Senate balks at Commanders stadium study and more Va. headlines

The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)

• After the University of Richmond’s law school removed the name of a man who donated $25,000 in the 1890s over his ties to slavery, his descendants are asking for the money back plus interest. In total, they say they’re owed $51 million.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• The Virginia Economic Development Partnership is refusing to release more than 1,700 records that would shed light on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to take Virginia out of the running for an electric vehicle battery plant Ford, and a Chinese company is planning as a joint venture.—Associated Press

• Budget writers in the Virginia Senate aren’t going along with a plan for a $500,000 state study on prospects for a new Washington Commanders stadium in Northern Virginia.—Washington Post

• “A Portsmouth man spent six years in jail awaiting trial in two cases. Both ended in acquittals.”—Virginian-Pilot

• Staff from the Virginia Aquarium are looking into the deaths of two humpback whales in the Hampton Roads area.—13News Now

by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

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