It’s way too early to be speculating about the Fiscal Year 2008 City Council budget (FY08), which will be completed in April and won’t take effect until July of next year. But, a presentation from Public Works showing nasty pool pump rooms, cracking sidewalks and a crumbling Belmont Bridge, among other horrors, has reminded councilors about all the maintenance needed in the city.
The case of a woman accused of withholding HIV medication from her adopted son ended in a hung jury last week. The woman could have faced up to five years in prison for felony child neglect in the treatment of her 15-year-old son, who was born HIV-positive. The boy was removed from the woman’s custody […]
On November 13, UVA\’s dean of the College of Arts & Sciences announced he would be leaving to become the ninth president of the private University of Richmond. For UVA, his loss is more than just a gap in personnel.
Some studies have shown that as many as 20 percent of Iraq’s injured suffer head trauma, making brain damage the “signature” injury of the war. A center in Charlottesville contracts with the Department of Defense to rehabilitate hundreds of those injured. Virginia NeuroCare is the only non-Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital to treat patients who are […]
On November 9, two days after voters cast their ballots, Virginians finally had a senator-elect when Republican incumbent George Allen conceded the race to Democrat Jim Webb, avoiding what could have been a lengthy recount in the last undecided Senate race in the country. Webb led the former governor by 7,300 votes.
A man who was acquitted of child sex charges in Madison has been brought up on related charges in Albemarle County. Oscar Robert Lemen faces 18 indictments on various charges, including forcible sodomy, penetration with an inanimate object, aggravated sexual battery and attempted rape. All these crimes allegedly occurred with one female victim between November […]
Two major UVA projects were up for review in the City and County earlier this month. A parking garage set for W. Main Street got the nod from City Council, and the County Planning Commission approved additional square footage for Fontaine Research Park. A special-use permit was approved by City Council for a parking garage […]
Dean of UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Edward L. Ayers will step down from his position at UVA to take a job as the ninth president of the private University of Richmond this summer. Ayers is also currently the Hugh P. Kelley Professor in the UVA history department. An eminent “New […]
Margaret Edds, a journalist for The Virginian-Pilot, was drawn to the Earl Washington Jr. story when she began writing editorials against the death penalty. Washington, a mildly retarded man, was sent to death row for the 1982 rape and murder of a Culpeper woman.
State police pledged “no new victims” on Halloween this year, vowing to keep trick-or-treating children safe from sexual predators. So, they continued an annual program called “Operation Trick No Treat” that requires sex offenders to stay at home with their lights off or attend a meeting during prime trick-or-treating hours.