An Indiana recycling plant that caught on fire Tuesday and prompted the evacuation of more than 2,000 people was cited in the past for being unsafe, said officials in Richmond, adding that some 1,000 are under evacuation orders. Richmond Mayor Dave Snow told reporters that the owners of the plant “ignored” an order to “clean up this…

Police in Richmond, Virginia, have dropped charges against two men who were arrested for allegedly plotting a mass shooting for the Fourth of July holiday. The Richmond Commonwealth Attorney’s Office filed a motion on Aug. 3 to drop state charges against the two suspects in the case. Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette McEachin said that her…

CHESTERFIELD, Va.—One person was fatally shot and five other people were wounded by gunfire in a shooting Friday near Richmond, authorities said. The Chesterfield County Police Department said in a statement that police were responding to reports of shots fired at about 9:38 p.m. in Chester, Virginia. Arriving officers discovered a man suffering from a…

RICHMOND, Ky.—Elizabeth Burton, a marketing leader with Amazon, and her family were delighted by Shen Yun at the EKU Center for the Arts on May 8. “I loved it, I thought it was beautiful. The colors and the costumes were exquisite … the dancing was phenomenal,” she said. Based in New York, Shen Yun Performing…

RICHMOND, Ky.—Ken Jorette, the retired director of information systems for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, attended the May 7 performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts at the EKU Center for the Arts with his mother Dana Rorer. Ms. Rorer was impressed by the cherry blossom dance, and Ken was impressed with the history behind the performance, especially…

Almost 40 workers for the City of Richmond in B.C. who were put on unpaid leave for not providing proof of COVID-19 vaccination have won the right to return to work with back pay, in a rare legal decision to date in Canada. As a number of decisions relating to the legal grounds of mandatory…

Police in Richmond, Virginia, said that 300 cars converged in an attempt to take over the city over the past weekend. Authorities said that the individuals involved wanted to block streets to carry out illegal activities. “Their entire point was to come to Richmond, specifically Richmond, to do burnouts, donuts, and other illegal activities on…

RICHMOND, Va.—The Richmond Fire Investigations Unit are working to determine the cause and origin of a fire that engulfed William Fox Elementary School in Richmond. The Richmond Fire Department said in a post on Twitter that crews responded to a report of a building fire Friday at about 10:35 p.m. Officers arrived and encountered heavy…

RICHMOND, B.C.—Homicide investigators say they believe the targeted shooting that left four people dead in a Richmond, B.C., home was a murder-suicide. The victims were all members of the same family and include a 71-year-old father, a 58-year-old mother, their 23-year-old son and a daughter, aged 21. Sgt. David Lee of the Integrated Homicide Investigation…

RICHMOND, B.C.—Police say two men and two women who were found dead at a home after a shooting in Richmond, B.C., were from the same family. Sgt. David Lee of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said the identities of the four people aren’t being released until their family members have been notified. “This is a…