Firefighters helped cordon off the area around a gas leak in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Court on High Street. Workers installing a sprinkler system for the building inadvertently cut through a main city gas line around 9:30am on Tuesday, December 12, making the area highly flammable—responders weren’t supposed to so much as touch each […]
By Will Goldsmith, Cathy Harding and Meg McEvoy GOVERNMENT Due to the alcohol-related death of Albemarle High School student Nolan Jenkins in a car accident in May, the Albemarle School Board examined off-campus partying and schools’ alcohol policies. Meanwhile, Virginia closed a loophole that allowed parents to serve alcohol to underage guests. In a campaign […]
By Will Goldsmith, Cathy Harding and Meg McEvoyObjects of his affection Lawsuits breathing down his neck, scandals tailing him from South Africa and the U.K., Jeremy Harvey did what only Jeremy Harvey could do: The 62-year-old local investment banker tied the knot for the second time with 81-year-old newspaper heiress Betty Scripps in Las Vegas […]
Oh-six was a year of contradictions and confounded assumptions. The Republican incumbent who was supposed to be unbeatable for the Senate enacted his own Chernobyl-like meltdown; “affordable housing,” the presumed cause du jour, turned into a dictionary game …
His only crime is breaking hearts, but with a mug like that, we’re more than happy to include George Clooney on our blotter. Oh and now that he’s made a deal with our favorite local courts and crime hero (and handsome man in his own right) John Grisham
Tuesday, December 5 Pardon? Percy Levar Walton, on death row for three brutal homicides, had his execution stayed this summer pending an investigation of his mental competence. Governor Tim Kaine’s office today announced that Walton has been found unfit for execution. People who are executed in the United States must be aware of “the punishment […]
CORRECTIONS: Recent coverage of the William Beebe case [“Beebe pleads guilty to reduced charge,” Courts & Crime News, November 21] misstated the type of contact that Beebe and Liz Seccuro had about a sexual encounter that occurred between them at UVA in 1984. They did not, in fact, begin phone conversations last year nor did […]
Anathallo, with Shapiro and Page FranceStarr Hill Music HallThursday, November 30 Performing like a well-oiled machine, Anathallo disappointed. music When a band introduces its second song of the evening as “a song for the heavy-hearted”—as Anathallo did Wednesday night at Starr Hill—you have a pretty quick idea of what you’re in for. While most […]
The inexorable march to fill all empty city lots continues at the southern edge of Belmont. Dozers are grading in preparation for 29 residential units in the Carter’s View development—single-family detached housing with three-four bedrooms. Southern Development Homes, which bought the completed subdivision plan from Legend Development, expects it to be complete by the end […]
Tuesday, November 28 Bring on the bike shorts: The Tour of Shenandoah grows up and becomes the Tour of Virginia, upping its competitiveness and adding Charlottesville to its list of cities. I want to ride my bicycle For four years, the Tour of Shenandoah was billed as a development race for cyclists ages 25 and […]