Happy Juneteenth!
Don’t know what the hell Juneteenth is? Now you do.
Chickens expected at next week’s Assembly session
While most people interviewed today by the Washington Post’s Tim Craig about next week’s special Assembly session to solve Virginia’s out-of-control transportation problem predict there will be a whole lotta nothing go on, at least one lobbyist is trying to find the upside.
No indictments in Dawson shooting
The investigation into a March 28 officer-related shooting, which is connected to the shootings on I-64, has been concluded, Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney Denise Lunsford announced today, and no charges will be filed.
Local African Americans have triple infant mortality rate
A not-at-all-cheerful report from the Charlottesville/ Albemarle Health Department shows that local African-American babies are much more likely than white babies to die before they reach the age of one. Black children in the Charlottesville area have three to five times the infant mortality rate of whites, says the new research.
UVA study: Humans skeezed out by snakes
Yes, it’s true: People are scared of snakes. This from two researchers in the UVA psychology department, Vanessa LoBue and Judy S. DeLoache, whose study gets some exposure in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. The pair asked 120 young kids and their parents to look at photos of snakes and flowers and measured their reaction times in picking out a threat (one snake photo among eight flowers) and a non-threat (one flower photo among eight snakes).
Assault on vehicles on West Main Street leads to two felonies against three teens
According to a resident of W. Main Street, he was awakened Tuesday morning around 3 or 4 am by a police officer knocking on his door who then told him that his car was lit on fire.
Special effects creator Stan Winston dead at 62
We are sad to announce the death of UVA grad Stan Winston, a renowned makeup, creature- and visual-effects wizard whose work on Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park earned him four Academy Awards. He died at the age of 62 from multiple myeloma.
Felons for Obama
According to a state delegate, young Republicans don’t end up as felons. (They have to become congressmen, lobbyists and aides to the Vice President first.)
News Quiz vis-a-vis a broken heart
You people are goddamn killing me. For months, when this News Quiz was buried on the front page, hundreds of folks responded. But now that it’s here on The Spiral…nothing.
Grisham to WaPo: “We’re Hillary people.”
Warner says “Thanks, but no thanks” to VP spot. Grisham declines to back Obama.