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  • 1 week ago | wric.com | Rolynn Wilson

    PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (WRIC) — Residents at a Prince George apartment complex said they are still in the dark nearly eight months after police launched an embezzlement investigation. Puddledock Place residents Kendra Tonic and Brooke Lindsay first reached out to 8News in September after they said they were facing eviction despite paying their rent every month. The two said the thought of being kicked out of their home confused them and they wondered where four months worth of rent payments went.

  • 3 weeks ago | wric.com | Rolynn Wilson

    RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond man claims he was scammed out of more than $400 after a rental scam. Richmond police are now looking for the person he says is responsible. Emmanuel Pierre-Louis told 8News he started his apartment hunt in the summer of 2024. After little luck, he said he almost gave up on the search.

  • 1 month ago | wric.com | Rolynn Wilson

    RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Chester resident Latasha Bradley said her experience trying to receive answers from the Virginia Employment Commission over the past four years has been overwhelming. Bradley lost her job in 2020 and said finding ways to get by after sending her children off to college was tough. “I was hurt. I was overwhelmed. I didn’t know how I was going to pay my bills, how I was going to make ends meet,” Bradley said.

  • 1 month ago | wric.com | Rolynn Wilson

    HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Just because you are receiving a sewer bill does not mean you are connected to a sewer line. Dyantha Epps tells 8News she learned this lesson the hard way — and it cost her thousands. According to Epps, in the late 1980s, she was driving along Laburnum Avenue when she spotted her dream home from miles away. “I wanted a brick ranch … everything on one floor, old-fashioned fireplace, and this was it,” she told 8News.

  • 1 month ago | wric.com | Rolynn Wilson

    RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The City of Richmond has corrected the 2023 property tax assessment for a former city resident after 8News asked what happened. Arthur Nowell told 8News he has experienced little to no maintenance or billing issues since owning his 2006 Honda and 2003 Buick. “Let me tell you something. Let me lay this on you. I must have been doing something right. I’ve got a credit score for over 800,” Nowell said.

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