A GoFundMe has been launched to support Baby Saphire and the family of Johnnita Russell, who was killed the night before what would have been her 34th birthday. Just nine days earlier, she had given birth to her daughter, who has spent her first weeks...
I hope you all planted your potatoes last weekend, because spring is here, and it's about time! We're all ready for the sun to shine on us again, and as this week's Missed Connections makes clear, a lot of people were out, about, and checking all the beautiful people out this past weekend, both at Shamrock the Block and other fine outdoor...
Building on a package of new laws to reduce evictions, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday that he has approved creation of a program to help low-income tenants facing eviction. The Eviction Diversion Pilot Program will begin in Richmond, Hampton, Petersburg and Danville in July 2020. The program is the result of identical bills sponsored by...
Before this St. Patrick's Day weekend, dig into some census data showing the presence of Irish ancestry around the Commonwealth. Irish eyes are smiling in Virginia. From Lee County to Louisa, Rockbridge to Rappahannock, Virginia is home to about 790,000 people with Irish heritage, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is about 9.5 percent of...
Farting in Walmart may not be the best look, but ratting someone out in the Missed Connections might just be the worst one. Can you imagine the arrogance it takes to attempt to spin that into a meet-cute? Well, if you read this week's missed connections, you won't have to. You will get some entertaining reads, though, and not just the one where...
Winter is taking its sweet time about drawing to a close, and from the look of this week's Missed Connections, the times are hard out there. We all know about people who come to this section looking for companionship, but when you have to hit Craigslist just to ask for somewhere to take a shower, well... things are getting pretty desperate....
If you're seeking wisdom this week, you might want to check out the Missed Connections, where we've learned that people don't change -- they just keep on using an anonymous internet service to tell the world about their crushes on customer service employees. For example, this week we've got employees from libraries and office parks, a change from...
Working together, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and the Library of Virginia are making it easier than ever for researchers to study the history of enslaved African-Americans in Virginia. The Virginia Museum of History & Culture (WMHC) and the Library of Virginia (LVA) are joining forces, merging their resources to create a...
Another Valentine's Day has come and gone, but judging by this week's jam-packed Missed Connections, a lot of people out there are still looking for love in all the wrong places. It's been a tough February for some of us too -- especially Tommie the pit bull, whose tragic story touched us all. Others have wrecked cars to deal with, and that's...
One of Shekinah Mitchell’s favorite memories in Richmond is walking out of her favorite corner store 10 years ago and serendipitously meeting the man who would become her husband. Today, that corner store no longer exists. Mitchell’s story is part of a larger pattern that policy experts said is becoming increasingly common in Richmond and around...
