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RPD Capt. Rick Edwards reminds of the dangers of celebratory gunfire In a year of social distancing, forget ringing in the new year at a crowded bar at the stroke of midnight. Dancing at a packed club is also off the table this New Year’s Eve. Or doing shots at a bar. Or even standing closer than 6 feet to a stranger without a mask on indoors. This is New Year’s Eve in a pandemic. And things are looking pretty different at Richmond restaurants and bars. Seated dinners, temperature che...

A Reuters photographer saw the young Black dancers standing proudly en pointe in front of the graffiti-laced statue; they were wearing black tutus and raising their fists in a symbol of strength. She asked if she could take their picture, and when Reuters posted the photo to social media, it went viral. Fast. The image almost instantly became an iconic photo of the Black Lives Matter movement, with celebrities retweeting it and national publications such as Vanity Fair and Vogue running the ph...