Richmond officials are trying to keep this year's budget crunch from closing the Main Library on Saturdays. And while it means a scramble for dollars, officials are also working to continue a long-standing arrangement with Chesterfield County that gives South Richmond residents free access to the Bon Air Library.
An argument led to a stabbing the night of April 25 in Richmond's Fan District, police said. Officers were called at 11:46 p.m. after a 24-year-old man was stabbed while visiting an apartment in the 1600 block of Monument Avenue near North Lombardy Street, said Richmond police Lt.
A man was shot and killed by a Chesterfield County police officer who was answering a call about a domestic situation on the 11100 block of Lucks Lane at about 9:30 p.m. April 25. During a confrontation with police in the driveway of a residence, the individual was shot and died at the scene, said Lt.
Churches stood empty Sunday in heavily Roman Catholic Mexico City after services were canceled, and health workers screened airports and bus stations for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic. Mayor Marcelo Ebrardo said two more people died of swine flu overnight in the overcrowded capital, and three other deaths are suspected to have been caused by the strain.
An Iraqi official says the prime minister has called a deadly April 26 pre-dawn raid by U.S. forces a "violation of the security pact." The fallout over the raid that killed a woman in southern Iraq is one of the most serious challenges to the agreement that requires American commanders to coordinate raids and other planned strikes with the Iraqi government and military.
Tamil Tiger rebels fighting government forces in northeast Sri Lanka have declared a unilateral ceasefire. Rebel spokesman Seevaratnam Puleethevan told the BBC the move was because of an "unprecedented humanitarian crisis." Sri Lanka's defense secretary however, dismissed the announcement as "a joke," insisting the rebels must surrender.
Nova Scotia's chief public health officer says the east coast Canadian province has four confirmed cases of swine flu. Chief Public Health officer Dr. Robert Strang said April 24 four students from King's-Edgehill School in Nova Scotia ranging in age from 12 to 17 or 18 are recovering.
