game Overlord cackles and crackles with the droll and dastardly spirit of Dungeon Keeper, Bullfrog’s late-’90s series of games that cast you as an evil force bent on building up an empire of minions to crush those goody-goody heroes once and for all. As Dick Cheney proves to us every single day, there’s nothing quite […]
game Overlord cackles and crackles with the droll and dastardly spirit of Dungeon Keeper, Bullfrog’s late-’90s series of games that cast you as an evil force bent on building up an empire of minions to crush those goody-goody heroes once and for all. As Dick Cheney proves to us every single day, there’s nothing quite […]
One early morning this spring, I walked through the door at Labor Ready, a day laborer employment service on W. Main Street, and took my place among the 30 or so people who had congregated at 5:30am looking for work.
If you’re poor or just want to help, there are a number of groups actively providing services that will help you or could use some assistance themselves. Most of them are desperate for volunteers and donations. In addition to the resources listed below, please see http://www.avenue.org/tjach for an extensive list of all those aiding the […]
Due to a reporting error in a July 3 Government News story, “The soil-slinging begins,” we incorrectly said that incumbent Soil and Water Conservation District directors in Fluvanna County are running uncontested. In fact, only Robert G. Parrish, who is not an incumbent, is running in Fluvanna.
Correction appended A local TV station recently did a story about gangs on the Downtown Mall, interviewing people on-camera to ask if they thought there was gang activity in the popular pedestrian corridor. An older woman said she didn’t think there was any gang activity. Behind her on a wall was a “tag” of three […]
Jane Andrews walks into the Albemarle Housing Improvement Programs’s (AHIP) conference room and sits down at an already-crowded table. She has good news.
Julian Elmo Bailey, 52, was arrested July 7 for the forcible rape of a 49-year-old woman around 10:30pm, in the area of Fifth Street SW. “The suspect and the victim in this case were acquaintances,” says Charlottesville Police Captain Bryan Bibb. “They knew each other and they had hung out together in the past.” This […]
The office of Charlottesville’s head prosecutor, Warner D. “Dave” Chapman, is tucked off a mundane hallway in City Hall, far removed from the bustle of lawyers, clerks, cops and cons a few blocks north in historic Court Square. Chapman, too, is usually removed from the pomp and politics of the local legal scene. While his […]
Residents in Nelson County seeking mental health care have a lot of obstacles to overcome. “In Nelson County, the mental health facility is located right next to the public health facility,
Dedicated UVA football fans experienced a moment of deja vu this January when they looked down the list of incoming recruits on national signing day and saw the name Ras-I Dowling. Dowling was also on the list in 2006, but he didn’t make the grade for UVA. So he opted to “prep,” spend a post-grad […]