Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta is back at work after her arrest last week on multiple felony charges related to misuse of public funds, and the majority of the electoral board that has the power to fire her say they want to see her keep her position—at least until after the November elections. Iachetta and local […]
Charlottesville police announced Tuesday evening that they have issued a warrant for the arrest of Jesse Matthew for abduction with intent to defile in the case of missing UVA student Hannah Graham. In a packed 7pm press conference called just an hour before, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said Matthew, 32 and until now a […]
The family of missing UVA second-year Hannah Graham has issued a statement thanking the University community for support and asking for help in finding the 18-year-old girl, whom they say “would not disappear without contacting family and friends.” John and Susan Graham described their daughter as empathetic, highly responsible, and organized. “She loves the University of […]
It started over breakfast tacos. Alan Taylor and Johnny Pritzlaff of Riverbend Development—music mogul Coran Capshaw’s local real estate development company—were digging in one Saturday morning at Beer Run in January, talking about the future of the historic Coca Cola bottling plant at 722 Preston Avenue. The company had recently closed on the old plant, […]
If UVA third-year Sara Surface has to write a “how I spent my summer vacation” essay at the start of this semester, the gist would be something like this: Helped my school end rape culture. Surface, a global development studies major from Northern Virginia and a student leader with the University’s Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, […]
This week marks our first-ever pride issue—just in time for Charlottesville’s Pride Festival this weekend. Check out our other feature stories on what it was like to be gay at CHS in the ’90s, on UVA’s lack of gender-neutral housing for trans students, and on the festival itself. To wed, or not to wed? For gay couples […]
This week marks our first-ever pride issue—just in time for Charlottesville’s Pride Festival this weekend. Check out our other feature stories on deciding whether to marry as a gay couple, on UVA’s lack of gender-neutral housing for trans students, and on the festival itself. Here’s an “it gets better” stat for you: According to Equality […]
It came down to zip codes. That’s the official explanation from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), an arm of the Department of Defense, for discrepancies in its public records showing the quantity and type of military weapons distributed to local law enforcement agencies here. As reported by C-VILLE last week, statewide data released late last month […]
Dominion Resources has formally announced it will pursue its planned natural gas pipeline through Virginia as part of a multi-billion-dollar partnership with North Carolina electricity giant Duke Energy and two other energy companies. The proposed 550-mile pipeline, previously called the Southeast Reliability Project, is now dubbed the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Until the formal partnership announcement […]
Monticello High School’s athletic director and the vice president of a local sports equipment store admitted in federal court today that they worked together with another supplier to rig bids for the high school’s athletic equipment. U.S. Attorney Timothy Heaphy said in a news release Friday that between August 2008 and August 2010, Fitzgerald Arnette Barnes, […]