An embarrassing arrest [April 1]

Today brings a press release from the UVA Police that we can only imagine the brass in the athletics office dearly wishes was an April Fool’s joke. J’Courtney Williams, a noted redshirt freshman linebacker for Virginia, has been charged with credit card theft and credit card fraud, along with one other student, Lester Guy Spellman III.

Many will enter, few will win [March 29]

What did we learn from the 33rd annual Charlottesville Ten Miler? That runners from outside the area are gunning for our local pavement pounders! A record 2,525 runners took off at the start of the race on a chilly, 50-degree morning; the first finisher, 24-year-old Charlie Hurt of Scottsville, crossed the line 51 minutes later. […]

The stuff of legends [March 30]

UVA-baseball-player-turned-Major-League-wunderkind Ryan Zimmerman continues to cement his place in Washington Nationals lore. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Zimmerman hit a walk-off homer today to give the Nats a win in their first game in their new $661 million stadium. “There’s something about him,” said Zimmerman’s teammate, Dmitri Young, in an ESPN.com […]

That Hemings matter again [March 31]

In today’s installment of his This Land column in The New York Times, Dan Barry visits Monticello to investigate everyone’s favorite local race-related conundrum—the relationship of Thomas Jefferson to his slave Sally Hemings.

Gunman fires at vehicles on I-64 [March 27]

Interstate-64 between exit 118 in Charlottesville and exit 96 in Waynesboro was closed for several hours this morning, as police investigated a shooting in which two people were wounded, and up to four cars may have been hit by gunfire, according to NBC29.