“People ask me where I live and I tell them Friendship Court, and they say, ‘I can’t believe you live there.’ It makes me feel bad,” says Justina, a woman who has lived in the low-income housing complex on the 400 block of Garrett Street for more than 15 years. Charles Martin, executive director of […]
A Charlottesville man faces the death penalty in Buckingham County for charges stemming from the March 9 shooting of Clarence Maurice Austin, whose body was dumped along a rural road off Route 20. Two other men face life in prison for abduction, robbery and murder charges. Theodore Calvin Timberlake of Charlottesville, Claude Lorenzo Booker of […]
A Greene County grand jury indicted game warden Robert Orrin Ham, III on charges of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of 16-year-old Allen Cochran. On January 24, Cochran was suspected of kidnapping his 15-year-old girlfriend. Ham was assisting police in a hunt for the teen when he pulled over Cochran’s vehicle, with his girlfriend inside, […]
Two parents who were convicted of providing alcohol to minors, and who tried to take their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be forced to serve a 27-month sentence.
Police now have three people in custody who, they suspect, fired bullets into a crowd of youths on Prospect Avenue on March 2, seriously injuring a 16-year-old Charlottesville High School student. One suspect is in custody at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Another is still in New York City, where he was picked up by […]
A cart full of about 20 laptop computers, meant as teaching tools for city elementary kids, was stolen, along with two desktop computers, on June 7, Charlottesville police say. The computers, many of them new, white Apple MacBooks, are worth about $25,000 total. Sometime after 6pm last Thursday, police suspect, one or more robbers broke […]
Hackers feasted on the personal information of 5,735 current and former UVA faculty members, including their birth dates and social security numbers, on 54 separate days between May 2005 and April 2007, a press release from University Relations announced on June 8. While identify theft at UVA might not be push-button easy, hackers have weaseled […]
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a well-known illness: A traumatizing event happens to someone and they experience trouble sleeping, memory loss and trouble learning new
The man who led county police on a car chase and three-hour manhunt entered a plea deal with prosecutors saying there’s enough evidence to convict him of the crimes, without
Imagine this scenario: A police officer gets called out to a “domestic,” typically a dangerous and volatile situation. On the scene, the officer encounters a “suspect” who’s acting distraught, irrational and intimidating his spouse. But, after a few seconds, the officer isn’t reaching for the cuffs. He’s talking it out with the guy, dissuading him […]