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The Washington Post reports that state Republicans are calling for Governor Tim Kaine to reinstate funding for abstinence-only education.

April 30, people: Mark it down. The Boss is back with the E Street Band, and the whole lot of them are coming to Charlottesville.

The debate surrounding a second vehicular crossing of the Downtown Mall just got a lot more confusing.

The bureaucratic snag that kept developer Wendell Wood’s preliminary site plan for a 15-acre office and housing project adjacent to the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) has let loose its grasp. This time around, the project sailed through with approval from the Albemarle County Planning Commission on November 13. The Planning Commission had no problem […]

C-VILLE recently noticed the Cherry Avenue IGA for sale on an online property listings website. "Central to everything going on," reads the ad. Perhaps… as long as everything includes prostitution. The ad claims that the site can house 80 units per acre, when in fact zoning only allows up to 43 units per acre by-right—anything […]

Two days after Michael Stuart Pritchett and William Douglas Gentry, Jr. were arrested for the murder of Jayne Warren McGowan, Pritchett’s grandfather issued a public statement of his "deepest regrets" to McGowans’s family. It brought the family of the alleged killers into the light, making a connection that is often put forward when evaluating the […]

Local civil rights Attorney Deborah Wyatt is on the verge of retirement, but some of her courtroom adversaries just won’t let her go. In the midst of battling federal sanctions brought by UVA attorneys over her conduct in a wrongful termination lawsuit, Wyatt successfully fended off charges of the obscure crime of "embracery," brought by […]

Sexual abuse charges against Bryan Antwann Vaughan have been dropped because an alleged victim can’t be found. On November 14, Vaughan appeared in the Charlottesville Circuit Court to be tried, only to have the case suspended indefinitely. The assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney, Elizabeth Killeen, asked that the charges be "null prossed," or not prosecuted, at this […]

In 1969, Richard J. Bonnie was teaching at UVA's School of Law, from which he had just graduated, when he read about a case in Roanoke that involved a sentence of 20 years in jail for possession of a small amount of marijuana.

Ben Wiley Year: Senior Major: French and English Home town: Richmond Backpack contents: Notebook, binder, personal checks, Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, Jean de Lery’s Histoire d’un Voyage Faict en la Terre du Bresil