This months-long investigative project analyzed building and health inspection reports to explore the national affordable housing crisis in this part of the Richmond region. This package won first place for Special Section from the Virginia Press Association.

U.S. Department of Agriculture data and local real estate records served as the backbone to this story analyzing the causes of the rapidly diminishing farmland in Stafford County and its impact on the region's health. This story was part of the "On the Farm" series that won first place at the Virginia Press Association, Virginia Farm Bureau's top award and Society of Professional Journalists Dateline Award.

WASHINGTON — “What was the point?” they asked when she told them she would drive north from Richmond to the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday. “What would it all accomplish?”

Featured on magazine website and part of October 2012 edition. From the window of The Grey Hill Café's 18-foot trailer, co-owner Graham Harrison watches as looks of surprise and delight spread across his customers' faces when they take their first bite into his sandwiches.

Analyzing water testing reports along with researching health regulations and the history of lead contamination revealed that hundreds of students could be drinking out of unsafe water fountains in part due to lagging regulations that school officials hoped state lawmakers would tighten.

Three days after her boyfriend was found shot and lying on the ground in Richmond’s North Side, Shaunte Townes felt the pains she had been expecting for nine months. George Carrington IV was born about 10:30 p.m. Monday at 9 pounds and 7 ounces. He inherited the name of the father he will never meet.