Friends and family were mourning the loss of an 18-year-old from Newport News when shots rang out at Parklawn Memorial Park in Hampton. No one was physically injured in the gunfire, but that doesn't mean no one was affected. Story of the day from Marcellus Harris III's perspective with larger insight to psychological damages of gunfire. Â Read more in this Sunday's Main News section While the coronavirus has ravaged communities over the past year, health care workers say there is another epidemic destroying lives and families. During the public health crisis, doctors in Norfolk have pulled out more bullets, stitched closed more stab wounds and seen more assault victims in their OR than ever before. Experts say the lockdown and economic downturn have contributed to a steep rise in trauma patients. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section
The cases that launched legislative candidate Tim Anderson into the political spotlight have nothing to do with the district he is running in. His reputation is built on filing lawsuits involving politically polarizing events and attacking Democratic leaders like State Sen. Louise Lucas, who is the first African American to become the Virginia Senate's president pro tempore.
Read more in this Sunday's Main News section A team of architectural historians is working to document and preserve all the Virginia sites listed in the "Negro Motorist Green Book" that advised Black Americans where they could safely travel during the Jim Crow era. About a third of the state's sites are in Hampton Roads. Read more in this Sunday's Main News section The Chapel of the Centurion at Fort Monroe is getting some TLC, with the restoration of eight delicate stained-glass windows which began Tuesday June 15. The process calls for removing the large panes, which have buckled over the year and then replacing the lead that bind the glass and also removing the glass pieces. Assembling it back is akin to putting a puzzle back together, says owner Jeff Speake of Lynchburg Stained Glass, which is doing the work. The project is expected to take 6 to 8 months to complete with the majority of work done at Speake's study in Lynchburg. The Carpenter-Gothic-style chapel, built in 1957, is said to be oldest continually used wooden military structure for religious services in the United States.  Read more in this Sunday's Main News section When Leroy Dublin disappeared in December, he had no idea how many would notice. Dublin was a homeless man, a fixture at a corner in Ghent, a lone figure reading under a streetlight in all kinds of weather, year after year. Nearly 400 people have weighed in on Nextdoor thread, wondering what happened to him and trying to play detective. Whatâs behind such an outpouring?      Read more in the Sunday Break section.           Two years ago we wrote about a boy diagnosed with a rare disease that most       children die from before they reach their teenage years. Next week, Dante'         Herrera graduates from high school. We're checking in on "whatever happened      to" him.       Read more in the Sunday Break section.
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