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Hopewell elementary school builds memorial garden for P’Aris Moore
HOPEWELL, Va. (WWBT) -A Hopewell elementary school is building a memorial garden for a student who died in 2022. The P’Aris Moore memorial garden at Harry E. James Elementary honors the third grader’s life. Her mom says the 8-year-old loved playing outside with friends and making TikToks. Moore...
Former nurse still works in healthcare after years of stealing opioids from patients
All the details in our Health Safety stories come from publicly available Final Orders, Consent Orders, Orders of Suspension and other documents from the Virginia Department of Health Professionals. For more information, see the Editor’s note below the story. The first time Mary Katherine Story-Haulton was caught pilfering drugs...
Petersburg nears completion of million-dollar park renovation project
After around two years of work, the city of Petersburg is almost done revamping parks and outdoor spaces across the city to rejuvenate community spirit and provide modern recreational facilities for residents to enjoy.
Mr. May: Shellenberger Sends Virginia To Final Four via 2OT Winner vs. Hopkins
TOWSON, Md. — The Virginia lacrosse team broke into three separate celebrations in the seconds after its 11-10, double-overtime victory over Johns Hopkins in an NCAA Quarterfinal before 9,642 fans on Sunday at Unitas Stadium. The vast majority of players ran to grad student Connor Shellenberger, whose goal with...
2024 South Richmond Rotary Speakers Forum
RICHMOND, Va. -- Bere Todd, President of the South Richmond Rotary Club and Mike Spraker, CEO of the Speakers Forum stopped by the show to share more about the South Richmond Rotary Speakers Forum. It’s happening June 7th at 7:30 pm. The South Richmond Rotary Club is located at...
Surry debuts driving tour highlighting Black, indigenous history
In 1860, a year before the start of the Civil War, over a third of Surry County’s African American population had already been freed from slavery under a 78-year-old, circa-1782 Virginia General Assembly law. It’s not something Bacon’s Castle District Supervisor Walter Hardy Jr. learned from a textbook as a product of the county’s public […]
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