Incumbent Mark Warner has claimed victory in a Virginia U.S. Senate race some say is still too close to call. His opponent, Republican Ed Gillespie, held the lead during much of the night’s tallying, but late-posted vote totals in Fairfax County and elsewhere helped Warner close the gap and pull ahead by a very slim margin. Late last […]
Incumbent Mark Warner has claimed victory in a Virginia U.S. Senate race some say is still too close to call. His opponent, Republican Ed Gillespie, held the lead during much of the night’s tallying, but late-posted vote totals in Fairfax County and elsewhere helped Warner close the gap and pull ahead by a very slim margin. Late last […]
Each week, the news team takes a look at upcoming meetings and events in Charlottesville and Albemarle we think you should know about. Consider it a look into our datebook, and be sure to share newsworthy happenings in the comments section. The Charlottesville City Council meets from 7-1opm Monday, November 3 in Council chambers at […]
There was a lot of excitement in the Rio Road offices of Tucker Griffin Barnes on Monday, October 6. One of the firm’s partners, André Hakes, rushed out of the office at the news that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied the appeals of parties looking to uphold gay marriage bans in Virginia and elsewhere. […]
A grand jury has indicted two Charlottesville residents in connection with a May shooting on Hardy Drive that killed Oscar Nathaniel “Nat” Brown. The indictments charge Avery Fernando Gray Jr., 39, with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in a felony, malicious shooting, and possessing a firearm as a violent felon. Also charged is Brittany […]
On Friday, October 17, family members of several missing young women in Central Virginia marked the fifth anniversary of Morgan Harrington’s disappearance with a prayer that UVA student Hannah Graham would be found and that her parents, John and Sue Graham, would find some comfort in knowing what happened to their daughter after she vanished […]
Virginia State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead after a traffic stop on I-64 in Augusta County Thursday, October 16. At 7:30pm, a trooper stopped a Ford Windstar minivan that was traveling east on the interstate near the 89 mile marker, police said in a press release. While the trooper was obtaining […]
Odd Dominion is an unabashedly liberal, bi-monthly op-ed column covering Virginia politics. If we here at the Odd Dominion could wave a magic wand and implement a single federal law, it would be this: All current non-statewide voting districts in Virginia are hereby dissolved, and all future districts, on both the state and national level, […]
Just two weeks before a diagnosis of Ebola in U.S. hit the news, local doctors were quietly testing a patient for the deadly virus at UVA’s infectious disease clinic. The test results were negative, but that doesn’t mean the threat of Ebola is something they’re taking lightly. In light of the recent epidemic of the […]
I agreed to be a phone-in guest on a national television show last night to discuss developments in the Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington investigations. Within seconds of going live, I was thrust into what I can only describe as an orgiastic frenzy of misinformation that I was unable to dispute successfully on air, and […]
Reporting from this previous article contributed to the following story. Charlottesville Circuit Court Clerk Llezelle Dugger is used to hectic mornings, but this Monday delivered something out of the ordinary. Dozens of cheering locals toting flowers, rainbow flags, and, in a few cases, birth certificates descended on her office around noon, ready to be part of history in […]