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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 streets—Charlottesville 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.

Of any area in Charlottesville, Pantops—with its many car dealerships and strip malls lining Route 250 East—would seem an unlikely candidate for the planning stage (at least, at this point). Yet, on Tuesday, August 23, the Albemarle County Planning Commission undertook the first of three work sessions to discuss the preliminary draft of the Pantops […]

The recent approval of the preliminary site plan for Albemarle Place leaves developers Landonomics eager to make themselves at home in Charlottesville. Roll out the welcome wagon, Charlottesville, it’s time to meet the new neighbors.    Senior Vice President Steve Lucas says that he hopes Albemarle Place will be a successful follower to the company’s first […]

Foundation has built 120 shelters for Katrina victims —with more on the wayEven before Hurricane Katrina made landfall last August, Pearlington, Mississippi, was a hurting town. Located 45 miles northeast of New Orleans, the value of the towns’ aging homes was well below the state average. Its elevation—8′ above sea level—guaranteed that a pounding 28′ […]