One year after Albemarle delegate Rob Bell’s anti-bullying legislation came through, the numbers show the anti-bully bill has flexed little muscle in local schools. A statewide Crime and Violence Report for Virginia schools shows no reported incidents of bullying for Albemarle in 2005, and Charlottesville saw only 18 incidents last year. Still, school administrators say […]
One year after Albemarle delegate Rob Bell’s anti-bullying legislation came through, the numbers show the anti-bully bill has flexed little muscle in local schools. A statewide Crime and Violence Report for Virginia schools shows no reported incidents of bullying for Albemarle in 2005, and Charlottesville saw only 18 incidents last year. Still, school administrators say […]
Y’all, it has been a long summer. Thankfully, our national TiVo nightmare is finally over. It’s fall, and the new TV season is here. And quite a season it is. Sure, you’ve got the typical stuff: a couple of new reality shows (listen up, networks: we said more cowbell, not more Cowell), even more lawyer and police procedurals, and a handful of dried-up movie stars desperate for a steady paycheck.
Dear Toby: Cut-throat competition, aggressive audience recruitment, and leg-breaking requests: Yes, it seems that local theater is quite the perilous industry. But blatant show-stealing?
As a citizen of Virginia for 27 years, a union member, a single mom and a staunch Democrat, I feel compelled to write concerning George Felix Allen’s latest faux pas
I was driving through the countryside yesterday and I noticed three cute little deer in the road. I was appalled, however, to see that they were not crossing at a designated deer crossing area.
The facts of the long, sad story remain largely unchanged. In 1982, Rebecca Lynn Williams, then 19, was raped, stabbed 38 times and left to die on the doorstep of her apartment in Culpeper while her two children were in another room. Earl Washington, Jr., a farm worker with an I.Q. under 70, was convicted in the rape and capital murder. Washington served 17 years in prisonânine and a half of those on death rowâbefore DNA evidence cleared him in 2000, prompting reforms to Virginia’s notorious 21-day rule.
A grand jury will decide this month whether to maintain a second-degree murder charge for Jermaine Leon Thurston, 22, who fatally shot 21-year-old Lamont Antonio Reaves in June. If the charges hold, Thurston could serve up to 40 years.
Nineteen-year-old Marcel McArthur Turner of Riverside Avenue in Charlottesville turned himself in to police on Monday, August 21, after shooting and wounding another Charlottesville man. Turner shot the victim, Earl Dudley, who was riding in a car near the intersection of Carlton and Nassau streets in the Belmont neighborhood.
Following the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review’s June approval of “Waterhouse”-he nine-story tower to be built between Water and South streetsâCharlottesville Tomorrow Executive Director Brian Wheeler wrote a letter to try to persuade Mayor David Brown to preserve two adjoining Water Street parking lots. One is the current location of the City Market.