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Millions struggle to pay AC bills in heat waves

Federal aid reaches only a fraction

Bobbie Boyd is in a losing battle against near triple-digit temperatures in Northwest Arkansas.

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Built out or left out?

‘Just because we’re public housing (residents) does not make us any less’

After 69 years, Marilyn Olds, president of both the Richmond Tenant Organization and the Creighton Court Tenant Council, has bid farewell to her home in Creighton Court.

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Six key points from the scathing report on Minneapolis Police after George Floyd’s killing

The Justice Department on June 16 issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis Police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd’s killing because of inadequate oversight and an unwieldy process for investigating complaints.

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Simone Biles wins a record 8th U.S. gymnastics title a full decade after her first

Simone Biles is not going to explain herself. Part of this is by design. Part of this is because she simply can’t.

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Love Stories

The Free Press proudly presents its annual Valentine’s Day feature that shares the Love Stories of five Richmond area couples.

The line into the bookstore wrapped around the building. Angela had been standing in line for nearly an hour. Out of nowhere comes this bow-legged guy wearing a cowboy hat, suede coat, a tank top and Timberland boots…in AUGUST.

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Standing ovation

Let us cheer Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity for standing up to bigotry.

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Football momentum building in the East End

Jeremy Pruitt teaches chemistry in the classroom and, as football coach, seems to have found the right formula at Armstrong High.

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Sacred burial site to be marked by mural

A mural with a message embedded in large red, black and green stripes will soon mark an historic but largely unknown Black cemetery in North Side.

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Embiid drops 70, breaks Wilt’s record

Erasing Wilt Chamberlain’s name from any record book is a rare feat, but Joel Embiid has done it.

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Family of Irvo Otieno agrees to $8.5M settlement

The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the state and the county and sheriff whose deputies were involved in restraining him. A judge approved the out-of-court wrongful death settlement Tuesday, according to an agreement filed in Henrico County Circuit Court.

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Va. Dems call on Justice Department to investigate removals from voter rolls

Virginia’s Democratic Congressional delegation has asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate reports that eligible Virginia voters were removed from the voter rolls by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration, and to determine whether any violations of the Voting Rights Act or other federal laws were committed.

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Stoney demands DOJ investigation

Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney doesn’t believe that a “coding error” is the reason 3,400 voters were removed from Virginia’s voter rolls, as stated by Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin last week.

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Virginia Lawmakers decry USPS Inspector report on region's processing center

An audit conducted by the Postal Service’s inspector general found significant problems at a new regional processing facility in Virginia, including water-damaged mail left unprocessed for months and a worker asleep at a forklift.

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Panthers go cold in Indy

NBA superstar Stephen Curry gave Virginian Union University its locker-room pregame speech, but unfortunately he wasn’t allowed to play for VUU.

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The 2024 Virginia General Assembly begins and ends with record number of Black legislators

History was made last November with the election of a record number of Black candidates to the Virginia General Assembly.

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Woman says former executive who defrauded city also fooled her

Sharon B. Holmes is relieved that a retired senior executive in the Richmond Department of Public Works is going to prison for engineering a scheme that ripped off the department for $600,000.

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Collapse of NBA, NHL arena deal prompts recriminations, allegations of impropriety in Va.

The majority owner of the Washington Wizards and Capitals, Ted Leonsis, told a crowd in December that he had “goosebumps” at the thought of moving his NBA and NHL teams from Washington to Virginia, “if all goes as planned.”

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VCU anti-war protest attracts hundreds, ends in 13 arrests

Six students at Virginia Commonwealth University were among the 13 people arrested by police Monday evening on VCU’s campus outside the James Branch Cabell Library during an antiwar, pro-Palestine protest and encampment focused on the ongoing conflict in Gaza, Palestine.

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Personality: Joye B. Moore

2023 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic Region 2023 winner for Best Peach Pie in the Country by American Pie Council

Joye B. Moore’s recipe for sweet potato pie was handed down from the women in her family going back to her great-great-great grandmother, Susan Mae Howell.

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City residents’ delinquent taxes pile up

Thousands of Richmond residents are ignoring City Hall tax bills on cars, trucks, boats, trailer homes, recreational vehicles and other such personal property.