Reporting from this previous report by Courteney Stuart contributed to the following story. The search for missing UVA student Hannah Graham is now almost four weeks old, and while the number of TV cameras in Charlottesville and the size of search parties combing the surrounding counties for the 18-year-old second-year begins to shrink, police won’t clarify whether […]
Reporting from this previous report by Courteney Stuart contributed to the following story. The search for missing UVA student Hannah Graham is now almost four weeks old, and while the number of TV cameras in Charlottesville and the size of search parties combing the surrounding counties for the 18-year-old second-year begins to shrink, police won’t clarify whether […]
Speaking to a small throng of about half a dozen reporters—one-tenth the number present at last week’s press events for missing UVA student Hannah Graham—Albemarle County Police Chief Steve Sellers said the search for Graham will continue at least through the end of this week in targeted areas and with smaller numbers of volunteers. For […]
It’s official: Gay marriage is legal in Virginia. “How bizarre to wake up one morning and not know that you’re getting married,” said a beaming Catherine Gillespie moments after marrying her longtime partner, André Hakes, on the steps of the Charlottesville Circuit Courthouse. They had received their marriage license minutes before from Circuit Court Clerk […]
On Sunday, September 21, Dan and Gil Harrington stood quietly in the background at a press conference near Charlottesville Police Department headquarters, watching as another couple, John and Susan Graham, pleaded with the public to help them find their 18-year-old daughter Hannah, who disappeared from the Downtown Mall in the early morning hours of Saturday, […]
The Virginia State Police have confirmed that a forensic link ties Jesse “LJ” Matthew, arrested last week for abduction in the case of missing UVA student Hannah Graham, to the 2009 disappearance of Morgan Harrington, whose remains were found on an Albemarle County farm three months after she vanished after a concert in Charlottesville. “For […]
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. Albemarle County supervisors Brad Sheffield (Rio) and Ann Mallek (White Hall) will hold a […]
Although Jesse “L.J.” Matthew has been in police custody since his arrest on Wednesday on a beach in Galveston, Texas, he hasn’t given police any new information to help them locate the woman he’s accused of abducting, said Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo at an afternoon press conference on Thursday. “He invoked his right to […]
The former Venable Elementary School teacher who pleaded guilty earlier this year to a single count of online coercion and enticement of a minor and was sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison with no chance of parole was permitted to move home with his wife and two children after a judge agreed to […]
UPDATE, noon Thursday, September 25: An employee of the Galveston Sheriff’s Office confirmed this morning that Jesse Matthew was apprehended there after someone spotted him and called in a suspicious person report. Texas news website Click2Houston has reported that Matthew was camping on a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula when an observer reported him to authorities. A […]
Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta is back at work after her arrest last week on multiple felony charges related to misuse of public funds, and the majority of the electoral board that has the power to fire her say they want to see her keep her position—at least until after the November elections. Iachetta and local […]