New player: Long & Foster entices agents from Real Estate III

Long & Foster, the largest independently owned real estate company in the country, has set up shop in four Charlottesville-area offices and taken a big chunk out of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate III, with nearly 60 top agents defecting to the new firm. “Our missing link for years has been Charlottesville,” said Long […]

Landowners respond to Dominion pipeline survey lawsuits

This updated and expanded story includes reporting from a previous, shorter piece on Dominion’s pipeline lawsuits posted late last month. This week, courts in Nelson and Augusta counties are expected to start delivering Dominion Resource’s Christmas present to landowners there: the first of dozens of lawsuits, announced last month, against holdout residents who since May […]

Jesse Matthew to appear in Fairfax court

Accused abductor Jesse Matthew, 33, will appear in court January 8 and 9 in Fairfax County for motions hearings pertaining to a 2005 rape in which he’s charged with attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and sexual assault. Matthew’s attorney, former Albemarle commonwealth’s attorney Jim Camblos, is seeking a gag order and money […]

Charlottesville City Council backs mall camera study

A majority of the Charlottesville City Council agreed Monday night to study the cost and impacts of installing of publicly owned security cameras on the city’s Downtown Mall, the West Main Street corridor and the University Corner. Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo and city Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman made the case for the cameras in […]

UPDATE: Police say man accidentally fell to his death in Water St. garage

UPDATE 12:45pm Friday, January 2: Police have identified the person found dead in the Water Street parking garage New Year’s Day as Justin Michael Frazier, 24, of Crozet, and have said video surveillance indicates Frazier was the victim of an accidental fall. In a follow-up press release issued Friday, Charlottesville Police Lieutenant Steve Upman said detectives […]

C-VILLE’s newsmakers of 2014

This year, Charlottesville’s local news was national news. Below, we take a look the people behind the biggest headlines of 2014 —and explain why you should be watching them in the months to come. No. 1: Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo If local residents weren’t able to recognize Tim Longo by sight at the beginning […]

Upstart Internet provider Ting is bringing gigabit speeds to C’ville

Finally, a little good news for Charlottesville in the national media: The city made tech and financial headlines last week when mobile company Ting announced it was buying a controlling share in locally owned Blue Ridge InternetWorks as part of a plan to expand a lightning-fast fiber optic cable network here. Ting entered the wireless […]

Rutherford Institute weighs in on handcuffed 4-year-old

Local civil rights organization founder John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute sent a stern letter to Andrea Whitmarsh, superintendent of Greene County Schools, about policies that allowed an out-of-control 4-year-old to be handcuffed, carted away by a Greene County sheriff’s deputy and shackled at the sheriff’s office October 16 until his mother, who was en […]

UPDATED: Details in Sage Smith disappearance come to light

Below is the original version of the story on new information in the Sage Smith investigation, which ran online on December 24.  More than two years after Dashad Sage Smith went missing, recently unsealed court documents are offering information about the case that until now was unknown to the press and public. The records, which include search warrant […]