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In this Tuesday May 12, 2020 photo, Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, left, gestures as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, right, listens during an event with a group of volunteers to distribute supplies at health equity community event in Richmond, Va. The City of Richmond and Accomack County, which is on the state's Eastern Shore, have both asked Northam to delay a gradual reopening of some nonessential businesses. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Two more local governments in Virginia to delay reopening

By ALAN SUDERMAN and SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

Journey Vaughn, 6, left, watches Tamara Vaughn vote in the state's Democratic presidential primary election at Phoebus High School in Hampton, Va., Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Jonathon Gruenke/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

Joe Biden wins Virginia Democratic presidential primary

By ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

Virginia politicians stuck in elevator on way to Biden event

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In this Jan. 10, 2018, photo, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe gestures as he addresses a joint session of the 2018 session in the House chambers at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

Terry McAuliffe gets stuck in elevator on way to Biden event

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign event, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Spartanburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Bernie Sanders’ appeal tested in moderate Virginia on Super Tuesday

By Alan Suderman and Will Weissert - Associated Press

Study highlights homelessness, eviction rate in Richmond

By LUIS VELARDE and The Washington Post - Associated Press

This July 31, 2017 file photo shows the statue of confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. Local Virginia governments may soon have the power to remove Confederate monuments in their public spaces under legislation approved Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 by state lawmakers. Largely along party lines, the Democrat-led House and Senate passed measures that would give cities and counties the autonomy to "remove, relocate, contextualize, cover or alter the monuments in their public spaces.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia House, Senate pass Confederate statue removal bills

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2019, file photo, patrons drive up to the entrance of Rosie's gaming center in Richmond, Va. Virginia lawmakers are taking steps to legalize casinos in five cities around the state. A Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, that would allow Bristol, Danville, Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth to hold local referendums to approve casinos. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Virginia lawmakers advance plan to legalize casinos

By ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2019, photo, attendees hold signs during the Richmond School Board's last public hearing on redistricting at Ginter Park Elementary School in Richmond, Va. From New York City to Richmond, sweeping proposals to ease inequities have been scaled back or canceled after encountering a backlash. In Virginia’s capital city, the school board approved a plan that reassigned some students but rejected more sweeping proposals that would have diversified Richmond’s whitest elementary schools. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Parent resistance thwarts local school desegregation efforts

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and SARAH RANKIN - Associated Press

Barriers are set up at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2019, in anticipation of a rally by a large number of gun-rights backers on Monday. An unprecedented show of force by gun-rights activists is expected on Monday in Virginia. They are angry over the state's new Democratic majority leadership and its plans to enact a slew of gun restrictions. Thousands of gun activists are expected to turn out. Second Amendment groups have identified the state as a rallying point for the fight against what they see as a national erosion of gun rights. (Joe Mahoney/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia gun rally: Oath Keepers, Three Percenter Movement, white supremacists expected

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam gestures as he delivers his State of the Commonwealth address before a joint session of the Assembly at the state Capitol in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Ralph Northam Virginia Capitol gun ban faces court challenge as rally looms

By Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam talks about security plans for Lobby Day at the Capitol Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, when large crowds are expected to arrive at Capitol Square, during a press conference at the Patrick Henry Building in Richmond, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Ralph Northam Virginia Capitol gun ban upheld by judge

By Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

Once-thriving black community becomes debated redevelopment

By JIMMY O'KEEFE - Associated Press

The statue titled Rumor's of War by artist Kehinde Wiley gets fully unveiled after the tarp covering the statue got stuck for a while at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. The monumental bronze sculpture of a young black man astride a galloping horse was unveiled Tuesday, set to be permanently installed in Virginia's capital city, not far from the Confederate monument it mimics. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Richmond installs statue of black man in hoodie on horseback near Confederate monuments

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Richmond creates task force to help prevent evictions

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Data shows mail often arrives late in Richmond area

By JACLYN BARTON - Associated Press

In this Jan. 17, 1996 file photo, former Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles poses with proofs of a book he wrote, &quot;Preserving the Chesapeake Bay,&quot; in his law office in Richmond, Va. Baliles, a Democrat known as the &quot;transportation governor&quot; and for his work to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and to increase foreign trade, died Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, at the age of 79 after battling cancer. (P. Kevin Morley/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP, File)

Gerald Baliles, former Virginia governor, dies at 79

By Alan Suderman - Associated Press

Maine police say death of man found in his home suspicious

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School district advances conversation around gun violence

By SUSAN SHIBUT and Capital News Service - Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the execution chamber at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP)

Virginia executions lawsuit calls for full public view

By Denise Lavoie - Associated Press