4Better Or Worse
The week in review
Published on Oct 9th, 2012
1 comments Most damning testimony: The partner of Wanda Marie Turner, the woman charged with second-degree murder in the March 3 death of Robert "Eddie" Snead Jr., tells a judge at a preliminary hearing October...
The week in review
Published on Oct 2nd, 2012
1 comments Worst fire: Eleven-year-old boy Dustyn R. Fitzgerald dies in his second-floor bedroom in an 8am Sunday blaze September 30 in Dooms, according to a release. His parents and five-year-old brother...
The week in review
Published on Sep 25th, 2012
3 comments Closest call for the owner of a prominent downtown location: John Dewberry, who bought the Landmark Hotel shell at a bankruptcy auction in June, walks away from a plane that hydroplaned during...
The week in review
Published on Sep 18th, 2012
3 comments Latest BoV gaffe: UVA foregoes the chance to entice a $20-million donor with naming rights to build a new wing for the cramped University Art Museum when it accepts the art collection of former...
The week in review
Published on Sep 11th, 2012
5 comments Most perplexing City Council action: The city will hire four ambassadors for the Downtown Mall to somehow counteract the drunkenness, profanity, and aggressive panhandling perpetuated by some of...
The week in review
Published on Sep 4th, 2012
0 comments Most second-degree murder sentencings: Francis Panal Quiros, 40, gets 25 years August 28 for the brutal December slaying of Amy Holden, his brother's sister-in-law, in Shipman, according to the...
The week in review
Published on Aug 28th, 2012
2 comments Most like a snow day: A week after classes begin, Charlottesville schools lets students out at 12:30pm August 29 in advance of a Presidential visit by Barack Obama at the nTelos Pavilion. Albemarle...
The week in review
Published on Aug 21st, 2012
1 comments Loudest: Venable neighborhood residents outraged over decibel-searing parties go before City Council August 20 to clamor for the death penalty– or at least stiffer fines and jail time–...
The week in review
Published on Aug 14th, 2012
1 comments Most name calling: WINA's Rob Schilling comes under fire for calling 5th District Democratic candidate John Douglass, a retired brigadier general, a "chickenhawk," "dupe," and "crook" for not coming...
The week in review
Published on Aug 7th, 2012
1 comments Most questionable competency: Accused triple-murderer Rashad Riddick, 25, pummels his defense attorney, Joseph Flood, in the face at a mental competency hearing August 1 in Madison, the Culpeper Star...
The week in review
Published on Jul 25th, 2012
4 comments Most number of bummed people: Those who had scored tickets to see Michelle Obama July 20 in Main Street Arena. Understandably, she canceled after the horrific mass shooting at the Dark Knight Rises...
The week in review
Published on Jul 17th, 2012
2 comments Most likely to please UVA Rector Helen Dragas: The university enters an agreement to provide four classes online at no cost through a partnership with Coursera. A dearth of online classes was one of...
The week in review
Published on Jul 10th, 2012
3 comments Biggest discovery: UVA scientists are part of a Large Hadron Collider team in Europe that finds what may be the Higgs boson– a.k.a. the "God particle"– believed to give mass to every...
The week in review
Published on Jul 3rd, 2012
1 comments Oddest appointment: After engineering the biggest debacle in UVA history with the bungled, possibly illegal ouster of UVA President Teresa Sullivan, Rector Helen Dragas is reappointed to the Board of...
The week in review
Published on Jun 26th, 2012
1 comments Least surprising firing: Daniel Harmon-Wright, the Culpeper police officer who has been charged with murder in the shooting of unarmed Patricia Cook, 54, in a church parking lot, is dismissed June 19...
The week in review
Published on Jun 19th, 2012
0 comments Least surprising win: Former senator and governor George Allen gets the Republican nomination in a June 8 primary and will challenge former governor Tim Kaine for Allen's old Senate seat. Latest on...
The week in review
Published on Jun 13th, 2012
0 comments Most bizarre disappearance (besides Teresa Sullivan's): Four Afghan women who were participating in a program at UVA's Center for Politics are being sought by the State Department and the FBI after...
The week in review
Published on Jun 5th, 2012
0 comments Biggest bummer for Meadowcreek Parkway opponents: U.S. Western District Judge Norman Moon tosses a lawsuit from the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park that claims the Federal Highway Administration...
The week in review
Published on May 29th, 2012
0 comments Worst Memorial Day crash: An eastbound 2003 BMW on I-64 on Afton Mountain hits the guardrail on the right around 5:30pm May 28, veers back across the eastbound lanes, hits an embankment, becomes...
The week in review
Published on May 22nd, 2012
0 comments Best sign Virginia isn't for all lovers: The House of Delegates, led by Bob Marshall, torpedoes the nomination of Richmond prosecutor Tracy Thorne-Begland to General District Court judge because he's...
The week in review
Published on May 16th, 2012
3 comments Harshest budget cutting: The Fluvanna Board of Supervisors slashes all funding to JAUNT, Jefferson Area Board for Aging, and Offender Aid and Restoration in a last-minute deal that made the county's...
The week in review
Published on May 8th, 2012
3 comments Biggest chain reaction: Some local purveyors at the City Market are upset that Great Harvest Baking Company, a franchise, is allowed a highly coveted space, contending the popular farmers market is...
The week in review
Published on May 2nd, 2012
0 comments Latest former Albemarle police officer/reserve deputy to be charged with unsavory acts against a family member: Charles Farrell Long Jr., 47, who also is a former fourth-grade teacher in...
The week in review
Published on Apr 25th, 2012
0 comments Worst way to get out of going to court: The Louisa Sheriff's Office is looking for 38-year-old Danielle Messineo, whom they say has made bomb threats on days she was scheduled to appear in court in...
The week in review
Published on Apr 18th, 2012
0 comments Most protests: Dozens object to UVA's use of cats to practice infant intubation at an April 12 demonstration in front of the Rotunda that includes former mayor Dave Norris, the Progress reports. And...
The week in review
Published on Apr 11th, 2012
12 comments Most red flags: The region has its third-in-a-row official Red Flag Warning day April 10 because of high winds and low humidity throughout most of the state. The Virginia Department of Forestry...
The week in review
Published on Apr 3rd, 2012
0 comments Most powdery substances: The day before white and red powdery substances are found in the mailbox of the Sylvan Learning Center on Greenbrier Place to bring out hazmat units again, a bag of white...
The week in review
Published on Mar 28th, 2012
0 comments Hardest-fought terrain: The East side of McIntire Park. With a pedestrian bridge and the Meadowcreek Parkway bringing change, the golf-only terrain could be carved to include a botanical garden,...
The week in review
Published on Mar 21st, 2012
0 comments Biggest ouster: The Fluvanna Board of Supervisors fires five department heads March 14 following wage increases that were made without the board's knowledge. Canned are planning director/interim...
The week in review
Published on Mar 13th, 2012
0 comments Biggest backlash: Culpeper Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Close abruptly resigns March 12 after a federal judge reverses a capital murder conviction against Michael Wayne Hash, citing extreme police...