In little more than six hours, a Nelson County jury found Randy Allen Taylor guilty of abduction with intent to defile and first-degree murder in the commission of an abduction for the death of 17-year-old Alexis Murphy, who disappeared August 3 and whose body has not been found. A grim-looking jury that avoided looking at […]
In little more than six hours, a Nelson County jury found Randy Allen Taylor guilty of abduction with intent to defile and first-degree murder in the commission of an abduction for the death of 17-year-old Alexis Murphy, who disappeared August 3 and whose body has not been found. A grim-looking jury that avoided looking at […]
Last year, Charlottesville’s Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) filed a lawsuit seeking in-state college tuition for Virginia youth who immigrated to the U.S. illegally as children, and on April 29, the plaintiffs—including some from Albemarle County—won a major victory, though it wasn’t in the courtroom. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring stood in front of a […]
Both the prosecution and the defense rested their cases on May 7 in the trial of Randy Allen Taylor, 48, charged with the murder and abduction of Alexis Taylor, who was last seen with Taylor at the Liberty gas station in Lovingston on August 3. After closing arguments, during which both sides agreed on only […]
It took two years to get Bob Dylan organized, but a small software company nestled in Nelson County has finally done it. Bluewall Media recently helped Dylan and his staff archive and digitalize more than 60 years worth of his iconic music, photographs, written documents, video, and film footage. In the years to come, Dylan […]
It’s 3:30am on a Thursday, and I’m sloshing through a flooded stream near the confluence of the north and south forks of the Rivanna River in rubber boots that are just about an inch too short, straining to hear bird calls through a deafening chorus of spring peepers. I’ve done crazier things in the name […]
A week after 17-year-old Alexis Murphy was last seen at the Liberty gas station in Lovingston and her DNA had been found in his camper, Randy Taylor finally admitted Murphy had been at his property on August 3, the evening she disappeared, and claimed she was with a black man with cornrows who’d been driving […]
Last week’s release of a list of schools under investigation by the Department of Education for their handling of sexual assault cases has again drawn attention to UVA’s policies on rape. The fact that UVA is among the 55 schools targeted for Title IX investigations isn’t news; as C-VILLE reported last year, the DOE’s Office […]
Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Higgins will decide in the next month whether to set aside the abduction conviction against former Food Lion manager Mark Weiner, who alleges in a motion filed by his new attorney that his May 2013 trial was marred by perjury by his accuser, errors by his trial attorney, and […]
Randy Allen Taylor said he’d never seen 17-year-old Alexis Murphy before. He said he wasn’t at the Liberty gas station in Lovingston on August 3, the day the Nelson County teenager disappeared. And he said she had never, ever been in his camper in two separate interviews with police, recordings of which were played in […]
Each week, the news team takes a look at upcoming meetings and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle we think you should know about. Consider it a look into our datebook, and be sure to share newsworthy happenings in the comments section. The Albemarle County Architectural Review Board meets at 1pm Monday, May 5 at the […]