The Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women is located on an isolated piece of land off U.S. Route 250 in Troy, Virginia. Its cinderblock walls are white and clean, the staff are friendly as officers pass through a metal detector, raise their arms and get patted down. A series of heavy doors, painted government green, lead […]
Nestled within the city’s $140 million proposed budget is a line that provides $966,122 for an ambulance service for the city fire department. Officials say the new service will supplement the 47-year-old volunteer rescue
It could have been that the city’s budget and tax rate are of extreme importance to many citizens, especially middle-class homeowners getting squeezed by rising assessments. Or, it could have been that teachers at Charlottesville High School picked March 19’s City Council meeting as required attendance for dozens of yawning students scribbling on meeting worksheets. […]
William Beebe, the man who pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault in an incident at a 1984 UVA fraternity party was sentenced to 18 months in prison and taken into custody March 15.
The Interweb is a mysterious place, and e-mail, a main method of communication ’cross the nebulous tubes, is a touchy subject. E-mail at work is even touchier, given that companies own the equipment and the bandwidth. For Dena Bowers, the woman who’s currently suing UVA for her firing over an e-mail containing NAACP documents, issues […]
The city has announced the Jefferson School General Partnership, a private entity that will purchase the Jefferson School, keeping it eligible for $8 million in federal tax credits to restore the historic site.
Michael Andrew Nicholaou lived in Charlottesville only a short time. He drove a cab, worked as an undercover drug informant for the Charlottesville police and opened a porn shop called The Pleasure Chest. He wanted to become a police officer, but couldn’t pass the background check, former Charlottesville Police Chief John “Deke” Bowen recalls. Despite […]
A 16-year-old Charlottesville High School student is in critical condition after a shooting that occurred around 11pm, March 2, on Prospect Avenue. It has been reported that the teen was an innocent bystander who was shot by a semi-automatic weapon. A dark truck or SUV was seen leaving the scene. March 7, police arrested a […]
At UVA, Sara Larquier was a scholarship softball player from California, a politics major and your typical busy student, stuck with other Wahoos in the bubble of the Corner and Grounds.
Business undergrads are walking with some extra swagger this week thanks to news from BusinessWeek that the McIntire School of Commerce is ranked No. 2 nationally. BusinessWeek magazine ranked UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce second among the nation’s undergraduate business programs. Not bad, given that the top-ranked program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School […]