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  • 1 week ago | wtvr.com | Tracy Sears

    HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Running down a corridor at Richmond International Airport, 4-year-old Cricket Gardner giggles as she hurries along with her family to catch a flight to Florida. This is the moment the Gardner family has been waiting and wishing for, a victory lap for their youngest daughter and finally some vacation time together as a family. “You gonna see some dolphins? Show me the dolphins. What about the turtles?” signs Cricket’s mother, Dominga, to her excited daughter.

  • 3 weeks ago | wtvr.com | Tracy Sears

    RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond City Council approved a $3 billion budget Monday night in a 6-2 vote, increasing investments in schools, affordable housing and government efficiency. "The annual budget is a product of hard work, shared priorities, dedication, and commitment to responsible governance," Mayor Danny Avula said.

  • 1 month ago | wtvr.com | Tracy Sears

    COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — A 5-year-old boy from Colonial Heights who battled leukemia had his dream come true when Make-A-Wish Greater Virginia sent him to meet his favorite baseball team, the San Diego Padres. Owen Frantz, now cancer-free after being diagnosed with leukemia at age 2, has been a baseball fan seemingly since birth. "He was always running around with a ball and a glove. For a while, whenever he would play baseball, he called it playing Padres," father Andrew Frantz said.

  • 1 month ago | wtvr.com | Tracy Sears

    RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday that more than 500 people have been arrested as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and organized crime since the establishment of the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force.

  • 1 month ago | wtvr.com | Tracy Sears

    RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond residents and advocates packed a City Council meeting on Monday night, speaking up about the need for improved living conditions in mobile home parks. In March, Richmond Mayor Danny Avula toured Rudd’s mobile home park on the city’s Southside to hear resident concerns and to get a firsthand look at dilapidated conditions that many owners say they were living in.

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