Former Gov. Wilder Sues VCU President; More Va., Headlines

Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

July 19, 2022

• A judge tossed a defamation lawsuit filed by the former Virginia Parole Board chairwoman (now Portsmouth’s new city manager) against a Richmond TV station.—Associated Press

• Former Gov. Doug Wilder filed a $5 million lawsuit against the president of VCU, which named its school of government after him and where he works as a professor. The suit stems from a “personnel dispute in which a former VCU employee sent a crude text message to the former governor and VCU’s administration opted not to fire him.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• A wool co-op in Northern Virginia is trying to help sheep farmers weather hard times.—Winchester Star

• Norfolk’s housing authority is “dire financial straits.”—Virginian-Pilot

• Virginia restaurants, battered by the pandemic, are now straining under the pressure of inflation.—NBC12

• The Richmond City Council and the mayor have a deal on a public employee collective bargaining ordinance.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• Thousands of dead fish washed ashore after they were spilled from the nets of a reduction fishery boat in the Chesapeake Bay.—Northern Neck News

• Archaeologists in Williamsburg “began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches on Monday.”—Associated Press

• Rescue and shelter groups are working to find homes for thousands of beagles surrendered by a Cumberland County facility that bred them for medical use but was forced to close over animal welfare violations.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• An alligator, named Splash, that went missing from a private mobile zoo in Chesapeake was found in a backyard pool a few doors down.—Virginian-Pilot

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