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Naseem Roulack escaped from two Virginia Department of Corrections security officers at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in the Richmond area about 5:50 a.m. Saturday.

An 18-year-old student who’d just received his diploma at his high school graduation and his father were killed when a gunman opened fire as hundreds of people gathered in a park after the graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.

The suspected shooter is a 19-year-old who knew at least one of the victims, authorities said.

The shooting happened following a high school graduation ceremony.

Multiple injuries reported after shooting near Virginia Commonwealth campus in Richmond

Police say two people have been killed and five more wounded in a shooting after a high school graduation ceremony in Virginia’s capital. Police also said Tuesday night that a 19-year-old is in custody and will be charged with two counts of second-degree murder. The city’s interim police chief said the two who died were an 18-year-old male student who...

A Richmond school teacher has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in education but says that even with those credentials, she isn’t making enough to keep a roof over her head in the Bay Area.

A charming bed and breakfast on a private island is now looking for a pair of people to run the operation.

Democrats in a Richmond-based congressional district are voting to select a nominee for the seat held by the late Donald McEachin. The party is holding a firehouse primary Tuesday at eight voting sites throughout the state’s 4th Congressional District. The winner will be a heavy favorite in a Feb. 21 special election in a district where Democrats have a traditional...

The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War — removed its last city-owned Confederate statue on Monday, more than two years after it began to purge itself of what many saw as painful symbols of racial oppression.

An official says work to remove the final city-owned Confederate monument from Richmond, Virginia, should start this week. The statue is of Gen. A.P. Hill.

A Guatemalan immigrant who was identified by Richmond police as one of two suspects in a potential July 4 mass shooting plot has been sentenced to 5 1/2 months in prison for reentering the U.S. after deportation.

A month after some members of Congress urged Google to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in certain abortion-related search results, 17 Republican attorneys general warned the company that doing so could invite investigations and possible legal action.

Court documents say a tipster who warned police in Richmond, Virginia, about a potential mass shooting on July 4 told police the man who was planning the attack has connections to a drug gang that operates in Mexico and the U.S. A search warrant affidavit says the tipster identified the man as Rolman “Chapin” Balcarcel Ac. The tipster told police...

Richmond police say they received a tip that helped them thwart a mass shooting on the Fourth of July. Mayor Levar Stoney said officers “quietly investigated” to stop “what could have been a terrible day for the city of Richmond.”

The city of Richmond is planning to launch a gun buyback program this summer. Mayor Levar Stoney and other city officials are hoping the program will reduce the number of firearms on the street by allowing gun owners to surrender weapons they own in exchange for gift cards.

Weeks after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the state passed major legislation on guns with bipartisan support. Now after mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York, there are renewed calls for action on guns. NBC Miami’s Tony Pipitone explains.

Police say a 20-year-old man is dead and seven other young people are injured after gunfire erupted during a graduation party in central Virginia. Two separate fights between attendees of the mostly outdoor party in Chester were reported shortly before police received a call about shots fired Friday night. Chesterfield County Police gave an update on their investigation Saturday. Police...