Every new school year brings with it certain back-to-school essentials: laptop, backpack, notebooks and, of course, a fake ID for Corner bar-hopping. Corner bars have been packed the last few weekends, and bouncers have been beefing up to scrutinize the good, the bad and the ugly of Wahoos’ fake IDs.A Corner bar ABC manager, who […]
Now that the chaos has subsided in the case of four Albemarle teens charged with conspiring to blow up two local schools, questions remain about a juvenile’s right to privacy versus the public’s right to know.
Otis Scott-Wilkins pleaded guilty Wednesday, September 6, to helping a group of teens beat up two boys, ages 14 and 17, near the Friendship Court housing project on Garrett Street. The April 21 attack just south of the Downtown Mall left the 14-year-old so badly injured that he had to have metal plates drilled into […]
Ralph Sampson, the former NBA star and three-time College Player of the Year for the Cavaliers will go to jail after a plea bargain with federal prosecutors over charges of mail fraud, according to several published news reports, including Sports Illustrated. This isn’t the first time Sampson has tried to run his game off the […]
As the new Charlottesville schools superintendent, Rosa Atkins may face a school system that’s slightly less troublesome than that her predecessors confronted. Recently released Standards of Learning (SOL) test scores show a picture of a school system improving in some areas, while stagnating in others. Sanctions have been lifted from Clark Elementary, part of an […]
The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, our area’s signature symphony, opens its 2006-2007 season with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in October, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in November and a Holiday concert in December. And they’ve got something else special this year: a new conductor, who just happens to have one more X chromosome than most […]
The FDA last month approved emergency contraceptive Plan B for over-the-counter use, and University of Virginia Student Health Center will sell the drug that way as soon as the product is repackaged. Student health officials and local Planned Parenthood workers are bracing for the political fallout of the drug becoming more available. “Certainly we are […]
On September 9, the rest of the UVA football team will be kicking off their first home game of the season against Wyoming. Former wide receiver Theirrien “Bud” Davis, however, will be sitting in jail, at the beginning of a three-month sentence earned for stealing from the UVA bookstore.
In more news from the teen bombing case that won’t quit, Albemarle County Judge Paul M. Peatross unsealed portions of records about the 16-year-old convicted of threatening to bomb two Albemarle schools. And another boy, now 17, who was pegged as the plot’s ringleader, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges Thursday, August 31, in Albemarle Circuit […]
The City and County police forces differ in standards for cops. For example, the Albemarle police force has more stringent academic requirements, while the City has stricter physical fitness standards. But the philosophies behind the standards are more complex than mere brains versus brawn. According to City Police Chief Timothy J. Longo, education requirements for […]