Bankrupt Circuit City Stores Inc., unable to work out a sale of the company, said Friday it will go out of business — closing its 567 U.S. stores and cutting 30,000 jobs. The nation's second-biggest ...

1949: Samuel S. Wurtzel opens first Wards Co. television and appliance store on West Broad Street in Richmond. 1974: The Wards Loading Dock opens on Thalbro Street in Henrico County. The 40,000-square ...

At the risk of dating myself, I’m old enough to remember the days when Best Buy had a formidable rival in superstore chains: Circuit City. A cross between an appliance store (at least until it stopped ...

Sept. 11, 1948: The date fell on a Saturday during a 12-year period (1940-52) when The Star didn’t publish on that day of the week. Sept. 11, 1998, in The Star: According to a full-page ad, Circuit ...

Around 2001, I recall talking with a lower-level Circuit City executive who had just left the company at a party in Richmond. I remember asking about the Alan McCullough era — the chief executive who ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — A former electronics store that was once envisioned as a future light rail station will soon be demolished. The one-time Circuit City building at 110 S. Independence Blvd. in Town ...