READ MORE: Kiddie porn mushrooms online Task force also charged with tackling perverse images—tens of thousands at a time I log in as VA_Girl, a 13-year-old looking to meet people online. I’m a chat room virgin, and there are tons to choose from, with generic names like “Teen Spot” and “TeenChatNow.” I pick one at […]
Internet Crimes Against Children task forces work on both child enticement cases and child pornography cases, and the latter are becoming increasingly important. Albemarle Detective Chuck Marshall tells me when we begin to talk about ICAC that “at any given time there could be 40, 50, 60 people just in Charlottesville based on their IP […]
Last week, a baffling conflict unfolded about the Landmark Hotel, the nine-story construction project on the Downtown Mall at 200 E. Main St.
Tired of waiting for Albemarle County planning staff to approve his site plan, Richard Spurzem appealed to a higher power: the Albemarle County Circuit Court.
Even though the UVA football team has played relatively well at home this season, going 4-2, Scott Stadium has appeared somewhat empty.
Before a group of UVA students became interested in developing an alternative for leftover food from the Observatory Hill dining hall, uneaten mac and cheese or wilted salad was ending up in the garbage can. But that was then. On November 11, UVA kicked off the first of perhaps many trips to Panorama Pay-Dirt in […]
By way of the transitive property, the Cavaliers are better than the storied Wildcats. Kentucky blew its homeopener to the Virginia Military Institute on November 14, losing 111-103 to the Keydets, but the Cavaliers weren’t about to let the same thing happen to them, winning 107-97 in their first game of the season. Sophomore power […]
Just by threatening to show up in Charlottesville to put on their tired “God Hates Fags” routine, the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church spurred hundreds of students to protest the protesters on November 14. Westboro had posted on its website that the church, led by Fred Phelps, would come protest UVA’s performance of The Laramie […]
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Dear Ace: I heard Shenanigans is outselling Toys R Us! Can it be true?—Meryl Lynch Meryl: At first, Ace thought maybe this was a rouse. A rumor. Idle gossip, perhaps. Or maybe just a flat-out lie started to stir up trouble. (He’s nothing if not a dubious investigator.) And so, after a straight shot of […]