About Miss Community Clovia

Clovia Lawrence is a seasoned broadcast journalist who is best known in the Richmond Metropolitan area as \"Miss Community\" or \"Community Clovia.\" With more than 20 years experience, her real passion is in tackling tough topics and issues that affect the lives of people from every walk of life. Ms. Lawrence is the product of the Richmond Public School system and a graduate of Virginia Union University. Covering the Central Virginia market, she has a proven track record as a news reporter, announcer, and community affairs director working at more than a dozen radio stations in virtually every format.

Via:  www.newsone.com // HONOLULU — Hawaii legislators have passed a measure allowing a state agency to ignore repeated requests from a person or organization for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The measure approved Tuesday by the state Legislature would carve an exemption in the state’s public records law and allow officials to ignore all kinds […]

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VCU’s Board of Visitors voted today in favor of a 24 percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees for in-state students. For more information, visit www.budgetupdate.vcu.edu

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Via:  www.newsone.com // NEW YORK — Evelyn Cunningham, a pioneering journalist who covered the birth of the 1960s civil rights movement and later served as an aide to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, died Wednesday. She was 94. She died of natural causes at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan, said her niece, Gigi […]

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Photo by: JOE MAHONEY/TIMES-DISPATCH Article by: REED WILLIAMS/TIMES-DISPATCH In a civil proceeding today, a Richmond judge refused to permanently close Ann’s Soul Food, a downtown restaurant that authorities say is a source of drug activity. Circuit Judge Walter W. Stout III ruled that the restaurant in the 200 block of East Broad Street will only […]

Via:  www.newsone.com // Transportation for America WASHINGTON (AP) ― Transit workers are rallying in the nation’s capital to call for more support of mass transportation. The rally will be held at Upper Senate Park in northwest Washington on Tuesday afternoon. Click here to view photos. Organizers say the Rev. Jesse Jackson will join transit union […]

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A call came into Richmond police at 11am this morning for a shooting at the Host Inn Motel on Midlothian Turnpike near Chippenham Parkway. Police say a man’s body was found at the scene.  Check back for more information as the story develops. http://www.nbc12.com/global/video/videoplayer.js?rnd=481064;hostDomain=www.nbc12.com;playerWidth=550;playerHeight=400;isShowIcon=true;clipId=4740068;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=null;enableAds=false;landingPage=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.nbc12.com%252Fglobal%252Fcategory.asp%253Fc%253D151146%2526clipId%253D%2526topVideoCatNo%253D15149%2526topVideoCatNoB%253D135440%2526topVideoCatNoC%253D136187%2526topVideoCatNoD%253D136183%2526topVideoCatNoE%253D154626;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript

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