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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 2nd, 2006 0 comments
Latest Whisper Ridge woes: Police search the perennially plagued teen mental health facility February 23 in response to allegations of sexual assault. The Arlington Boulevard institution has faced...
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The week in review Published on Mar 2nd, 2006 0 comments
Latest Whisper Ridge woes: Police search the perennially plagued teen mental health facility February 23 in response to allegations of sexual assault. The Arlington Boulevard institution has...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 16th, 2006 0 comments
Latest Charlottesville school superintendent: Rosa Atkins, Caroline County's assistant superintendent, is named to the position vacated by Scottie Griffin in April 2005 and will earn $153,000 a year...
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The week in review Published on Feb 16th, 2006 0 comments
Latest Charlottesville school superintendent: Rosa Atkins, Caroline County's assistant superintendent, is named to the position vacated by Scottie Griffin in April 2005 and will earn $153,000 a year...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 9th, 2006 0 comments
Biggest oops: Charlottesville schools director of finance Edward Gillaspie discovers an extra $292K in the budget, thanks to federal funding. One day later, Gillaspie realizes the windfall was...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 2nd, 2006 0 comments
Most serious about peeping: Delegate Rob Bell sponsors his traditional Peeping Tom bill, and Police Chief Tim Longo shows up in Richmond January 23 to endorse the bill, which would change a third...
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The week in review Published on Feb 2nd, 2006 0 comments
Most serious about peeping: Delegate Rob Bell sponsors his traditional Peeping Tom bill, and Police Chief Tim Longo shows up in Richmond January 23 to endorse the bill, which would change a...
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The week in review Published on Jan 26th, 2006 0 comments
Worst raising Kaine: The Democrats decide to have Virginia's newbie Governor Tim Kaine rebut President Bush's State of the Union address January 31, and critic Ariana Huffington asks: "What the hell...
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The week in review Published on Jan 19th, 2006 0 comments
Most closely watched DNA testing: That ordered by Governor Mark Warner on Roger Keith Coleman, who went to the electric chair in 1992 for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law, Wanda McCoy...
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The week in review Published on Jan 12th, 2006 0 comments
Biggest surprise for a CHS parent: Deedee Gilmore discovers that wearing the name of their neighborhood– 900 South First Street– is forbidden at her son's school because administrators...
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The week in review Published on Jan 5th, 2006 0 comments
Most surprising finale to 24-year career: Dem Delegate Mitch Van Yahres faces a Republican-requested investigation into whether he violated a prohibition against raising money when the General...
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The week in review Published on Dec 22nd, 2005 0 comments
Biggest rape-case aftershock: Chris Matthew, who was accused of a September 3 rape and spent five days in jail before DNA test results cleared him, files an $850,000 defamation lawsuit against his...
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The week in review Published on Dec 15th, 2005 0 comments
Best reason for joy in Hooville: UVA gets its biggest donation ever– $45 million from the Ivy Foundation, a remnant of the W. Alton Jones Foundation– and Governor Mark Warner proposes a $...
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The week in review Published on Dec 8th, 2005 0 comments
First snow: The threat of precipitation closes local schools before the first snowflake hits the ground December 5, much to the delight of children and chagrin of their parents.
Biggest death watch:...
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The week in review Published on Dec 1st, 2005 0 comments
Best alternative to Monday Night Wrestling: The Charlottesville City Council public hearing on November 21 pits Rob "I care about African Americans" Schilling against Kendra "I am black" Hamilton in...
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The week in review Published on Nov 24th, 2005 0 comments
Most shocking death: UVA student Michelle E. Collier, 20, is found dead in her city apartment November 18. Authorities report no obvious sign of trauma, and a toxicology report will take five to six...
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The week in review Published on Nov 17th, 2005 0 comments
Biggest changing of the guard: Charlottesville voters overwhelming approve a referendum brought by lone City Council Republican Rob Schilling to elect school board members.
Newest supe: Dem David...
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The week in review Published on Nov 10th, 2005 0 comments
Worst nightmare for election officials: None of the voting machines at Walker Upper Elementary are working early November 8, preventing many would-be voters from casting their votes, WINA reports....
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The week in review Published on Nov 3rd, 2005 0 comments
Worst reminder a serial rapist is out there: A woman is attacked October 24 by a man waiting inside her Broad Avenue apartment. Neighbors intervene, and there's no announced DNA connection to the...
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The week in review Published on Oct 27th, 2005 0 comments
Most new Charlottesvillians: The city wins its challenge of the U.S. Census Bureau[base ']s claim that the city[base ']s population dropped by 3,494 from 2000 to 2004. The Census agrees to increase...
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The week in review Published on Oct 20th, 2005 0 comments
Best break for alleged wife-killer Anthony Dale Crawford: City prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against the man charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, and the abduction of Sarah...
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The week in review Published on Oct 13th, 2005 0 comments
Best news for defendants facing federal charges: The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, which includes Charlottesville, gets Larry Wayne Shelton as its first public defender....
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The week in review Published on Oct 6th, 2005 0 comments
Best Nobel connection: UVA research professor Barry J. Marshall is awarded the Nobel in physiology and medicine for discovering that most peptic and gastric cancers are caused by a common bacterium....
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The week in review Published on Sep 29th, 2005 0 comments
Best actress: Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave heads to the Virginia Film Festival next month for the U.S. premiere of The Fever, directed by her son.
Biggest hurricane: Rita slams into Texas and...
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The week in review Published on Sep 22nd, 2005 0 comments
Least neighborly: Crozet residents pack the September 14 meeting of the Albemarle Board of Supervisors to beseech the board to reject Old Trail Village, a mixed use development packed with 2,000...
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The week in review Published on Sep 15th, 2005 0 comments
Harshest critics of contemporary UVA architecture: UVA architecture profs, 26 of whom take out a full-page ad in the Cav Daily September 6 to ask, "Why has the university commissioned so much...
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The week in review Published on Sep 8th, 2005 0 comments
Worst U.S. natural disaster– ever: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, thousands are left homeless, seeking basics such as water and food. The nation's beloved New Orleans looks like a Third...
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The week in review Published on Sep 2nd, 2005 0 comments
Costliest hurricane– ever: Category 5 Katrina leaves a 500-mile swath of devastation in her wake across the Gulf Coast August 29. At press time, the death toll was rising, as were floodwaters...
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The week in review Published on Aug 25th, 2005 0 comments
Best news for North Grounds folk: Closed all summer, Massie Road reopens August 20, and the half-mile North Grounds Connector, which will join the U.S. 29/250 Bypass to Massie Road, is on schedule...
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The week in review Published on Aug 18th, 2005 0 comments
Biggest jump at the pump: Local gas prices spike an average of four cents overnight to $2.45 for a gallon of regular, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic August 16. A month ago Charlottesville averaged $2....
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