The Current: VCU athletes gets paid

🤑 VCU will start paying its student athletes next year as part of a settlement the school is opting into. (Times-Dispatch)

• It'll cost between $4-$5 million a year and means VCU's athletic department will have to find new revenue streams to make up the difference.

A nurse in Henrico Doctors' Hospital NICU was charged with felony counts of child abuse and malicious wounding after three infants were found to have unexplained fractures in November and December. (WTVR)

🗳️ 7th District council rep Cynthia Newbille was unanimously elected City Council president. (The Richmonder)

🌯 Scott's Shawarma will open a second Richmond location by spring in the former Sincero space at 404 N. Second St. in Jackson Ward. (BizSense)

• The owners are planning to close their West End location on Glenside.