Human Interest

An average day for a student in Professor O’Connor’s class consists of anything from editing audio interviews for their professor’s podcast to in-class…

The number of older adults becoming homeless is on the rise in the Richmond area and across the country. Expensive healthcare costs and unexpected crisis, can be enough to deplete the fixed income funds of older adults and even lead to them being homeless.

Shomi Patwary and his family took a leap of faith and found great success. Find out how the Daily Planet & Senior Connections are trying to help the vulnerable senior, homeless population. Follow a house calls only pediatrician as he treats young patients where they’re most comfortable - at home. Learn more about the now annual Something in the Water Music Festival founded by Pharrell Williams.

Since 2011 NPR Science Correspondent Shankar Vedantam has reported on human behavior and how research in that field helps listeners understand their actions. Before joining NPR, Vedantam was a columnist and reporter for the Washington Post writing a popular “Department of Human Behavior” column. VPM’s Dan Rosenthal sat down recently with Vedantam and ‘picked’ his brain about his popular podcast, HIDDEN BRAIN, his science background, and his interests as a child.

The Virginia State Crime Commission investigation into gun violence in Virginia has come up inconclusive.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will consider legislation this Wednesday to remove the 1982 deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. ERA supporters say this will clear a path for Virginia to become the 38th and final state needed to add the amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Watch the full interview with Vietnam veteran, Walter Allmon. Walter shares his experience serving in the Vietnam War, the effect it had on his family and his mental health. Find out how he discovered the path to feeling safe in the world again.

Watch the full interview with Tamekia Studivant a veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. She shares her story of life after the military and the challenges she faced adjusting to civilian life. In this interview Tamekia talks about how she reached a mental breaking point and wanted to take her own life but she finally found hope, peace and connection with help from the Richmond Vet Center.

One of the most lethal plane crashes in Virginia history was Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, which claimed 26 lives when, on a foggy, late-October night in 1959, it slammed into the Blue Ridge. A Natural Bridge-based folk artist recently led an expedition to return a stray piece of the wreckage, a wheel, back to the impact site.

WATCH NOW: Find out what fuels the creative energy of actor, author, singer, songwriter and jazz composer Zachary Lee Hines II. With a musical styling that echo's Roy Ayres he uses his gifts for community building with his band of 8 called FORTRESSES.