HOME FROM WAR: Henrico man’s hard part-time job

Matt Wheeler joined the Navy reserves and discovered that his part-time job was definitely more dangerous than his full-time work.

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    Tuckahoe Elementary serves generation after generation

    HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WTVR) – Tuckahoe Elementary school in Henrico County has served West End families generation after generation. What…

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    Donations, registration down after Komen, Planned Parenthood controversy

    Director of the Central Virginia affiliate of Komen says it’s been painful to have the charity’s image tarnished

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    DOJ: Virginia fails citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities

    In between plucking beads from a weathered plastic bag and etching florescent yellow marks on an empty white cap, Sharon looks up and flashes her signature smile.

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    How Richmond son became world’s greatest tap dancer

    Watch Greg McQuade’s report here.

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    Doctor’s quest to engineer a ‘master race’ in the early 1900s still hurting Virginia’s Indian tribes

    Richmond’s famous Hollywood Cemetery serves as the final resting place of presidents, statesmen and generals.

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    Former slave, John Mitchell Jr., paves way for African Americans

    Watch Greg McQuade’s profile on John Mitchell Jr. here.

  • CBS 6 Investigates / News / Special Reports

    Do school employees double-dip with pension and temp paychecks?

    Documents obtained by CBS 6 show that 332 retirees of the school system—which faces a $24 million dollar budget shortfall—have returned as employees, many paid hefty wages.

  • CBS 6 Investigates / News / Special Reports Are jails dumping ground for mentally ill? Catie Beck reports.

    CBS 6 INVESTIGATION: Officials say jails are dumping ground for mentally ill

    Officials say a staggering number of mentally ill people are winding up in jails in Central Virginia and across the country.

  • CBS 6 Investigates / Special Reports Woolums Investigation

    CBS 6 INVESTIGATION: Officer facing $20 million lawsuit, new allegations

    On April 30, Tappahannock police Sgt. Everett Woolums stopped Teresa Churchill’s sons while they were riding their bicycles

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    The class of 2011: Entering the real world in debt

    Colleges and universities across the country have been increasing the cost of attendance incessantly during the last several years.

  • Special Reports Friends battle rare cancer

    Young friends battle rare cancer in Chesterfield

    For Kieran Hathaway and Ber Van Der Meer, childhood has often been difficult. The two Robious elementary students have faced realities most adults never will.

  • News / Special Reports Eric Rash: Facebook sends VA family information about son in parents for answers in teen's suicide

    Facebook sends family information about son’s page before his suicide

    On a quiet dairy farm in Nottoway County, Ricky and Diane Rash say they were at peace raising their four children, including their only son, Eric.