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Gene Cox

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  • Saturday, May 18 2013 6:13 PM EDT2013-05-18 22:13:12 GMT
    DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) - An emergency official says about 50 to 60 people were injured after car drove into a group of hikers at a parade in a small Virginia town.    Washington County director of emergency
    DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) - An emergency official says about 50 to 60 people were injured after car drove into a group of hikers at a parade in a small Virginia town.    Washington County director of emergency
  • Saturday, May 18 2013 4:51 PM EDT2013-05-18 20:51:47 GMT
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia's activist conservative attorney general beloved by the tea party for his aggressive challenges to federal mandates has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia's activist conservative attorney general beloved by the tea party for his aggressive challenges to federal mandates has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination
  • Saturday, May 18 2013 4:38 PM EDT2013-05-18 20:38:14 GMT
    PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) - The Coast Guard is searching in Virginia for two men whose small boat capsized in the Rappahannock River. The Coast Guard says a resident near Tappahannock noticed the 15-foot boat
    PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) - The Coast Guard is searching in Virginia for two men whose small boat capsized in the Rappahannock River. The Coast Guard says a resident near Tappahannock noticed the 15-foot boat

After a brief career as a school teacher in Maryland, Gene began TV news broadcasting at WSVA-TV (now WHSV) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He went from there to WMAR-TV in Baltimore in 1970 and then to WWBT-TV in Richmond eight years later. For the next 33 years Gene covered local, national and international stories. During this time Gene also worked as a reporter and won several awards, including two Emmys. His reporting took him abroad on several occasions, including assignments in Russia and Africa. After leaving WWBT, Gene joined the news department at WRIC-TV as co-anchor.

Gene and his artist wife Eleanor live in Midlothian. Their children and grandchildren live nearby.

Send Gene an email at gcox@wric.com