Virginia Commonwealth University head basketball coach Shaka Smart answers questions during a news conference at the school in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The Rams earned their way to this.
Anita Gene Lester,65, is being remembered as a caring lawyer who spent part of her career defending those accused of crimes and part of her career prosecuting them.
Administrative dysfunction has long been a standard feature of City Hall. But that was supposed to change with the city’s switch to a strong-mayor form of government in 2004.
The Rev. Tyler C. Millner, 77, recently retired as pastor of Martinsville s Morning Star Holy Church after nearly 33 years. He leaves in his wake a half-century of civic engagement in his native Martinsville and in Richmond, where he spent two decades as project director for Richmond s Community Learning Week, which became a national model for celebrations of the life and legacy of King.