Wife killer guilty of capital murder
On Saturday, November 20, 2004, John and Irene Powers drove up the long, wooded drive to their daughter’s secluded apartment outside Manassas. Two nights before, they had seen her at Outback Steakhouse,
Legal concerns for DNA databank
When Charlottesville Police Captain J.E. “Chip” Harding discovered about 20 percent of local felons who should have been included in the State DNA databank were missing, officials got pretty excited about solving the presumably statewide problem. House Bill 3034, sponsored by Albemarle Delegate Rob Bell, would grant authority and set up a system for swabbing […]
Region ten violated FOIA, judge finds
Judge Edward L. Hogshire found Region Ten Community Services Board (www.regionten.org) to be in violation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (www.usdoj.gove) for holding a closed meeting last February to discuss The Mews, a housing complex for its mentally disabled clients, The Daily Progress reports. Region Ten, a local mental health agency, will have […]
Two women attacked on corner
In the wee hours of January 29, two UVA students were sexually assaulted in the Corner/Wertland Street area between 12:30am and 2:30am. Though the incidents were no doubt scary and have Corner-hoppers on edge, the women reported their attacker was, well, kind of lame. Around 12:30, a 21-year-old student was walking home from Satellite Ballroom. […]
Ex-coach pleads guilty for kiddie porn
A former Albemarle High School JV girls’ soccer coach entered a plea agreement with federal prosecutors February 1 on counts of child pornography, attempting to obtain child pornography, and coercing minors into sexual acts over the Internet. Raja Charles Jabbour’s agreement says he will serve nine years in prison, then be deported from the country, […]
Are game wardens real cops?
After a 16-year-old was killed by a Greene County game warden during a traffic stop gone bad on January 24, the question has been raised as to why the warden was there in the first place. Shouldn’t game wardens be off busting sketchy hunters or educating people about inland fish? Are they really trained just […]
Places we love
Andrew Wyeth, the American painter, was said to have preferred winter, when a lack of annoyingly bright leaves allowed one to see the “bones of the landscape.” Clearly Wyeth never had to sludge from 14th Street to Newcomb Hall with a 30-pound backpack in 19-degree weather. Charlottesville does not wear winter well.But amidst the dreary […]
Once again, admissions time
People in Peabody Hall are drowning in papers: It’s February, deadlines for UVA’s undergraduate admissions (www.uva.edu) have passed, and it’s time for staff at the admissions office to get down to business with the mountains of forms and essays. According to admissions Dean John A. Blackburn, his staff is reading applications “about every night and […]
City Assessments rise 14 percent
Though the rest of Central Virginia’s housing market has slowed, Charlottesville apparently didn’t get the memo. The local real estate market is healthy, and assessments, just mailed to homeowners on January 31, went up again, showing Charlottesville residents the downside of living in one of America’s most desirable cities. According to the City Assessor’s office […]
Ayers: It’s still all about the benjamins
By some measures, UVA is tops. For one, it’s the only public school to be in the Top 20 for graduation rates (92 percent and above), and it has the highest African-American graduation rate of any public university, two stats which College of Arts & Sciences Dean Ed Ayers says are UVA’s “proudest.” But, the […]