
Metro Richmond Zoo welcomes a baby hippopotamus for Christmas
The Metro Richmond Zoo is leaning into the popular holiday tune “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” to announce a birth.

The Metro Richmond Zoo is leaning into the popular holiday tune “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” to announce a birth.
A 22-year-old driver led Virginia State Police on a pursuit after an initial stop on Interstate 95 southbound in Stafford County.

White working-class evangelicals voted en masse for Donald Trump to give a platform to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to call them “lazy,” “mediocre” and “retarded.”
Remember the 27-second press conference with Jim Larrañaga after Miami had lost 60-38 to the UVA Basketball team back in February?
Augusta County Administrator Tim Fitzgerald made the call on Nov. 15 to terminate the contract with a Roanoke-based consultant that the county had hired in 2023.
A slumlord who took advantage of Black renters in Hampton and Newport News was sentenced to 17 years in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and race-based interference with housing and employment.
Waynesboro City Council will decide the fate of cottage court housing to address affordability issues at its Jan. 13 organizational meeting.

Sunday’s game with American U. was a classic setup for what we call in the sportswriter business a “trap game” for the UVA Basketball team.
Virginia closed the game out going 7-of-8 at the line in the final 24 seconds. Don’t say I didn’t warn you that this one had trap game written all over it. American should have won this game. Credit to the Virginia kids for, in the moment, gutting it out.
The Blue Ridge Parkway has been designated as a National Historic Landmark, one of 19 new sites named this week.
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