Jennifer Blake
Morning Reporter at WWBT-TV (Richmond, VA)
Reporter for 12 On Your Side in Richmond, VA Born and raised in the 804 Radford University Graduate Former WBTW reporter/MMJ/weekend anchor, WNCT producer
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Aug 13, 2024 |
nbc12.com | Jennifer Blake
HANOVER, Va. (WWBT) - The fight continues in Hanover against the Wegmans Distribution Center. Members of the historic Brown Grove Community, the Hanover NAACP, their attorney, and others voiced their frustration Tuesday morning at the Brown Grove Baptist Church, right across the street from the Wegmans Distribution Center.
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Aug 12, 2024 |
nbc12.com | Jennifer Blake
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - The FDA just approved a new product to help reverse anaphylaxis without needing an EpiPen. It’s called “Neffy,” and it’s the first nasal spray to administer epinephrine, or adrenaline. The approval comes after four studies were done with 175 healthy adults, according to the FDA. A part of the approval is aiming to make it easier for the drug to be given to children, without the fear of poking them with a needle. The drug can be given to anybody who weighs over 66 pounds.
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Aug 4, 2024 |
nbc29.com | Jennifer Blake
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - New data from the AAA Research Foundation shows that more drivers were engaging in dangerous behavior behind the wheel, resulting in deadly crashes. The number of deadly crashes in 2022 – met a 15-year high for Virginia. “It’s not just one thing that happened, it’s many many many things that came together, a lot of them involving drivers making bad decisions.
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Jul 30, 2024 |
nbc12.com | Jennifer Blake
CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) - The family and friends of the 24-year-old Chesterfield woman, Ja’Nya Richardson, who was shot and killed inside of her apartment at Birchwood at Boulders Sunday morning, shared her legacy on Tuesday. “She was a friend I could go to for a laugh, for a cry, a good time ... sometimes we could just sit around and be bored together,” Richardson’s best friend, Derneasha Pitman, recalled. “She had her whole life ahead of her,” she said sadly.
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Jul 26, 2024 |
nbc12.com | Jennifer Blake
HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - An 11-year-old boy from Henrico is in custody for threatening to blow up schools in multiple states and threatening mass shootings. Police say a week before school was over back in May, that 11-year-old made more than 20 calls to schools throughout the country claiming schools would get bombed or that a teacher had been shot. Many of those calls to Florida schools, and now, authorities are calling for his extradition.
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RT @12OnYourSide: A former Henrico Police officer will be sentenced today for the 2022 murders of his wife and stepdaughter. Story: http…
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 A teen driver has been charged with “involuntary manslaughter, reckless driving, driving after curfew, driving with too many passengers” in the death of 15 year old Wyatt Fowler. https://t.co/IegrqP3UZo
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