Pets may be strictly prohibited at Ragged Mountain Natural Area, but some say wanton disregard of the rules could cause serious health effects for those in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Albemarle resident Marlene Condon says she sees several dogs each time she visits Ragged Mountain, with about 50 percent of them not being held on […]
The overall goal of any SWAT team is to save lives, says Lieutenant Steve Upman with the Charlottesville Police Department. The January 5 standoff between city, county and university police and a suspected bank robber marked the second standoff of the year. “The two callouts over the last few days are out of the norm […]
Last week, three locals were reported missing and only one has been found. Joseph Carroll Breeden, 38, was last seen at the Hollymead Town Center Five Guys Burgers and Fries, where he works, at 7:30pm Wednesday, January 6. At 8pm, he was captured on video at a UVA library. At 5 feet 9 inches and […]
The space for a 7,000-square-foot private club on West Market Street was purchased in 2013, and what plans call a “brick and mortar establishment” may be one step closer to becoming a reality. A joint public hearing between Charlottesville City Council and the City Planning Commission was held Tuesday night after C-VILLE went to press, […]
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad hopes to increase the size of its building, which has been nestled on McIntire Road since 1964, to give volunteers more space to meet and make it possible to accommodate the increasing size of emergency vehicles. “The trucks don’t fit,” says Chief Dayton Haugh. “It’s 2015.” In May, CARS submitted an […]
Following the December 29 death of 55- year-old Philip Weber III, known as Charlottesville’s “Running Man,” an ultra marathoner and running club board member makes suggestions for safe running. Weber was struck and killed by a 2001 Isuzu Trooper on Ivy Road around 7am. At the time of the incident, police closed the westbound lane […]
Not one to shy away from a camera, a Charlottesville man and Internet celebrity had a more somber cameo than he’s used to during January 4 video appearances in Charlottesville General District Court and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. A day after a police standoff, which lasted several hours and required the presence of a […]
“Everything in that house will be ruined,” homeowner Marcus Shifflett said when police began shooting what appeared to be tear gas into a 6th Street Southeast home he rents to a tenant. “Furniture, clothes, everything.” The Downtown Mall’s Union Bank and Trust was robbed January 4, and city spokesperson Miriam Dickler says police obtained a […]
The man charged with killing two people at Charlottesville’s coal tower in August 2001 was found unresponsive and unconscious in a blood-smeared, solitary confinement cell at Wise County’s Red Onion State Prison in April 2014, bound by a makeshift rope tied around his neck and ankles and with a three-quarters-inch slit on his left wrist. […]
A real estate firm out of Virginia Beach has signed five leases at 5th Street Station, a soon-to-be 465,000-square-foot shopping center on Fifth Street. The 72-acre space has already promised a Wegmans, but thanks to the 66,900 square feet Divaris Real Estate has signed off on, locals can now expect a Havertys Furniture, A.C. Moore, […]