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5 days ago | vpm.org | Keyris Manzanares

On May 7 — one day after the Office of the State Inspector General announced the launch of a special review into Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center — a fight broke out among youth inside the facility, resulting in two teachers being transported to a local hospital. “Two teachers fell while trying to break up a fight among students in a classroom,” Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice spokesperson Melodie Martin said in an email to VPM News.

5 days ago | vpm.org | Ryan Murphy

This story was originally reported by WHRO. Port of Virginia CEO Stephen Edwards said the port is a “blueprint” for the future of the supply chain and will be able to weather the ongoing trade war with China better than others in the nation. New tariffs will certainly affect Virginia’s port, but Edwards doesn’t expect major changes as a result.

5 days ago | vpm.org | Annie Parnell

Richmond-based band Keep have been making dreamy, hard-hitting shoegaze rock since 2013, when drummer and vocalist Nick Yetka and guitarist Wes Smithers started the band out of a garage in Virginia Beach. Since then, they’ve released two albums and numerous EPs, and they’ve expanded their roster, adding bassist Will Fennessey in 2017 and guitarist Levi Douthit in 2020.

6 days ago | vpm.org | Adrienne McGibbon

More than one-third of Virginia’s rural hospitals are running at a loss. More than one-third of Virginia’s rural hospitals are operating in the red, and federal threats to Medicaid funding could put many hospitals that mainly serve residents in Southwest and Southside Virginia at risk. Virginia has 28 health care facilities that fit the definition of “rural hospitals.” They serve populations that are older, with higher rates of chronic illness and poverty.

1 week ago | vpm.org | Billy Shields

Plans to revamp the northern corridor along State Route 10 in Chesterfield County are moving forward, with county officials soliciting feedback from nearby residents at a meeting Tuesday night at the Beulah Recreational Center. The plan — which covers a 3.5-mile stretch of Iron Bridge Road from just north of Cogbill Road, near Fire Station 11, to State Route 288 — is still in its earliest stages, with no current estimates for the cost or when development would begin.