4Better Or Worse
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 3rd, 2007 0 comments
Biggest loophole closure: Those who've been ordered to seek mental health treatment and declared dangers to themselves will no longer be able to purchase firearms in Virginia. Governor Tim Kaine...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 26th, 2007 0 comments
Worst timing: Reports of a gun-toting person lead police to crawl all over Wilsdorf Hall at UVA late April 23 before arresting Christopher A. Smith, 19, who was carrying a BB gun for a class...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 19th, 2007 0 comments
Worst mass shooting in American history: Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-hui goes on a killing spree April 16, laughing maniacally, according to one survivor on NPR, and takes 33 lives, including his...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 12th, 2007 0 comments
Biggest bust: Police arrest "the Ghost," William Frances Breckenridge, who slashed the throat of a UVA student in 1981, dodged a long prison sentence, and befuddled authorities in the 1980s by...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 5th, 2007 0 comments
Worst accidents: A four-year-old child is struck by a Chevy Blazer around 6pm April 2 on Dice Street and is in critical condition at UVA Medical Center at press time, just three days after an infant...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 22nd, 2007 0 comments
Least joy in Mudville: UVA falters in the second round of the NCAA, falling 77-74 to Tennessee March 18.
Least celebratory anniversary: The U.S. marks the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 15th, 2007 0 comments
Worst legal loophole: A 17-year-old gang member with an increasingly violent rap sheet is repeatedly released because he's deemed incompetent to stand trial, according to Charlottesville police...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 8th, 2007 0 comments
Latest contenders for the November elections: Scottsville businessman Denny King, who ran unsuccessfully for Albemarle School Board in 2003, announces his intent to elbow out two-term Supervisor...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 1st, 2007 0 comments
Least likely to seek re-election: One-term City Councilor Kendra Hamilton announces she won't run again and will instead focus on her writing career– she published a book of poetry in September...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 1st, 2007 0 comments
Most explosive situation: Two suspicious packages at Brownsville Elementary and Henley Middle School create havoc March 27.
Worst trend: A bomb threat evacuates Henley Middle School March 20...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 22nd, 2007 0 comments
Worst lost-teen story: Eric Gordon Murphy, 17, was last seen at 8am February 13 near his Lakeside Apartments home off Avon Street Extended. At press time, the Murray High student had not been found....
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 15th, 2007 6 comments
Grimmest vindication: Anthony Dale Crawford receives two life sentences February 9 for the murder, abduction, and rape of his wife, Sarah Crawford, whose nude body was found in a Charlottesville...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 8th, 2007 0 comments
Biggest trial: Acquitted wife rapist Dale Crawford goes on trial February 5 for the rape and murder of his second wife, Sarah Crawford, whose nude body was found in a Charlottesville hotel room...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 1st, 2007 1 comments
Saddest shooting debacle: Allen Cochran, 16, whose family says he struggled with mental illness, is shot and killed by Game Warden Robert O. Ham III in Greene County January 24 after police receive a...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 25th, 2007 0 comments
Most rapidly appreciating Albemarle real estate: White Hall, which shot up an average 16.72 percent in the past year, according to the latest county assessments, followed by the Town of Scottsville...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 18th, 2007 1 comments
Worst priestly misdeeds: The Reverend Rodney Lee Rodis, 50, is charged January 10 with embezzling more than $600,000 from his former Louisa parish, Rob Seal reports in the Daily Progress. Despite...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 11th, 2007 2 comments
Biggest spenders: Charlottesville and Albemarle, according to a Free Enterprise Forum and Decker Economics study. Between fiscal years 1990 and 2005, the city had the greatest increase in spending...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 4th, 2007 0 comments
Best look at the Freedom of Information Act: The Associated Press and Virginia newspapers survey local governments throughout the state for compliance with FOIA, and Charlottesville, Albemarle and...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 21st, 2006 0 comments
Latest disaster waiting in the wings: Local officials paint a dire picture of an upcoming flu pandemic at a December 12 press briefing, urging citizens to lay in two weeks' worth of water and extra...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 14th, 2006 0 comments
Biggest mystery: Virginia State Police conclude their investigation of the October 20 shooting of Elvis Shifflett by two Charlottesville cops– but authorities still won't say whether Shifflett...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 7th, 2006 0 comments
Worst high school sex scandal: Charlottesville High choir director Jonathan Spivey is indicted on seven felony charges December 1 for child sexual abuse, including three for verbal sexual...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 30th, 2006 0 comments
Best reason to take a deep breath: The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority will stop composting human waste at its Moores Creek facility February 1 after years of complaints about the stench from...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 23rd, 2006 0 comments
Biggest civil award against an Albemarle cop: A jury awards the family of Frederick Gray $4.5 million November 17, finding that Sergeant Amos Chiarappa was "grossly negligent" in the 1997 shooting of...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 16th, 2006 0 comments
Worst "thumpin": For the first time since 1994, America wakes up November 8 to the prospect of a Democratic-controlled Congress, and Representative Nancy Pelosi is set to become the first female...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 9th, 2006 0 comments
Better late than never: On the eve of the November 7 election, City Council unanimously passes a resolution opposing the marriage amendment and urging voters to just say no.
Worst programmer gaffe:...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 2nd, 2006 1 comments
Highest profile marriage amendment opponents: Governor Tim Kaine, first lady Anne Holton, former Governor Linwood Holton and NAACP chairman/UVA prof Julian Bond urge voters to just say no.
Best bump...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 26th, 2006 1 comments
Boldest defiance of the League of Women Voters: Senator George Allen refuses to pull footage from an October 9 League debate from an ad lambasting opponent Jim Webb. The League insists debate footage...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 19th, 2006 0 comments
Best news for minimum wagers: UVA raises its wage to $9.75 an hour in December, and Albemarle County plans to boot its pay from the current $8.84 for the 2007-2008 fiscal year, based on the same...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 12th, 2006 0 comments
Saddest Parkway news: Lizzy Hafter, a 22-year-old UVA grad student from Columbia, South Carolina, is murdered and her body found October 1 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. A man driving her car, William...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 12th, 2006 0 comments
Worst fallout from school terrorism: Culpeper closes all schools– both public and private– October 5 because of a bomb threat.
Worst copycatting: A 14-year-old Culpeper girl is arrested...
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