago, this history was buried under a parking lot.

Virginia may be about to roll the dice on casino gambling. But who will benefit the most?

Mallory Noe-Payne spoke with the two New York Times reporters who broke that story last week.

Many community members who were a part of reclaiming the Lee Monument site in the summer of 2020 aren’t pleased with the designs.