Macy Moors

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - As students return to Virginia Commonwealth University for a new semester, campus police are reminding students to make personal safety part of their daily routine. VCU Police Officer Hakilah Hudson, who works with the department’s Crime Prevention Unit and also serves as a victim-witness specialist, said students should make safety a personal priority as they settle back into campus life. “You always want to take safety personal,” Hudson said.

HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - Glen Allen High School leaders have identified one of the teenagers killed in a crash in Henrico County this week. School officials said, with the permission of his family, 17-year-old Soham Desai was one of the two teens who died in the crash Monday night. Police said three teenagers were in the vehicle when it ran off the road and crashed into several trees. Desai and another teen were killed. The third teen suffered minor injuries. Police say speed may have been a factor.

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Virginia’s vaccine recommendations and school immunization requirements remain unchanged following President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for changes to childhood vaccine recommendations, according to the Virginia Department of Health. The order, signed Monday, calls for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, commonly known as MMR, to be separated into three individual vaccines.