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. […]
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, […]
Nauseating smells from a wastewater treatment plant have long plagued the neighborhoods of Belmont-Carlton, Woolen Mills and others nearby. After a series of semi-unsuccessful smell-combatting projects, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority says these odors may finally meet their match. RWSA Executive Director Tom Frederick, a member of RWSA since 2004, says the smells from […]
With Trump Winery and the Albemarle Estate situated on a massive 1,300-acre plot south of Charlottesville, some Central Virginians may have more ties to the Trump family than they’d like. Others take advantage of it. Robert Harllee, owner of the Market Street Wineshops, tells the story of a liberal couple who visited his store in […]
The Associated Press investigation the week before Christmas revealing that slave labor routinely is used in Thailand to clean and peel the shrimp that makes its way into major American grocery chain freezers has some locals fretting about whether to serve the nation’s favorite crustacean over the holidays. AP reporters followed and filmed freshly peeled […]
Looking back on the last year, it’s clear why Charlottesville was named the No. 2 most exciting city in Virginia (actually, we’d make the case for No. 1). Our town was propelled into the national spotlight for high-profile events such as Martese Johnson’s altercation with ABC agents and Jesse Matthew receiving three life sentences in […]
Robert Davis stepped outside the walls of a prison as a free man today for the first time since he was arrested at gunpoint nearly 13 years ago. Governor Terry McAuliffe issued a conditional pardon in a case that experts have called a textbook case of false confession. After being released from Coffeewood Correctional Center […]
A Riverheads High School world geography teacher in Staunton is being accused of attempting to convert her students to Islam. On the subject of major world religions, Cheryl LaPorte assigned a worksheet on Islam that included an exercise about the difficulty of writing calligraphy. Students were asked to imitate the Shahada, or the Islamic statement […]
A group of Charlottesville High School students are on an espionage mission from NASA to capture photographs of a competitor satellite while managing a limited store of energy and avoiding having their own satellite’s photo snatched by the competitor. BACON, or the Best All-around Club of Nerds, has been doing a pretty good job at it, […]
The status hearing for accused murderer Jesse Matthew had the former Monticello High student in court December 17 for what was basically the postponement of scheduling a motion hearing to bring in uncharged crimes during sentencing, should he be convicted of the murder, abduction and capital murder of Hannah Graham in July. Garnering more attention during the brief […]