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Jessica Wetzler

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Honey’s homecoming: How a cat lost during a travel stop in Henrico reunited with owners months later

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By Jessica Wetzler
| WRIC-TV (Richmond, VA) Verified
HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — It’s a pet parent’s worst nightmare, and one Amanda Taggart waited months to wake up from. Twenty-six-year-old Taggart, of Quakertown, Penn., was traveling from Colorado to Pennsylvania back in September 2025. After two 12-hour days of travel, Taggart and her husband, Shane, had decided to stop at the Hyatt Place hotel on Cox Road in Henrico County, Virginia. “It was our last last leg of the trip and we were so close,” Taggart said.
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Early morning fire destroys Mechanicsville home

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By Jessica Wetzler
| WRIC-TV (Richmond, VA) Verified
HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A family is without a home following a house fire in Mechanicsville Thursday morning. On January 23rd around 12:30 a.m., Hanover County firefighters responded to a house fire on the 7400 block of River Valley Road. Hanover County Fire Chief Chris Anderson said two people and a dog were inside the home when the fire started. Two people were able to escape, but the dog did not. Fire crews marked the fire under control around 1:30 a.m., but the home was deemed a total loss.
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How to Benefit From a Journalist’s Slow Season

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By Jessica Wetzler
| Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
Like clockwork, there comes a time when journalists find themselves looking at an empty barrel of story ideas hoping to find a glimmer of gold at the bottom. Sometimes these instances happen out of the blue, and sometimes it’s a bit more predictable. Throughout any given year, a journalist can find themselves struggling to come up with story ideas simply based on the time of year.
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