Homeless shelter cited for improper zoning
Pastor Harold Bare is excited. A couple of Sundays ago, he had a young man and woman stand up in church and announce that they were getting married.
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Homeless shelter cited for improper zoning
Notified that it must shut down
Pastor Harold Bare is excited. A couple of Sundays ago, he had a young man and woman stand up in church and announce that they were getting married.
Tax hawks encircle county supes
Just four years ago, Peter Wurzer retired from his position at the Dr. Pepper/7-Up company in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Albemarle to build his dream house. “For the first three years, I was busy with that house,” he says. “When I finally got finished, I said, ‘Let’s take a look at what’s going on,’ […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for the county for: 12 years Resides in: Lake Monticello in Fluvanna County Job title: Lieutenant in the Albemarle County Sheriff’s office. Responsibilities include overseeing the daily operation of state-mandated tasks—the courts, transports, and civil process divisions of the office. Sprouse makes daily trips to the jail to transport inmates and is on a […]
Decade-old serial rape case comes to close
After 10 years and seven violent sexual attacks that had been linked to him, Nathan Antonio Washington stood up in Charlottesville Circuit Court in his striped jail uniform and offered apologies to his family, his victims and the community he had kept on edge for nearly a decade.
Pub crawl ends with knife wound
What was supposed to be just another night out on the town ended with a man’s guts spilling from his side on Water Street, according to the transcript of the city General District Court preliminary hearing for Joseph Ray Wells, Jr., who is charged with felonies for mob assault and malicious wounding. One night last […]
Crash landing
Plaintiff: Norma Carrubba Defendant: United Airlines What’s at issue: Whether the airline was negligent for a fall Carrubba suffered while exiting an airplane. Carrubba’s complaint in U.S. District Court claims that on December 1, 2006, the Greene County resident boarded a plane in Charlottesville headed for Cleveland. In Cleveland, winds were at 45mph and it […]
Foreign-language news is no news
It’s really just four flat-screen TVs, stacked in a two-by-two square, not impressive in their size.
Mahoney named new law dean
Let the hiring season begin. UVA announced last week that Paul Mahoney will take over as law school dean when John Jeffries, who has held the post since 2001, steps down this summer. A University law professor since 1990, Mahoney’s specialties are on the corporate and financial sides of the law. He’s a graduate of […]
“Tired of Castro urinating on us”
With Fidel Castro having at last passed off power permanently, C-VILLE decided to pillage the audio archive at the Miller Center to take a trip back in the presidential time machine. Bypassing the more well-known Kennedy era, we opted to pull a few telephone tapes from Lyndon Johnson’s administration, and found this exchange with Senator […]
The hidden life of UVA
Kathy Tejano Year: Senior Age: 21 Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia Major: Systems engineering, with economics minor What’s in your backpack? Snowboard magazine, notebook, schedule, Personal Finance, green iPod mini, flash drive, chocolate chip granola bar, UVA sweatshirt, water bottle, pens, pencils, eraser, cell phone, wallet, contact lens solution, contact lens case, Portuguese/English mini dictionary, a couple […]