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Good news for people who love bad news
Attacks on free speech continue on everything from global warming research to evil teddy bear movies
Like so many paths you don’t want to travel, the road to censorship is paved with good intentions. The desire to protect turns into an act of suppression.
Grand jury indicts White supremacist
An Earlysville man known as one of the neo-Nazi movement’s prominent leaders has been indicted for soliciting sex from a minor, in addition to several counts of child pornography and obstruction of justice. Federal prosecutors allege that Kevin Alfred Strom, 50, used the Internet to try to persuade a 10-year-old girl to engage in sexual […]
Teacher accused of child sex crimes
Neal Willetts, recent graduate of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and former social studies teacher at Western Albemarle High School, is facing federal charges of sexual enticement and exploitation of minors. Initial proceedings April 4 resulted in a ruling by Judge B. Waugh Crigler that Willetts, 26, should remain in custody until […]
SELC cleans up at the Supreme Court
Caleb Jaffe, staff attorney at the Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), planned to leave work early on Monday to prepare Seder, the traditional Jewish meal celebrating the start of Passover.
Mother charged in infant homicide
An employee at UVA’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) school on North Grounds has been charged with felony homicide and child neglect for leaving her infant son in the car for the work day. According to the Associated Press, Raelyn Alene Balfour, of Greene County, left her son, Bryce, locked in her vehicle where he died […]
Adventures in Safety
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors at a meeting April 4 approved an additional $113,000 for a sally port for loading and unloading prisoners at the county courthouse on East High Street, bringing its total budget to $463,000. The proposal was brought to the table by Sheriff Edgar S. Robb and Commonwealth’s attorney James L. […]
UVA student’s film wins Peabody Award
For a broadcast journalist, winning a Peabody Award is a crowning achievement. But for UVA junior Sahar Adish, it was just another day in the college grind. What did she do to celebrate when she heard the news
A good manager is hard to find
In his own words, George Sampson was “the kid in your high school that brought rock and roll to your dance.” Sampson also brought dancers, musicians and street performers to New York City’s Lincoln Center for three summers from 1983 to 1985, and, as part of UVA’s capital campaign during the ’90s, worked as a […]
Defending champs hit final stretch
The Cavalier men’s lacrosse team (10-1) began this season in the shadow of last year’s 17-0 record and NCAA championship. Head Coach Dom Starsia talks about this season’s early loss to Drexel, facing Duke, and why rising star Ben Rubeor is no poor man’s Matt Poskay. Here’s some of what he had to say. C-VILLE: […]
To Uganda, without moving an inch
Maybe it was the full moon; maybe it was spring fever. Whatever the reason, people started acting peculiar at UVA April 2, and they kept going throughout the week—kept going and going, actually—without ever really going anywhere. Building Tomorrow, a national nonprofit organization supporting education efforts in sub-Saharan Africa, sponsored an event called Bike to […]