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RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - A week after 20-year-old Antajuan Hawkins went missing, his friends and family are still mourning after he was found dead near a Richmond park on Saturday.

“When I saw it, I didn’t want to believe it,” Jordan Washington, Hawkins’ friend, said.

It’s the same reaction many had when they went to social media to learn the Henrico High School graduate had been found dead.

Hawkins was reported missing on Feb. 23, and two days later, police found his body near the Pine Camp Cultural Arts and Community Center on Richmond’s north side.

The medical examiner is still determining a cause of death, but on Sunday, 20-year-old Randel Parker was charged with stabbing while committing a felony.

“I don’t know why somebody would wanna do that to him,” Washington said. “Like he doesn’t do nothing to nobody. He’s just a kind person.”

Washington said Hawkins was like a brother to him.

“Some people, if you become friends with somebody, they don’t really check up on you or see how you’re doing like he did to me,” Washington said. “That’s why I kinda looked at him like family because he did that, and I did it back to him.”

Hawkins was a member of the nonprofit, Save Our Youth, a program aimed at getting teenagers ready for adulthood for seven years.

Those who knew him best said he loved the sport of basketball.

“He wanted to go play basketball with me, but we could never really go and play, but I wish we could have,” Washinton said.

Those who mentored Hawkins said he was born in Norfolk but was raised in Henrico.

Now the family is planning a service to honor his life.

“They’re hurt about it too. It’s just a lot, a lot of emotions,” Washinton said.

He said all he has been doing over the last few days are remembering the memories and conversations he shared with his friend.

“Like, I wish he was still here so we can go play basketball together and stuff,” Washington said. “I mean, he still is here in my heart and everything, but it’s just going to be hard to deal with it.”

A vigil will be held this Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Pine Camp basketball courts to remember the life of Hawkins.

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Governor spotlights bill to have Virginia recognize professional credentials from other states

Dot Reid’s barber shop used to have 20 employees and two floors of space in Richmond’s Fan District. Coming out of a pandemic when many people treated haircuts as optional or more of a do-it-yourself thing, she’s down to five employees on one floor.

As she cut a customer’s hair Friday morning, Reid explained the trouble she’s had in recruiting new barbers and hairstylists as she tries to rebuild her business. She had a qualified job candidate with over a decade of experience, she said, but because he would’ve been coming from Maryland, it would’ve taken a while for him to get licensed to cut hair in Virginia.

“That was a huge challenge for me to actually have qualified candidates right there in front of me,” Reid said. “But then I knew we had to deal with the regulation challenges.”

Reid’s customer, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, chimed in to say it’s harder for people to move to Virginia if they know they can’t work and make money immediately.

“The income that you had where you were coming from generally stops,” Youngkin said as he sat in Reid’s chair at Refuge for Men. “And if there’s a long gap before you can start working again, you can’t move.”

A few minutes before the haircut, Youngkin signed universal occupational licensing legislation that will make Virginia recognize many professional licenses issued by other states, a shift supporters say will remove regulatory red tape that can be an obstacle for out-of-state workers trying to get started in a new place.

The bill passed the General Assembly with unanimous support and is the first major piece of 2023 legislation Youngkin has spotlighted with a formal bill-signing ceremony.

State officials project the streamlined process could lead to as many as 500 additional people per year applying for licenses from the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, which oversees dozens of professions including barbers, interior designers, auctioneers, body piercers, home improvement contractors, tattooists and professional wrestlers.

“What this means is that in 85 different occupations, if you have a license in another state and you’re coming to Virginia — making sure that of course you’re up-to-date and don’t have any problems where you’re coming from and making sure you understand the laws of Virginia — you can go to work right away,” Youngkin said. “This is my first official signing because this bill will change lives.”

The bill doesn’t apply to more strictly overseen “professional services” jobs like accountants, architects, lawyers, doctors and engineers.

The new law requires applicants to have had an equivalent license, certification or work experience in another state for at least three years. It also allows Virginia regulatory boards to require newly arrived applicants to pass an exam on Virginia-specific laws and regulations in their field. Virginia regulators would not automatically grant licenses to anyone facing major disciplinary action in another state or applicants with unresolved investigations or complaints about their work elsewhere.

