Long time anti-death penalty advocate Barbara Becnel represented her point of view with a triumphal debate at Oxford Union.
A 20-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon near Nevin Park, and police are scrambling to apprehend a suspect.
After a Sunday night punctuated by deadly gunfire volleys in central and north Richmond, law enforcement officials are scrambling for answers.
The 18th Annual Iron Triangle Community Picnic is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, and organizers hope that it continues a trend that in recent years has seen growing crowds at the picnic and renewed faith in community.
From 2005 to 2010, at least 28 homicides occurred in the county area of North Richmond alone, an area with a population that has averaged about 2,300 people.
George Livingston Jr. is a born and bred local celebrity historian who has spent decades amassing a trove of photos, clippings and other memorabilia relating mostly to celebrities who have swept through Richmond.
Less than one week since a flurry of Sunday night gunfire left three dead and three wounded in Richmond and North Richmond, police and sheriffs are still looking for answers.
For more than a decade, one man has been the de facto elected representative of the nearly 3,000 residents of unincorporated North Richmond.
About 50 residents, Gompers High School students and local leaders gathered Thursday to mark the restoration of the Gompers Garden Mural, a massive swath of color and life that has imprinted a lush, vibrant jungle environment on a concrete wall.
Since a state citizens’ commission proposed new Congressional district boundaries earlier this summer that would divide Richmond, there’s been no shortage of opinions from Richmond residents and leaders – and most of them think it’s a bad idea.
Richmond has seen a dramatic decrease in deadly gun violence in recent years, but anti-violence advocates and city officials believe only a sustained, multi-partner commitment to violence prevention and intervention in the coming years can make these gains permanent.
California’s prison population must by law get smaller, and that means more ex-convicts in local communities.
With controversy over California’s use of capital punishment intensifying, anti-death penalty activists are looking to expand their outreach statewide – including into Richmond.