Neighborhood residents and business owners have rallied to the defense of a VCU student and ice-cream shop clerk who police say shot and killed a man trying to rob the store. Last week, Commonwealth Attorney Michael N. Herring referred to a grand jury the case involving David Fielding, a 21-year-old student in the School of the Arts.
About 400 people met to discuss Richmond's downtown master plan Thursday night at the Renaissance Convention Center. At the community meeting, cityplanning specialists, residents, business representatives and government officials discussed their visions for the expansion of downtown Richmond.
VCU Police targeted intoxicated drivers Saturday night with a sobriety checkpoint along the 1000 block of Main Street. The checkpoint was funded through a Zero Tolerance Grant from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported almost 17,000 people, including 347 Virginia residents, were killed in alcoholrelated motor vehicle crashes in 2005, the most recent year the statistics are available.
"Faces of Religious Freedom" · First Freedom Center · 1321 E. Main St. · (14th and Main) · M-F: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. http://firstfreedom.org · (804) 643-1786 Less than two miles from the Monroe Park Campus is a new exhibit that highlights leaders in the fight for religious freedom.
VCU President Eugene P. Trani's former residence at 4700 Charmian Road was sold recently for about $1.8 million by the organizations - the VCU Foundation and the MCV Foundation - that owned the house. The nonprofit foundations had bought the seven- bedroom brick colonial in the 1970s to function as the official residence for VCU's president, as well as serve as a place to entertain university faculty, staff and guests.
