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The former police officer accused of killing Andre Hill interacted “two to three” times with Hill before the shooting and became concerned he was a burglar, the officer’s attorney said Friday as he defended his client with never-before-heard details about the night of the fatal shooting

Photo courtesy of the City of Richmond Richmond City Council on Tuesday voted to suspend ticketing for street sweeping violations during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place period, and to consider modifying the program so that it is less punitive in its efforts to gain compliance. The city suspended street sweeping citations earlier in the pandemic. But officials reversed course and resumed ticketing on Oct. 1, stating that blocking access to street sweepers had prompted  “numerous complaints of t...

Busy phone lines and crashed websites: Bay Area seniors hit hurdles in race to get vaccinated FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8Marian Sullivan (left) of San Francisco receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination from medical assistant Lori Viramontes (right) at the new COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Sutter Health in San Francisco on Thursday, January 14, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif. Sutter Health is only vaccinating seniors aged 75 and older and not yet vaccinating those seniors 65-74 years...

Richmond Fire Chief Adrian Sheppard in his office at City Hall. (Photos by Mike Kinney) Richmond Fire Chief Adrian Sheppard has accepted the position of fire chief in Redmond, Wash., a city with a population of about 70,000, city officials announced Friday. Sheppard will start his new job in February, City Manager Laura Snideman said in a notice to City Council that was shared in Richmond Mayor Tom Butt’s e-forum newsletter. Snideman said she will select an interim chief before Sheppard’s d...

Macys To Close Store At Hilltop Mall Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail RICHMOND (BCN) The Macys store at the ailing Hilltop Mall in Richmond will close in March, the chain said Monday in a letter to city and county officials. The closure, which follows the loss of the JC Penney and Sears stores, leaves Walmart as the lone major tenant at the 45-year-old shopping center. Macys said the closure would happen between March 14-27, and some 133 employees would be laid off, according to Richm...

Richmond sued over plan to develop site laden with pollutants FacebookTwitterEmail 1of4 Sherry Padgett, a member of the Richmond Shoreline Alliance, visits the site of a proposed residential development project in Richmond last month. Padgett has fought for a thorough cleanup of the soil since she was diagnosed with cancers in her ribs and thyroid in 2003 and 2004. The cancers are now in remission.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of4 A lawsuit has been filed over the plan to develo...

Hilltop Mall situation grows worse as Macys closes permanently FacebookTwitterEmail Richmonds Hilltop Mall, already a ghost town, is about to get even emptier. Mayor Tom Butt announced Tuesday that Macys will be closing permanently. Its part of a 45-store closure across the nation for the struggling department store chain. Butt shared part of the letter the city and county received from Macys, which indicated the store will permanently shutter sometime between March 14-27. Its 133 employees wil...

Hilltop Mall is located at 2200 Hilltop Mall Road in Richmond, Calif. Macy’s at Hilltop Mall will permanently close and 133 employees will be laid off unless some transfer to other stores, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt announced in his e-forum newsletter. The mayor shared an email sent today from a Macy’s executive announcing the store’s closure. The email, sent to both city and county officials, notes that job eliminations are expected to occur between March 14 and March 27.  Macy’s is “s...

The mall is dead: Macys to close store at Hilltop in Richmond FacebookTwitterEmail Macy’s plans to close its store at Hilltop Mall in Richmond.Dreamstime / TNS After 44 years, Macy’s is closing its store at Hilltop mall in Richmond, leaving the mall with one major retail tenant — Walmart — and leading the mayor to declare, “The mall is dead.” Macy’s said Tuesday it would close 45 stores by this summer, part of a previously outlined strategy to shutter 125 locations and cut about 2...

Many in Richmond blame the decision to approve the mall, which opened in September 1976 on land owned by the Chevron refinery at the citys northern end for the decline of downtown, including the relocation of Macys and JC Penney, which were joined at the new center by an Emporium-Capwell store.  "A feasibility study showed that a more urban style mall could succeed in downtown, but the City Council rejected that economic development strategy in favor of Chevron and Hilltop," Butt wrote in an e...