Dog Found Dumped Behind Dumpster With ‘Tiny Blanket’ Just Before Christmas
Found weeks before Christmas behind a dumpster, Loca is now safe, and hoping to be adopted soon, a rescue director told Newsweek.
Local organization feeds students missing school meals over break
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Hope for Learning is distributing food to students and families over winter break, saying no one should go hungry during this time of year. “They’re going to miss ten meals a week, free breakfast and free lunch for the next two weeks. And so that’s a big impact on those families who struggle to...
She faced hunger as a child. Now, she feeds others on Christmas morning.
Facing both hunger and homelessness as a kid, Samantha Coles hoped to eventually help those that faced a similar situation. Now, she feeds people at a Salvation Army shelter on Christmas morning.
6 people displaced after apartment fire in Chesterfield
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) - Six people were displaced after a fire on Christmas morning in Chesterfield County. Fire and EMS crews were called to the blaze around 6 a.m. in the 15200 block of Braeton Drive. “The first firefighters that arrived on scene found fire on the balcony of a...
‘Headed down a dangerous path’: Va. CO warned leaders of ‘unsafe’ conditions months before...
RICHMOND, Va. — Five months before a fatal attack on a prison guard, a lieutenant at River North Correctional Center wrote an email to top leadership at the Virginia Department of Corrections, warning that a crisis was just around the corner. The email was sent by former VADOC Lieutenant...
Man injured in Christmas Eve shooting in Hopewell
One person is injured after a shooting on Christmas Eve, according to the Hopewell Police Department.
Hopewell Councilor Yolanda Stokes dies at 64 one year into her term
Hopewell City Councilor Yolanda Wyche Stokes has died. Stokes, a former Hopewell voter registrar who was in her first term as Ward 6 representative, died Dec. 24, according to an online obituary from James M. Wilkerson Funeral Establishment in Petersburg. The cause of death was not given, but Stokes had been ill for...
Christmas Eve bike ride in Richmond brings community together
For anyone who may not feel full of Christmas spirit, a local cycling group wanted to make sure no one had to spend their holiday alone.
Postal service stands ready for holiday crush
The Richmond regional processing and distribution center gets packages from all over the country, and it can process more than half a million of them each day according to spokesman Philip Bogenberger. “It’s running at full capacity, so the investments that we’ve made in that facility – you know we’re...
Group keeping student fed over winter break
Hope for Learning is distributing food to students and families over winter break, saying no one should go hungry during this time of year.
