In May 2012, Barbara Fitch had no savings account, a battered credit score, and a lavish shoe buying habit. She had racked up hefty debt and was trapped in a high-rate loan for a used car, even though she was bringing in a steady paycheck as the catering sales manager at the Inn at Darden, […]
In May 2012, Barbara Fitch had no savings account, a battered credit score, and a lavish shoe buying habit. She had racked up hefty debt and was trapped in a high-rate loan for a used car, even though she was bringing in a steady paycheck as the catering sales manager at the Inn at Darden, […]
It’s just before midnight on an October Friday at UVA, and deep in the bowels of a stately brick mansion on Rugby Road, throngs of undergraduates in cutoffs and cowboy boots are packed shoulder to shoulder in a dingy room with a sticky floor, watching one drunk classmate after another mount and then be flung […]
The Medical Examiner’s Office in Richmond has confirmed that the remains found near a vacant home south of Charlottesville on October 18 are those of missing 18-year-old UVA student Hannah Graham, police announced Friday. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Graham family and Hannah’s friends during this incredibly difficult time,” read a release […]
Jefferson School City Center is a voice of the nine nonprofits located at Charlottesville’s intergenerational community center, the restored Jefferson School. We are a legacy preserved . . . a soul reborn . . . in the heart of Cville!
When André Hakes and Catherine Gillespie held up their hands to receive the oath of marriage from Charlottesville Circuit Court Clerk Llezelle Dugger on October 6, everybody who had crowded into Dugger’s office to watch and cheer knew the pair were the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage license in Charlottesville. What nobody realized […]
There was a lot of excitement in the Rio Road offices of Tucker Griffin Barnes on Monday, October 6. One of the firm’s partners, André Hakes, rushed out of the office at the news that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied the appeals of parties looking to uphold gay marriage bans in Virginia and elsewhere. […]
On November 4, voters in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District—that’s us—will go to the polls to elect a congressman and a senator. Well, at least some of the voters will go. In fact, a dismally paltry percentage of voters will go, and pundits, who consider the Fifth a safe Republican district, have already called the race […]
A grand jury has indicted two Charlottesville residents in connection with a May shooting on Hardy Drive that killed Oscar Nathaniel “Nat” Brown. The indictments charge Avery Fernando Gray Jr., 39, with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in a felony, malicious shooting, and possessing a firearm as a violent felon. Also charged is Brittany […]
On Friday, October 17, family members of several missing young women in Central Virginia marked the fifth anniversary of Morgan Harrington’s disappearance with a prayer that UVA student Hannah Graham would be found and that her parents, John and Sue Graham, would find some comfort in knowing what happened to their daughter after she vanished […]
The man accused of abducting missing UVA student Hannah Graham and connected through forensic evidence to the 2009 disappearance and death of Morgan Harrington now faces charges stemming from a 2005 sexual assault in Northern Virginia. Jesse “LJ” Matthew, 32, has been indicted on attempted capital murder, abduction, and sexual penetration with an object charges […]