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Richard Parker (1751 – 8 May 1780) was an American colonel who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Son of prominent Virginia jurist Richard Parker, Parker received an officer's commission in a Virginia regiment early in the conflict. He probably was present at Great Bridge and Norfolk. Promoted to major, he fought at Trenton in December ...
Eleanor Parker Sheppard (July 24, 1907 – March 13, 1991) was an American civic activist and Democratic politician who became the first woman to be elected to the city council of Richmond, Virginia, and later became her adopted city's first female mayor, then represented its citizens in the Virginia General Assembly for a decade.
The current Mayor of Richmond, Virginia and 80th in the sequence of regular officeholders is Democrat Levar Stoney who succeeded Dwight C. Jones, a Baptist pastor and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 2016. Jones was first elected in 2008, and won a second term in November 2012.
Richmond Interim Chief of Police Rick Edwards gives a news briefing about a shooting that happened at the Huguenot High School graduation, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Richmond, Va. (AP) Six people ...
Aberdeen is a historic plantation house located several miles north of Disputanta, in Prince George County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, temple form brick dwelling. Unlike most of the James River Plantations Aberdeen was built back from the River along the old river road (now Rte 10).
Richard Neville Parker (1884–1958), English botanist and forester. Richard Parker (1867–1884), the cabin boy victim of shipwreck, murder, and cannibalism in the incident of the court-case R v Dudley and Stephens. Richard Parker (potter) (born 1946), New Zealand potter. Rick Parker (artist) (born 1946), American artist, writer, and cartoonist.
10. Span of crimes. October 12, 1986 – September 5, 1989 (Confirmed) Country. United States. State (s) Virginia. The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least eight people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [ 1 ] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts ...
On the morning of August 26, 2015, news reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBSaffiliate WDBJin Roanoke, Virginia, United States, were fatally shot while conducting a live television interview near Smith Mountain Lakein Moneta. They were interviewing Vicki Gardner, executive director of the local chamber of ...