After issuing zoning violations to several Charlottesville city homeless shelters that have or threaten to shut down their operations, the city is considering changes to the process that could make it easier for shelters to get special-use permits to operate.
To pay for an expanded local transit network, local officials were banking on the ability of a new regional transit authority to levy local taxes and fees. The Board of Supervisors and City Council had planned to ask Richmond for enabling legislation in the 2009 session. But that concept took a serious hit February 29 […]
Worked for the county for: 10.5 years Resides in: Charlottesville Job title: As deputy court clerk, Minahan specializes in recording county real estate transactions, issuing marriage certificates and wills, and documenting court judgments. Her favorite duties include swearing in new policemen, sheriffs and preachers. Best of times: “One time while searching for someone else’s record, […]
As lawyers re-created it in Charlottesville Circuit Court a year later, March 2, 2007 was a tragic day for Javier Garcia.
Doris Knight Fultz blames Food Lion after tripping on the bars beside this ATM machine, but the grocery store won the first legal round. Plaintiff: Doris Knight Fultz Defendant: Food Lion and Nationwide Money Services Court: Albemarle County Circuit What’s at issue: Whether a Food Lion in Roanoke and the ATM company are responsible for […]
According to a 2005 study, female students at UVA experienced “high rates” of sexual violence. Sociology researchers Jacqueline Chevalier and Christopher Einolf found that among a sample of 750 senior women, 17.6 percent were victims of rape, 10.8 percent were victims of attempted rape and 34.3 percent were victims of unwilling sexual contact. But if […]
For many UVA students, spring break is typically a time to party like it’s Apocalypse Eve. But for those rare students not in search of a bacchanal, the week-long term is a chance to volunteer.
Sean Singletary has scored 2,002 career points, made 550 free throws, dished out 556 assists and nabbed 192 steals. But the number he cares most about, wins, wasn’t as high as he’d have liked this year. The regular season is over. With the UVA women preparing for a probable NCAA tournament bid and the men’s […]
Zach Barrett Year: Senior Age: 22 Hometown: Lynchburg, VirginiaMajor: Sociology What’s in your backpack: No Country for Old Men, Intro to the New Testament, three notebooks, checkbook, five pens.
That’s not a strip mine on the city’s horizon. Martha Jefferson Hospital is grading land and doing site prep work for the construction of an extension of Peter Jefferson Parkway. A quick note to State Farm employees and other Pantops office workers: If you hear any explosions, it is probably not the inaugural terrorist assault […]