Though car crashes involving teens and alcohol tend to garner outsized public attention, they’re still relatively rare. Statewide numbers from the Department of Motor Vehicles show DUI-related deaths are actually down, especially for teens. Statewide, teen deaths in alcohol-related crashes declined about 24 percent, to 32 deaths from 42 in 2004. Alcohol-related accidents for all […]
One year after Albemarle delegate Rob Bell’s anti-bullying legislation came through, the numbers show the anti-bully bill has flexed little muscle in local schools. A statewide Crime and Violence Report for Virginia schools shows no reported incidents of bullying for Albemarle in 2005, and Charlottesville saw only 18 incidents last year. Still, school administrators say […]
The facts of the long, sad story remain largely unchanged. In 1982, Rebecca Lynn Williams, then 19, was raped, stabbed 38 times and left to die on the doorstep of her apartment in Culpeper while her two children were in another room. Earl Washington, Jr., a farm worker with an I.Q. under 70, was convicted in the rape and capital murder. Washington served 17 years in prisonânine and a half of those on death rowâbefore DNA evidence cleared him in 2000, prompting reforms to Virginia’s notorious 21-day rule.
A grand jury will decide this month whether to maintain a second-degree murder charge for Jermaine Leon Thurston, 22, who fatally shot 21-year-old Lamont Antonio Reaves in June. If the charges hold, Thurston could serve up to 40 years.
Nineteen-year-old Marcel McArthur Turner of Riverside Avenue in Charlottesville turned himself in to police on Monday, August 21, after shooting and wounding another Charlottesville man. Turner shot the victim, Earl Dudley, who was riding in a car near the intersection of Carlton and Nassau streets in the Belmont neighborhood.
Independent Senate candidate Gail “For Rail” Parker’s got a steady platform to build rail across Virginia, which she says will reduce emissions, save lives and even fix Iraq (less oil, more peace in the Middle East). Recently, C-VILLE tread the shaky ground on and off the platform of this third-party candidate.—Meg McEvoy C-VILLE: How much […]
UVA President John Casteen III welcomed the incoming class on Sunday, August 21. Among them, 180 students are transfers from Virginia’s community colleges, the highest number yet.
“We welcome you in a special way, because we have valued the collaboration of that system from its very beginning,” Casteen said.
The future site for North Pointe, a mixed-use development planned for Route 29N, just north of Profitt Road, seems less like a “places we’ll lose” and more like a place we’ve already lost. The now wooded land would be yet another link in a chain of developments—Forest Lakes South, Hollymead, Forest Lakes—that run along the […]
An Albemarle teen\’s appeal to circuit court proved fruitful on Wednesday, August 16, when a jury acquitted him of threatening to blow up two Albemarle high schools on the seventh anniversary of the Columbine shootings.