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Donald Trump has once again weaponized the FBI to attack his political opponents. The timing of the raid on state Senator Louise Lucas is deeply inappropriate. Virginia Democrats must stand up for our democracy and rule of law. Abigail Spanberger's response to the president's most recent attack on our legal system is cowardly — she must come out strongly to defend Virginia Democrats against Trump's "Red Scare" tactics, pardoning his allies and using the full might of the federal government to attack Democrats and former Republicans.

From the Archives: Photos of the 2004 fire on West Broad Street

Times-Dispatch front page March 27, 2004

FIRE — As firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004, one of their engines burns.
JOE MAHONEY

RICHMOND FIRE — Flames from fire in a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. cross Broad St. in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
JOE MAHONEY

FIRE04BB — Fire engulfs the Virginia Commonwealth University student housing building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. in Richmond, VA Friday, March 26, 2004.
BOB BROWN

FIRE02BB — Fire engulfs the Virginia Commonwealth University student housing building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. in Richmond, VA Friday, March 26, 2004.
BOB BROWN

FIRE01BB — Fire engulfs the VCU student housing building under construction in the 900 block of West Broad Street on March 26, 2004. Some firefighters suffered smoke inhalation and chest pains and were taken to the hospital, and one fatality was reported as a result of the blaze.
BOB BROWN, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE08BB — Bystanders watch on March 26, 2004, as fire engulfs the VCU student housing building under construction in the 900 block of West Broad Street in Richmond. Crews had spent nearly a year building up Broad Street and had to start over again.
BOB BROWN, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE09BB — Eric Jones, 18, left, and his friend Shelby Majer, 18, watch from the roof of The Chesterfield building on West Grace Street in Richmond on March 26, 2004, as fire engulfs the VCU student housing building under construction in the 900 block of West Broad. It would take years for the scar left by the fire to fully heal.
BOB BROWN, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE07BB — Fire engulfs the Virginia Commonwealth University student housing building under construction in the 900 block of West Broad Street on March 26, 2004. The site was at Shafer and West Broad streets across from the university’s School of the Arts.
BOB BROWN, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE03BB — Fire engulfs the Virginia Commonwealth University student housing building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. in Richmond, VA Friday, March 26, 2004.
BOB BROWN

FIRE06BB — Fire engulfs the Virginia Commonwealth University student housing building under construction in the 900 block of West Broad Street on March 26, 2004. The fire marshal ruled that a lit cigarette thrown into a construction site dumpster filled with building materials and scraps of insulation had sparked the devastation.
BOB BROWN, TIMES-DISPATCH

RICHMOND FIRE — People vacate a residential building on the VCU campus as flames from fire in a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. cross Broad St. in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIRE — Captain Carlton G. Edwards of the VCU Police Dept. directs pedestrians to clear the street as flames from fire in a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. cross Broad St. in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
JOE MAHONEY

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
JOE MAHONEY

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

RICHMOND FIRE — Workman's glove smolder a block from a fire in a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIRE — Fire blankets the back porch of a house on Clay St., two blocks north of where the original fire began in a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIRE — Henry Timmons walks away from a burning house on Clay St. Fire from a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. spewed flaming debris which jumped several blocks and later crossed I-95, more than a quarter mile away in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

2004 Broad Street fire

2004 Broad Street fire

2004 Broad Street fire

2004 Broad Street fire

2004 Broad Street fire

2004 Broad Street fire — Fire at a VCU building (back of building) that started from a trash shoot at 12:30pm.
No Credit

RICHMOND FIRE — Flames from fire in a building under construction in the 900 block of W. Broad St. cross Broad St. in Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04. On the right is the VCU bookstore
DEAN HOFFMEYER

FIRE09LKR — Aerial photo of VCU fire scence taken from south of Broad looking north with I-95 at top of frame.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE07LKR — Aerial photo of VCU fire scence taken looking west on Broad.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE08LKR — Aerial photo of VCU fire scene looking west across Goshen St.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE — The blaze was the worst three-alarm fire the city had seen since its surrender to the Union Army in April 1865.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond on March 26, 2004. It took most of the day and more than 100 firefighters to put out the flames.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN photos, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond on March 26, 2004. The fire destroyed more than 20 buildings, many of them businesses and homes, resulting in an estimated $20 million in damage.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN, TIMES-DISPATCH

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE01LKR — Aerial photo of VCU fire scence taken from south of Broad looking north.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
LINDY KEAST RODMAN

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
JOE MAHONEY

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
JOE MAHONEY

FIRE — Firefighters battle a major blaze in the Virginia Commonwealth University area of Richmond, Va., Fri., March 26, 2004.
JOE MAHONEY

RICHMOND FIRE002 — Richmond firefighter Robbie Hagaman. 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

2FIRE CDB — Burned out truck on Broad St.
Cindy Blanchard

broad3 — William Clements with the Richmond Fire Dept Quint 1 talks about soaking the hot spots on the VCU building on Broad Street. 3/27/04
CINDY BLANCHARD

broad1 — Jess Pruett looks through the window of Aladdin Express on the corner of N Laurel Street and Broad Street where someone left their food and chess game possibly after the fire on Broad Street broke out on Friday. 3/27/04
CINDY BLANCHARD

2FIRE04dl — Fire aftermath. 2 fire units pour water on the burned out building on Broad St.
DON LONG

2FIRE02dl — Fire aftermath. Henry Timmons tells how mtried to save his neighbors, behind him, house with a garden hose. He's telling how the wind spread the fire.
DON LONG

RICHMOND FIREFIGHTER — Richmond firefighter Robbie Hagaman walks in an alley behind a burned building after a massive downtown blaze on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIRE — Suliman Giddo with the Red Cross surveys the damage to buildings affected by the downtown fire on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIREFIGHTERS — Richmond firefighter Robbie Hagaman collects hoses after a downtown blaze on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIREFIGHTERS — Firefighter trainee Jody Moore rests with others on the median of Broad St. after a large fire in downtown Richmond, Va. on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

RICHMOND FIRE — Richmond firefighter Charles Barkley arrives on the scene of a house fire on Clay St. in Richmond on 3/26/04.
DEAN HOFFMEYER

FIRE01CSB — Richmond police officers check on residents in the 900 block of West Clay Street on March 26, 2004, after the VCU Broad Street fire spread to the neighborhood north of the blaze. Officers went door to door to evacuate residents.
CLEMENT BRITT

FIRE01CSB — Police officers check on a house on West Clay Street on March 26, 2004, after the VCU Broad Street fire spread to the Carver neighborhood.
CLEMENT BRITT photos