A smashing success
Dear Ace: I’ve often driven by the sign for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Ruckersville, but I’ve never been in the facility. Can the average Joe take a tour? I’d love to see some car crashes!âTess Dumet
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A smashing success
What's the deal with the Insurance Institute in Ruckersville?
Dear Ace: I’ve often driven by the sign for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Ruckersville, but I’ve never been in the facility. Can the average Joe take a tour? I’d love to see some car crashes!âTess Dumet
Cop’s family appeals in Earl Washington suit
The family of Curtis Reese Wilmore, a deceased Virginia state police officer who allegedly elicited a bogus confession from exonerated death row inmate Earl Washington, says Wilmore is not responsible for Washington’s wrongful imprisonment. They’re appealing a U.S. District Court decision that ruled Wilmore’s estate must pay Washington $2.25 million in damages.
Last writes
The last time C-VILLE sat down with John Grisham, one year ago, he was on the cusp of starting a new book. After penning 18 novels (basically cornering the market on legal thrillers over the last decade), Grisham was tackling a nonfiction project. At that time, he expressed some concern over the matters of accuracy and detail that such a book demands.
Reward offered for shooters in Wertland incident
Crimestoppers is offering an $8,500 reward for information about those who shot a UVA student in this neighborhood near the Corner. The Jefferson Area Crimestoppers are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest in a robbery and shooting that occurred on the 1000 block of Wertland Street on September 10. Police currently have […]
Just the facts
The subtitle for John Grisham’s new book, The Innocent Man, could easily describe one of his trademark legal thrillers. Indeed, Murder and Injustice in a Small Town has been the theme that keeps on giving for the Albemarle County novelist, one of the planet’s most successful living writers. But this 360-page work of nonfiction (Grisham’s […]
Wild ride on 29 ends in abduction, Drug charges
The shenanigans of knuckleheads Michael A. James, Lamont B. Minor and Andre Grochowski make them a rare traffic stop for Albemarle County PD- they weren’t even speeding! Three men found fighting in a car parked on the side of Route 29 were arrested by Albemarle County Police officers on Sunday, September 24, according to an […]
Book ’em
A Time to Kill (1988)Grisham’s first—and perhaps most critically acclaimed—novel, A Time to Kill was inspired by a court case the then-lawyer observed in De Soto County, Mississippi, where he maintained a law practice and held a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives. He wrote the novel in his spare time between 1984 and […]
Statutes and Liberty
Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit organization based out of Orlando, Florida, but with offices in Lynchburg, has been proclaiming itself the religious right’s answer to the ACLU since 1989. Their recent intervention in the Albemarle School Board’s policies went no further than a letter insisting that two Hollymead Elementary students could indeed distribute flyers for their […]
UVA follows Harvard and Princeton in canning early admissions
Never one to be late to the party when Harvard and Princeton are involved, on September 25, UVA became the third school in the country and the nation’s only public school so far to abolish its early decision admissions program. After studying its early admissions program, the University concluded that it’s unfair to minority students […]
University fears mumps outbreak
Dr. James C. Turner, executive Director of student health, and the rest of his staff have been working hard the past week because of a potential mumps outbreak- but many students have yet to heed the warnings. Two recent mumps cases have sounded the medical alarms at UVA, and an additional Charlottesville-area resident has been […]