The suspect in the September 30 homicide on Commonwealth Drive has at last been apprehended. Daniel Lee Dove, a 28-year-old Louisa County resident, was arrested in Hyattsville, Maryland, at around 11am this morning by U.S. Marshals.
For 58 minutes, the University of Virginia football team appeared doomed to lose on a chilly, overcast afternoon in Scott Stadium. Though they were only down 10-3 and about to get the ball,
If you haven’t yet seen negative ads against Tom Perriello, get ready. With less than three weeks until election day, Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode has more than double the amount of spending money of his Democratic challenger, according to financial disclosures filed yesterday to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Dennis J. Seese, a “citizen reporter†for The Huffington Post (as well as a local librarian), draws on the wisdom of C-VILLE in a post in which he tries to comprehend the minds of the voters in the Fifth District (something C-VILLE mined in its cover story about Tom Perriello last week).
Mike Stark is at it again. The UVA law student by day and GOP-stalker by night helped sink George Allen’s foundering re-election campaign in 2006 by getting dragged out of the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville and has since been fighting the Bill O’Reillys of the world.
At its retreat last month, City Council identified affordable housing as the priority that needed the most attention. The city has $1.4 million set aside for this year, and has committed to spending at least $1 million for the next four years on the issues. Yet at a work session last week, some councilors questioned […]
After at least a year’s worth of delays, ground has finally been broken on the new condo project at the old Gleason building. Since units have been on sale since at least 2006, what took so long? “It’s had nothing to do with interest,” says J.P. Williamson of developer Octagon Partners. “It’s a difficult […]
Halsey Minor, the sometimes Albemarle resident who’s backing the nine-story hotel rising on the Downtown Mall, has fired back at Sotheby’s, the auction house that sued him last month for not paying for $16.8 million in art work, by filing a class action law suit in California federal court against the company claiming fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and deceptive practices.
A new poll by SurveyUSA shows that Tom Perriello has made significant progress in the past two months, closing the gap by 21 points on Virgil Goode in the race for the Fifth District.
After talking for months in general terms about impending budget cuts, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine announced today a more detailed plan to address a $973 million revenue shortfall in the current fiscal year, which runs through 2009. About $400 million will come from the “Revenue Stablization Fund,†but the rest is mostly coming through spending reductions and state agency cuts.