Mayor David Brown looked around at the thin crowd at May 7’s City Council meeting and asked if there were any speakers for a public comment session on the cigarette tax. The few remaining audience members looked around at each other, likely trying to figure out which people were secretly tobacco users, cursing the progressive […]
People in suits, sundresses and heels are milling around three tables laden with food—salsa, chips, doughy cookies, veggies. The setting resembles someone’s vacation condo—warm brown walls, wood floors, eclectic upholstery. A copy of The Well Adult sits on the coffee table; tribal-sounding music plays on a boom-box in the background. A front desk is at […]
New information will be added to the state database of criminal records that prevents felons and others from legally buying firearms, per an executive order by Governor Tim Kaine,
Anthony Dale Crawford, the Manassas man who shot his wife, raped her and positioned her body in a room at the Quality Inn on Emmet Street, will serve two life sentences plus 67 years for his crimes, a judge upheld May 3. The jury recommended the sentence in February in a trial for one of […]
When the weather’s warm, watch out: Criminals, just like law-abiding citizens, are likely about. That’s according to Albemarle County Police Lieutenant John Teixeira, who jokes that February is his favorite month because it’s cold and “all the bad guys are inside.” County police have had a fair number of robberies on their hands lately, the […]
A young woman from Nelson County has been charged on two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Alishia Stewart is accused of giving alcohol to a 15-year-old Western Albemarle High School student. Stewart, 24, is the junior varsity softball coach for WAHS. She is not a teacher at the school.County police began […]
It’s been said that the Wahoo, the fish that shares its name with UVA students, can drink twice its weight in water. But the Wahoo isn’t all play—this heavy drinkin’ seafarer is also pulling its weight as a fundraiser for UVA’s Alumni Association. If you’re a recent graduate of the University, you may have received […]
Poor funding for the mental health care system has long been an issue for state legislators. But focus has returned to the state of mental health care since the shootings at Virginia Tech university, in which deranged gunman Seung-Hui Cho, likely in serious need of psychological help, shot 32 people to death before killing himself. […]
“Both nationally and at UVA we are faced with high-volume, high-risk, and very serious illnesses,” Dr. Russ Federman said of campus counseling centers at a recent Senate committee hearing on campus safety. Following the Virginia Tech massacre, Federman has the ear of federal legislators under pressure to find fixes to prevent mentally ill students from […]
My day to talk with Dr. Russ Federman about mental health at UVA comes just two days after the Virginia Tech shooting.