“We put some common-sense provisions [in] to make sure that people are not coming from other states that have issues with their licensure,” said Sen. Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover, who sponsored the bill in the state Senate. “We have protections for Virginians.”

Del. Will Morefield, R-Tazewell, the bill’s sponsor in the House of Delegates, called the legislation part of an effort to “bring common sense back to government.”

“Often the more sense something makes, the more complicated the government can often make it,” Morefield said as he and other statehouse notables gathered by a neon-green octopus mural and star-spangled barber chair to watch the governor sign the bill.

In addition to giving Youngkin a haircut, Reid, the owner of Refuge for Men, presented the governor with a straight razor as a gesture of appreciation.

“Thanks for coming to my shop,” Reid told the crowd. “I’ve never done anything like this before.”

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Roanoke Catholic 52St. Margaret’s 43

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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new age restriction policy is in effect for visitors at the Movieland at Boulevard Square in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood.

“When I first walked up to it, I read it on the sign and I was like ‘wow, is that really a thing nowadays?’” said a moviegoer 8News spoke with, Matthew Larrain.

A new sign has been posted to the ticket booth, making it clear — guests under the age of 17 would not be allowed into the theater after 7:30 p.m., photo ID is required. Some guests 8News spoke with were surprised by the new rules, others welcomed them. But Larrain said he’s worried some families will miss out on quality time together after work and school.

“They are coming out of soccer practice too, which happened after school, so by the time it’s time to go out and have fun with the family, it’s like 7 p.m. already so they can’t really have fun down here,” he said.

The company that owns the theater, Bow Tie Management, said they were prompted to introduce the policy after receiving requests from customers.

“We’re instituting this policy at the request of our valued patrons, and we are confident that 17 after 7:30 will greatly improve and enhance the movie-going experience for the vast majority of our customers,” said Joseph Masher, owner and operating partner of Bow Tie Management. “One of the elements that separates Bow Tie from large chains is our ability to listen and respond quickly to the needs of our patrons. Much like earlier positive changes such as reserved seating, this is another example of the high level of customer service on which we pride ourselves.”

Bow Tie Management owns and operates theaters in a number of states, including Connecticut and South Carolina. However, the Richmond location is the only one making this policy change.

Larrain said he’s not against the change but hopes that other theaters don’t get the same idea.

“I think it should stick right here,” he said. “If bigger companies started doing it, I feel like it would negate their profits.”

Reservations are now available to schedule a tour of the Richmond Virginia Temple during the public open house via RichmondTemple.org or reservations.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

The public open house runs Saturday, March 25, through Saturday, April 15, excluding Sundays and the April 1-2 weekend for April 2023 general conference. The first daily tours begin at 9 a.m. and the last tours start at 8 p.m. local time.

All ages are invited. The free tours include a short video and then a walking tour and lasts about 50 minutes. It is wheelchair accessible; and comfortable shoes and modest dress are also recommended, according to the open house information.

Tours on the Saturdays — March 25, April 8 and April 15 — are currently all reserved.

Located on 10915 Staples Mill Road in Glen Allen, the temple is a two-story building of a little more than 36,000 square feet. A 16,000-square-foot meetinghouse also was built on the property adjacent to the temple.

President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency, will dedicate the Richmond temple on Sunday, May 7.

President Russell M. Nelson announced a temple for Richmond, Virginia in April 2018 general conference, with ground broken two years later in April 2020. It will be the first temple in the state, which is home to more than 96,000 Latter-day Saints in over 215 congregations.

The new temple will serve Latter-day Saints from Virginia, the eastern part of West Virginia and the northeastern part of North Carolina.

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Other temple open houses

Public open house dates have been announced for the Columbus Ohio Temple from April 29 to May 13, 2023, prior to the Sunday, June 4, rededication by President M. Russell Ballard, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

For the Saratoga Springs Utah Temple, the open house is April 15 to July 8 prior to the Aug.13 dedication by President Henry B. Eyring, second counselor in the First Presidency.

Information about tour reservations will be available on reservations.ChurchofJesusChrist.org when it’s available.

Editor’s note: The assigned presiding Church leader has been updated on Feb. 21, 2023.