Until he got busted this month for possession of child pornography and witness tampering, few knew Kevin Alfred Strom was more than just our friendly neighborhood white supremacist. A resident of Earlysville, Strom would collaborate on racist, anti-Semitic “American Dissident Voices” radio broadcasts, post nationalist messages on www.cvillenews.com and was involved in a 2005 incident […]
It’s tough being a kid. Apparently it’s even tougher being a kid in the Central Virginia justice system as trends skew toward treating juvenile offenders more like adult criminals.
Keeping up with these court cases is an endeavor that never lets you down—there’s always an update, an appeal or a motion. Here’s to folks who make their way in the court system, month after month, year after year. The Ivy Landfill deathIn April 2003, Patricia Stephens’ husband, Wayne, was killed in an accident involving […]
In December, Governor Tim Kaine (www.governor.virginia.gov) announced his plan to soak up $1 billion in surplus funds with budget amendments—though it remains to be seen whether the General Assembly will buy any of it. Here, a quick summary of what it might mean for us: Kaine has proposed to spend half the surplus, or $500 […]
Each holiday season, Holly Edwards, chairperson for Charlottesville’s Public Housing Association of Residents (PHAR) watches It’s a Wonderful Life. This year, she said at a City Council meeting January 2, “It resonated to me that George Bailey saved his family’s savings and loan to provide affordable housing for the citizens.”
Recently, the Charlottesville area was profiled on USA Today’s real estate pages, and it offered some pretty keen observations, such as: It’s expensive as hell to buy property here. If you were looking for a single family home—not a Walker Square condo—in the month of November, the median home price in Charlottesville was $317,410, up […]
Though the calendar turns to a new page, 2006’s court drama follows into the new year. Here’s the first installment in a series of hot cases to keep your eye on in 2007:
A jury on January 5 delivered a guilty verdict for Jermaine Leon Thurston, a 22-year-old who said he shot another man in self defense. Initially charged with second degree murder, Thurston acted without malice when he shot Lamont Antonio Reaves jurors decided in the Charlottesville Circuit Court, convicting him of voluntary manslaughter. On June 18, […]
In an ongoing mystery surrounding a murder that happened in a Carlton Road trailer park in March 2004, the much-older boyfriend of 18-year-old Azlee Hickman has been arrested for perjury for statements he made during trial. Another man is already serving a sentence for accessory to Hickman’s murder, but prosecutors have yet to pin anyone […]
As the Downtown Mall continually snazzifies with boutiques and restaurants, vacant rental spaces supposedly get snapped up like hot cakes by businesses eager to join the bustle. If that’s true, then why are there so many Debbie Downer empty buildings spoiling the splendor? Not including buildings we know are currently being redeveloped, we confirmed roughly […]