Billy Shields
Multimedia Journalist, Chesterfield CountyBilly Shields has decades of journalism experience in television, radio and print. Before joining VPM he worked as an MMJ for TV news outlets in Montreal, Canada and for newspapers in Mexico, Miami and the Caribbean. He has won awards for a retrospective on the Oka Crisis and investigations into questionable sewage contracts in the Virgin Islands and the gray market of lawsuit loans in Miami.
Shields earned a bachelor's from Kenyon College and a master's in Latin American Studies and Journalism from the University of Florida. He's a member of the National Press Photographers Association, a former trainer with Journalists for Human Rights and a Canadian citizen.
He was born and raised in Richmond and began his career as a cub reporter for the Tidewater Review in West Point, Virginia.
Email Billy: [email protected]
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Mervin Daugherty led the division through the pandemic. -
The county is asking the public to choose from four animal finalists.
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The county is currently trying to locate living descendants.
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Standardized vestibules are being installed across the county.
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Updated 2:35 p.m., June 19: It's coming down to provisional and absentee ballots.
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One professor called the decision “shocking,” a state senator described it as “illegitimate,” and car dealership representatives welcomed the move.
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Beginning next year, Virginia will follow federal emissions regulations.
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These pups are the offspring of resident capys Flora and Ocho.
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Several businesses have cropped up to cater to the tastes of the migrants who’ve settled there.
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Restorative justice is a practice that originated in the 1970s. But how does it work, and why is it being used? Many agencies turn to it as a practice in an effort to reduce punitive measures.
