Students swap sex, disease
More UVA students are twisting their tongues around the unfamiliar names of antibiotics like ciprofloxacin and azithromycin these days than they did in years past, and it’s not because they’re going pre-med.
What’s in your backpack?
Sam ChernoffYear: FourthMajor: Economics and musicHometown: New York, NY What’s in your backpack? Books, highlighter, check book, Airborne medicine, map of Venice, beer coaster, stripper brochure, gym shorts, lap top.
City outsmarts scofflaws
Apparently word travels fastâat least among habitual parking violators, anyway. As of January 1, a loophole closed that previously allowed offenders of unpaid parking tickets to go unpunished, and while it’s a little too early see any concrete trends, City officials say for now
Local police to handle illegal immigrants?
State Attorney General Bob McDonnell (www.bobmcdonnell.com) is pushing a law enforcement measure that even some police officers oppose. On January 17, he asked Governor Tim Kaine to allow State Police […]
Hot cases 3.0
The offenders in these hot cases have more than a few things in common. The former Lutheran pastor and schoolteacher are both accused of liking kids…in that way. And two […]
When Trucks hit bridges
What is it about bridges lately that has people wanting so much to slam into them? That’s the question City and County officials may be pondering, with a seeming increase […]
Next stop: Capitol Hill
“We’re here to send a message: Stop the war. No more troops,” says Virginia Rovnyak, swaying at the front of the bus in which I’m riding. Forty-five heads nod in […]
Kids join pro-choice group in Richmond
On Thursday, January 26, Planned Parenthood supporters, numbering about 600, headed to Richmond for the annual Lobby Day activities. This year, the group included about 80 local high school students, who got the day off from school
Just give them a ride
Jennifer Behrens is a social worker with the Charlottesville Department of Social Services (www.charlottesville.org). One of her cases, an elementary-age boy who entered the foster system, needed a new place […]
Protecting the salt of the earth
Fresh out of college, newly wed Teresa Tapscott went looking for a job in 1979. She hasn’t had to look for one since. “Sometimes I compare it to being a […]