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  • S.C. First Lady Files For Divorce

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 42 mins ago  

    CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, filed for divorce Friday more than five months after his tearful Full Story »

  • Sword-Wielding Va. Man Shot With Stun Gun Dies

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 43 mins ago  

    HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - Hampton police are investigating the death of a man who was shot twice with a stun gun by officers after he repeatedly swung a samurai-style sword at them. Police spokeswoman Cpl. Full Story »

  • Mom of Ohio suspect: Pipe bombs are his hobby

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 57 mins ago  

    A former anesthesiologist accused of making pipe bombs in his apartment didn't intend to harm anyone and detonated the devices in remote areas as a hobby, his mother told a newspaper. Full Story »

  • Girl, 17, wounded in shooting at La. high school

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 57 mins ago  

    Police in the northwestern Louisiana city of Shreveport say a female student was shot on the grounds of a high school and a suspect was arrested. Full Story »

  • US official: Pakistan expected to deport US youths

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 1 hr 27 mins ago  

    A senior State Department official says the U.S. expects that Pakistani authorities will deport five young Americans they have detained over alleged terrorist links. Full Story »

  • NYC mayor on deadly shootout: 'Too many guns'

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 1 hr 28 mins ago  

    The mayor railed against gun violence on Friday, one day after a street peddler armed with a machine pistol died in a shootout with police outside a hotel in bustling Times Square. Full Story »

  • Fort Lee Hotel Put On Hold

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 2 hrs 12 mins ago  

    PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) - The Army's plan for a 15-story, 1,000-room military hotel at Fort Lee is on hold. A congressional subcommittee decided this week to defer a decision on the Petersburg high-rise Full Story »

  • SC first lady files for divorce from cheating gov

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 2 hrs 12 mins ago  

    South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, filed for divorce Friday more than five months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an... Full Story »

  • Former Met museum director Thomas Hoving dies

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 2 hrs 27 mins ago  

    Thomas Hoving, whose charismatic but controversial leadership of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography, "Making the Mummies Dance," has died. He was 78. Full Story »

  • Casey Anthony lawyers seek to block death penalty

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – 2 hrs 27 mins ago  

    Attorneys for a Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter are expected to ask a judge to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. Full Story »

  • US official: Pakistan expected to deport US youths

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 9:15 am ET  

    A senior State Department official said Friday the U.S. expects Pakistan to deport five young Americans detained there after they allegedly sought to join up with terrorist groups and left behind a video saying fellow... Full Story »

  • Pit Bulls Shot, Killed At Dulles Airport

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 8:45 am ET  

    CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) - The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority says a police officer shot two pit bulls to death at Dulles International Airport after one dog got out of its kennel and attacked the Full Story »

  • VT Murder Suspect Expected To Enter Plea

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 8:30 am ET  

    CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) - A court hearing has been scheduled for a former Virginia Tech student accused of killing another student in a campus eatery, and the man is expected to enter a plea in the case. Haiyang Full Story »

  • Albemarle Allowing Private Wind Turbines

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 8:15 am ET  

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Albemarle County's supervisors have agreed to allow residents in rural areas to erect small wind turbines. The zoning change unanimously approved Thursday allows turbines up Full Story »

  • Charities still stung by Madoff scandal year later

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 7:15 am ET  

    Nancy Falchuk will never forget the phone call. She was in Boston, it was raining and the news was bad. Hadassah, the century-old Jewish charity she had been elected to lead a year earlier, hadjust lost a big chunk of its... Full Story »

  • Legal case debates classiness of Flynt family smut

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 6:30 am ET  

    When it comes to peddling porn, Larry Flynt wants you to know his videos of people having sex are a cut above other smut on the rack. Full Story »

  • Mich. AG to give deposition in slain stripper suit

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 5:45 am ET  

    Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit. Full Story »

  • Anna Nicole Smith's doctors, boyfriend in court

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 5:30 am ET  

    Anna Nicole Smith's two doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend face arraignment on drug charges Friday, accused of illegally providing the late Playboy model with sedatives and opiates. Full Story »

  • Attorneys ask court to dismiss Polanski sex case

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 5:30 am ET  

    Roman Polanski is getting help from his victim in a bid to have sex misconduct charges against him dismissed. Full Story »

  • GAO: Northern Plains corn ethanol uses more water

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 4:15 am ET  

    Farmers in the Northern Plains use considerably more water to produce a gallon of corn ethanol than growers in other parts of the country, according to a new government report examining whether increased biofuels use could... Full Story »

  • Health care loophole would allow coverage limits

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 3:45 am ET  

    A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebukefrom patient advocates. Full Story »

  • AP review: Effects wow but story limps in 'Avatar'

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 3:15 am ET  

    By JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer When a film brashly asserts that it will change moviemaking forever, one feels the urge to either take its "king of the world" arrogance down a notch or hail it as the... Full Story »

  • Missing Yale lab tech found near home

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 2:00 am ET  

    Police say they've found a missing Yale University lab technician who reportedly works at the building where a graduate student was killed in September. Full Story »

  • US-born Hispanics see gains in education, income

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 12:45 am ET  

    Young Hispanics born in the U.S. are less likely to drop out of school and live in poverty than Hispanic immigrants of their age, but they have higher exposure to gangs and violence, an independent research group says. Full Story »

  • Gov't auditors say food-tracing program flawed

    WRIC 8 News Richmond – Fri Dec 11, 12:00 am ET  

    A crucial part of the nation's rapid-reponse plan - the ability to trace food through the supply chain during an illness outbreak or bioterrorism attack - is seriously flawed, an independent watchdog agency has found. Full Story »

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