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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · Jun 4

Where your story lives ... richmond.com/story

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 13 h

RRHA hired firm to pay Gilpin residents to attend City Council meeting, support Gilpin transfer richmond.com/news/local/gov…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Residents were paid $20 by Venable Community Services to attend a June 9 meeting and show public support for the proposed transfer of Gilpin to the Richmond Development Corporation.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 15 h

Benedictine baseball coach Sean Ryan stepping down after 22 years, five state titles richmond.com/sports/high-sc…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Benedictine baseball coach Sean Ryan has stepped down after 22 years at the helm.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 7 h

Federal investigation finds repeated safety problems in organ transplantation richmond.com/news/local/bus…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. A federal official criticized the Richmond-based United Network for Organ Sharing's efforts to investigate an event in which a patient woke up after he was prepped for organ donation.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 8 h

US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports richmond.com/sports/other/o…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. The committee is citing an executive order from President Donald Trump. The order, signed in February, threatens to cut funding for organizations allowing transgender athletes in women’s sports.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 10 h

Judge dismisses lawsuits seeking $26 million from Richmond Public Schools richmond.com/news/local/edu…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. The suits emerged from the 2023 Huguenot High School graduation shooting in Monroe Park.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 10 h

Pedestrian killed along Bells Road in Richmond richmond.com/news/local/cri…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. A vehicle hit and killed a woman who was walking in Bells Road in Richmond on Monday night.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 11 h

Hanover man charged with rape, sodomy of a child under 13 years old richmond.com/news/local/cri…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Jerald-Dean Edward Miller, 29, reportedly also owns a children's party venue in Hanover County.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 11 h

ACC implementing injury reports for upcoming season richmond.com/sports/college…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Commissioner Jim Phillips announced Tuesday morning that the conference will implement player availability reporting policies for football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball for league games...

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 11 h

Petersburg man identified as body found in Appomattox River richmond.com/news/local/cri…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Investigators believe that Jose Ulloa was the man who fell into the water on July 8.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 12 h

Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76 richmond.com/life-entertain…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who became the throaty, growling voice of heavy metal, has died.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 13 h

Speaker Johnson refuses to allow Epstein vote as House set to recess early richmond.com/news/nation-wo…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. House Speaker Mike Johnson's stance seemed unlikely to satisfy many Republicans who are threatening to support a bipartisan bill to pry information from the Justice Department.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 18 h

Funding for RPS library books is cut nearly in half. Officials look to private donors. richmond.com/news/local/edu…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. RPS funding for books will drop from $270,120 to $140,320 — $60,000 less than the amount budgeted in 2018, when the district had five fewer elementary school libraries to stock.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 19 h

6 must-try Hot Tomato Summer dishes in Richmond richmond.com/life-entertain…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. It’s Hot Tomato Summer, sponsored by Duke’s Mayonnaise. The competition encourages eateries to construct a Duke’s Mayo-infused tomato dish.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 20 h

Best restaurants in the Fan richmond.com/life-entertain…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. The Fan neighborhood is a hot spot for some of the best dining in Richmond. Here are the best restaurants in the Fan from the RTD 100: The 100 best

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 20 h

Times-Dispatch Athlete of the Year: A future Florida Gator headlines Nos. 6 - 10 richmond.com/sports/high-sc…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. The Times Dispatch's sports team spent time deliberating on the best athletes from the 804.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 20 h

Some Virginians worry about whether they'll lose health coverage richmond.com/news/local/gov…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the number of Americans without health insurance will increase by 16 million by 2034 between Medicaid cuts and the end of expanded Obamacare tax

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · 20 h

Northern Virginia economy looks beyond federal jobs to AI, tech richmond.com/news/state-reg…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Northern Virginia business leaders are scrambling to shift the region's economy away from the federal government to fully embrace artificial intelligence and other emerging high-tech industries.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · Jul 21

AstraZeneca picks Virginia for multibillion-dollar manufacturing site richmond.com/news/state-reg…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. The company said the Virginia facility "would be AstraZeneca’s largest single manufacturing investment in the world." The proposed site was not disclosed.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · Jul 21

Federal judge gives ex-officer almost 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid richmond.com/news/nation-wo…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. A federal judge sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer Monday to almost three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid.

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Richmond Times-Dispatch@RTDNEWS · Jul 21

Body pulled from Appomattox River is second this month richmond.com/news/local/art…

RTDNEWS's tweet card. Chesterfield Fire & EMS dive crews pulled the body from the water at around 2:45 p.m., when he was pronounced dead at the scene.

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