Andrew Alston, the man convicted of stabbing Walker Sisk 18 times in a drunken Corner brawl, has filed for bankruptcy following a $3 million civil lawsuit from the victim’s family. Alston served only two and a half years in jail for the voluntary manslaughter conviction, and a hearing will determine if he can dodge the lawsuit.
“I knew it would be a lot of work,” Curt Gleeson, communications director for Al Weed’s campaign says, “but I had no idea.” Apparently, the campaign trail for Virginia farmer, war vet and Democratic Congressional challenger Al Weed can get a little rocky. Hey, it’s no easy matter ousting a Republican incumbent in a House election in Virginia.
Though a September 7 Associated Press article noted an unusually high percentage of inter-sex fish in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, local experts say they’d need more research to determine if male fish growing eggs are cause for alarm in the increasingly developed and polluted Shenandoah watershed.
At the end of August, Charlottesville police indicted five former employees of the Whisper Ridge Behavioral Health facility on abuses ranging from sex with a minor while in a custodial role and contributing to delinquency to failing to report abuse.
Managing attorney for the Virginia Justice Center Tim Freilich debates his opponent’s tough-on-immigrants stance at the Northside Library Wednesday, September 13. “I agree with you on one thing,” Tim Freilich, managing attorney with the Virginia Justice Center for Farm and Immigrant Workers, a statewide project of the Legal Aid Justice Center said. “Our immigration system […]
On Sunday, September 10, a 21-year-old student survived a shot in the abdomen, which happened around 4am at a residence on Wertland Street. Police are looking for two black males who are suspected of trying to rob the student. The incident has Charlottesville police and University officials concerned with how students interact with the city […]
After a lawsuit between the Albemarle School Board and Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian rights advocacy group, the School Board changed a policy that prohibited religiously oriented flyers in schools. Now, a debate about which flyers to allow has schools weighing their role as community centers versus protective educational environments. A board meeting on Thursday, […]
Harvard’s September 12 announcement that it will abolish early decision has had other schools mulling their own admissions policies. An article in The Washington Post on Wednesday, September 13 quoted admissions officials about the pros and cons of early decision—apparently, less prestigious schools rely on early decision to cement their applicant pools, a problem Harvard […]
After another long, sticky Charlottesville summer, it’s almost that time again. Soon there’ll be a nip in the air, football playoffs on our TV sets, and turtlenecks peeking from every closet.
Muhammad Khatami, reformist president of Iran from 1997 until 2005, visited UVA last Thursday, September 7. He is the highest-ranking Iranian official to visit the United States since Iran’s revolution in 1979. While protests from UVA student groups were lukewarm, his visit to the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. later that afternoon saw about 200 […]