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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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The president of the student body at Virginia Commonwealth University is facing hundreds of insults and threats online after a Canadian conservative media outlet wrote about their anti-police political views. -
A virtual community meeting about a major road improvement project for Route 60 in Chesterfield County’s Midlothian District is scheduled for Thursday. If approved, it’ll be one of a few projects dubbed “innovative intersections.”
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People who knew her called Adele Johnson a graceful visionary. Johnson, executive director of the Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia, died from pancreatic cancer this week.
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Starting in the next few weeks, cicadas will reemerge from their underground growth cycle and begin the process of looking for a mate. This year, a group known as “Brood X” is set to reappear after 17 years. But will bug lovers here in the Richmond area be able to see them?
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In the heart of Union Hill sits a bright, pink fridge in the middle of the sidewalk with the words “FREE FOOD” painted across the door. The community fridge is part of a mutual aid project designed to help people help each other through the health crisis.
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After a 20-month investigation, Virginia Beach officials say they found no motive for the mass shooting that killed 12 people at the city’s municipal center in May 2019.
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Volunteers and community members planted 50 trees at Swansboro Park on Saturday. They dug holes, spread mulch and watered the new additions around the mostly empty field.
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President Biden is giving the first prime-time address of his presidency to mark one year of the coronavirus pandemic, a day after Congress passed a massive relief package. More than 500,000 people have died from the virus in the U.S.
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Starting today, drivers in the West End of Richmond may notice a new traffic light on Grove Avenue near St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Its goal is to cut down on traffic crashes and make it safer for people to cross.
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Advocates have created a new website that informs workers of how to best protect themselves against wage theft, which experts say has reached "epidemic" proportions in Virginia.
