Tuesday, January 25 City death leads to murder charge Just after 7 o’clock this morning, Artis Wayne Keyton, Sr., 48, died from knife wounds suffered last night in a brawl on Avon Street. City police had taken Joshua Lee Zimmerman, 25, into custody after Monday’s episode. Today charges against him were amended to murder, the […]
Tuesday, January 18 Kilgore to step down One week after Democratic foe Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine got a $5 million valentine from the national party in his gubernatorial run, Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced today that he will leave his post at month’s end to campaign full-time for Richmond’s top job. Signaling the “aw, shucks” […]
Tuesday, January 11 DNC gives Kaine a $5M kiss National Democratic Party chair Terry McAuliffe today announced that the DNC would contribute an unprecedented $5 million to Lt. Governor Tim Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign. Calling Kaine “the future of this party,” McAuliffe said, “he’s a pro-business Democrat, a man of strong faith and values and is […]
Tuesday, January 4 CHO-DET route announced Flying to Motown will get easier for folks around here when Northwest Airlines begins twice-daily direct service to Detroit in April. The airline’s decision was announced at a news conference today at the airport. Northwest will be the fourth carrier to operate out of CHO, assuming that United and […]
Tuesday, December 28 Presumed romantic entanglement ends in death Schuyler resident Dwayne Scott Wyland was arrested in the early-morning hours in connection with the shooting death of Timothy Wayne Wilkerson, also of Schuyler, according to a report in The Daily Progress. Wyland, who is 40, is being held in the regional jail on two charges, […]
Special short-deadline holiday edition Tuesday, December 21 Street kid gets 28 years for non-fatal shooting Gamar Leander Turner, a black Charlottesville man whom his attorney described as a “product of the streets,” according to a report by James Fernald in The Daily Progress, was today sentenced on three charges related to a 2003 Fifeville shooting. […]
Tuesday, December 14 Bank move adjacent to Meadow Creek approved Charlottesville Planning Commissioners tonight approved a site plan submitted by Union Bank and Trust to relocate its Barracks Road-area branch to a site near Meadow Creek. According to a report by John Yellig in The Daily Progress, the bank, which earlier this year acquired Guaranty […]
Tuesday, December 7 Driver cited for hit-and-run Acting, they said, on a couple of Crimestoppers tips, Albemarle County Police today charged a Free Union man with felony hit-and-run. Nineteen-year-old Liza Jones was struck on Earlysville Road late on November 29 as she crawled from her wrecked car. She had been proceeding north on the winding […]
Tuesday, November 30 Guv urges fitness Mark Warner’s two-day Summit on Healthy Virginians wrapped up this afternoon with a visit from the trim guv himself. Addressing several hundred people, Warner reiterated the state’s dire obesity figures and identified a trio of target groups for improved health—State employees, school children and Medicaid recipients. Warner characterized the […]
Tuesday, November 23 Poetry site gets NEA nod Senator George Allen’s office announces today that Poetry Daily, a locally produced poetry website (www.poems.com), has been granted $7,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant marks the second dollop of NEA money this year for the site, a 7-year-old project of Don Selby and […]