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City of Richmond announces new Director of Economic Development

June 11, 2019 RVAHub Staff

Mayor Levar M. Stoney on Monday announced the appointment of Leonard Sledge as the city’s next director of Economic Development.

Four West End swimmers headed to Olympic trials

June 10, 2019 RVAHub Staff

Zoe Dixon, Josephine Fuller and Megan Pulley – all of Henrico – and Grace Sheble of Chesterfield each qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for swimming, which will be held June 21-28 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Governor Northam sets July 9th for date of special session to address gun violence in Virginia

June 10, 2019 RVAHub Staff

Gun control measures such as universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, suppressors, and bump stocks, and other regulations could be considered.

Governor Ralph Northam calls special session of General Assembly to address gun violence

June 5, 2019 Trevor Dickerson

“No one should go to work, to school, or to church wondering if they will come home,” said Governor Northam. “But that is what our society has come to, because we fail to act on gun violence… I will be asking for votes and laws, not thoughts and prayers.”

Historic Evergreen Cemetery awarded UNESCO designation

June 5, 2019 RVAHub Staff

Neglected, overgrown, and tucked away deep in the woods of the East End of Richmond surrounded by two landfills, Historic Evergreen Cemetery was easy to miss. That is destined to change now that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded this sacred site official designation as “a site of memory associated with the Slave Route Project”—one of the first in the world.

Henrico Police seek missing senior citizen last seen Sunday evening in West End

May 20, 2019 RVAHub Staff

UPDATE: The missing senior has been found safe and reunited with her family.

Virginia’s immigration court backlog among largest in nation

May 16, 2019 Capital News Service

Virginia has the third-longest wait times in the country for immigration cases, and the sixth-largest immigration court backlog in the nation, behind states like New York, Texas, and California.

As hospitals monitor drugs, opioid deaths see decline

May 15, 2019 Capital News Service

Virginia hospitals are monitoring painkiller prescriptions more closely and taking other steps to curb the opioid epidemic, and the efforts may be paying off: Drug overdoses in Virginia have dropped for the first time in six years.

INTERACTIVE: Mortality rates for breast cancer reflect health disparities

May 14, 2019 Capital News Service

About 7,000 women in Virginia are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Certain women — including African Americans and rural residents — are more likely than others to die from the disease. That may be because they are diagnosed with breast cancer at an advanced stage when the disease is harder to treat.

Study: Black women far more likely than whites to die giving birth

May 9, 2019 Capital News Service

For black women, childbirth can be a death sentence. African American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

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