The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter on Monday, July 17, to the Region Ten Community Services Board requesting they provide a list of things discussed at a closed meeting that took place on February 13. The meeting concerned The Mews at Little High project, a much-contested residential community for people with mental […]
Ah, summer in Charlottesville. A perfect time for outdoor concerts, evening strolls on the Mall and the sort of public profanity that causes bystanders to ask, “You kiss your mother with that mouth?” Public swearing/intoxication arrests totaled 22 in the city two weekends ago. But Charlottesville Police Captain Bryant Bibb says those arrests were mainly […]
The family of Walker Sisk, who was stabbed to death in November 2003, has served his killer, Andrew Alston, with a $3 million lawsuit. Alston was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for stabbing Sisk, a 22-year-old volunteer firefighter, 18 times in a drunken altercation at the corner of 14th and Wertland streets. He was released from […]
David Robert Brown, 35, was charged with grand larceny for stealing more than $1,000 from parking meters in the Water Street lot. Police caught him on camera around 1:45am Monday, July 17, tampering with meters. Meters were checked and cleared out by the City on June 13. When they were checked again June 30, about […]
A man who says a Charlottesville Police DNA dragnet violated his constitutional rights may be joined by other victims in a class-action suit. Larry Monroe of Charlottesville was one of 190 black men approached for a DNA sample as police attempted to catch a serial rapist. During the investigation, from late 2003 to April 2004, […]
UVA will open the 2006-07 school year with 80 new faculty, a talented (and tenure-able!) group of the nation’s best and brightest fledgling Wahoos. Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Gertrude Fraser says the school is competing “extremely well” with private and highly ranked public schools to attract faculty. They’re still working on diversity, though. UVA […]
A 21-year-old UVA graduate was struck by a train around 4am Wednesday, July 11, between Chancellor and 15th streets near the Corner. He was intoxicated and was sleeping on the tracks. Police found a substantial quantity of weed on him, as well.
The Virginia Supreme Court has created a commission that will make changes to courts statewide. The “Commission on Virginia Courts In the 21st Century: To Benefit All, To Exclude None,” or the “Futures Commission” is making about 170 recommendations about court structure, technology, administration and more. But a court clerks’ association is objecting to specific […]
Pocket bikes, or pocket rockets, those tiny versions of hot street bikes that have teenagers riding with their knees to their chins, are no longer allowed on Virginia’s public roads. Though they are really gangsta, at less than 24" tall the bikes are, um…kind of dangerous. The law, (Virginia Code 46.2-100), which took effect on […]
The Albemarle School Board will solidify policies that allow schools to discipline students for off-campus behavior. Since two parties in Albemarle and Crozet resulted in the death of 17-year-old Western Albemarle student Nolan Jenkins and the ticketing of dozens of teens, schools have been debating their role in battling underage drinking. A recommendation presented Thursday, […]