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The Creative ReUse Center's volunteers altered dresses and suits for the LGBTQ+ prom.
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Screenshot by NPR/Electronic ArtsCritic Linda Holmes has been playing The Sims since the early 2000s.
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Nick McNamara / WHRO/For nearly 60 years, this office has explored the nature of consciousness.
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Matt Slocum/APIf a judge orders Google to sell Chrome, it could dramatically upend the multibillion-dollar online search business.
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Nick McNamara/WHROThe project takes donated firearms and converts them into garden tools.
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KD Toole/BPR NewsBlue Ridge Public Radio compiled a list of more than 35 organizations providing relief in the area.
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Hulton Archive/Keystone/Getty ImagesThe superstition of Friday the 13th isn't as old as you think. Here are some of the potential origins of unlucky days around the world.
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Leahruth Jemilo/The collector's response has stayed with Leahruth Jemilo ever since.
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Chesterfield CountyThe county is asking the public to choose from four animal finalists.
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Jeff Roberson/The Associated PressOn the Home Cooked podcast, Olivia Weeks explores the drug’s trajectory during the past 50 years.
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Thursday, November 11, marked the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial. State and local officials, along with Veterans from all branches of the military, were on hand, including a few from WWII and the Korean War to mark the occasion.
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Richmond residents are upset about the surprise removal of traffic calming measures that helped pedestrians cross the street safely. The curb extensions were also used to add plants and trees to beautify the business district.
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President Biden addresses the nation after the U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war. More than 123,000 civilians were flown out by the U.S. and its partners as part of the evacuation efforts, and all U.S. service members are now out of the country.
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Our podcast on refugee resettlement wrapped this time last year. We checked back in with Hamidullah Noori, a poet and restaurant-owner, and our host, Ahmed Badr, to hear about the big changes they've experienced during the pandemic.
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The rules around having backyard chickens in residential districts in Chesterfield County could be getting tweaked.
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The Olympic games start Friday, July 23 in Tokyo, Japan. One athlete to keep an eye on is rugby player and Richmond-born Cheta Emba. Emba grew up playing basketball and soccer at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School and continued with soccer at Harvard. She discovered rugby while cross-training and fell in love with the sport. She’s now one of the leading players on the U.S. Women’s Olympic Team.
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Five years in, organizers with Stonewall Sports - an LGBTQ-centered sports league - say diversity initiatives are making sports better and more accessible.
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Construction is underway to install a “green street” in Southside Richmond. It’s one of many environmental initiatives taking place in the Bellemeade community, although long-term success rests on maintenance and effective community engagement.
