No last minute heroics this time

The glory of an ACC football title game and the possibility of a BCS bowl were within UVA’s grasp on Saturday as the Cavaliers battled Virginia Tech for the Commonwealth Cup. But the offense couldn’t score in the fourth quarter and Beamerball sealed the deal, the Hokies forcing two turnovers and blocking a punt in […]

Meeting on Wood property conflict free

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 […]

For sale

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 […]

Plenty of priors for murder suspect's father

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 […]

Wyatt cleared of jury tampering charges

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 […]