4Better Or Worse
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The week in review Published on Dec 9th, 2004 0 comments
Worst week for auto fatalities: Three young men– Joshua Eugene Bryant, 18, Chad Arron Durrer, 20, and Robert P. Bull, 18– die November 30 on the U.S. 250 Bypass near Locust Avenue when...
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The week in review Published on Dec 2nd, 2004 0 comments
Worst weekend for murder: Matt Nelepa, 20, is shot early November 20 at 7-1/2 Street near Cherry Avenue. The body of Sarah Louise Crawford, 33, is found around 1:30am November 22 in the Quality Inn...
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The week in review Published on Nov 25th, 2004 0 comments
Least understood UVA move: Attaining "charter" status, which would give the university more autonomy from the General Assembly. Faculty and staff are concerned about wages– which are not...
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The week in review Published on Nov 18th, 2004 0 comments
Biggest local murder trial: Former UVA student Andrew Alston is convicted of voluntary manslaughter November 9 in the stabbing death of 22-year-old Walker Sisk a year ago. Alston is sentenced to...
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The week in review Published on Nov 11th, 2004 0 comments
Closest election since 2000: George W. Bush is reelected president November 2, defeating Senator John Kerry.
Widest City tally: Charlottesville voters back Kerry with nearly 72 percent of the vote....
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The week in review Published on Nov 4th, 2004 0 comments
Most surprising National Book Award finalist: The 567-page report of the 9/11 Commission, for which Miller Center chief Philip Zelikow served as executive director and "surrogate author."...
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The week in review Published on Oct 28th, 2004 0 comments
Worst loss for Albemarle: Charlotte Humphris, who served on the Board of Supervisors from 1989 to 2001 and was its first female chair, dies October 24 at age 73.
Worst loss for Albemarle police:...
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The week in review Published on Oct 21st, 2004 0 comments
Worst week for Judge Paul Peatross: The state's judicial review committee unanimously recommends he be censured or removed from office, according to an October 18 filing with the state Supreme Court...
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The week in review Published on Oct 14th, 2004 0 comments
Biggest trial: Shawn Breeden and Michael Carpenter are found guilty in U.S District Court October 5 on charges relating to the murder of Kevin Lee Hester. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty....
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The week in review Published on Oct 7th, 2004 0 comments
Most trespassers: The UVA Foundation charges 23 UVA students and their grad student teacher with trespassing September 23 for taking a detective-fiction class field trip to the derelict Blue Ridge...
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The week in review Published on Sep 30th, 2004 0 comments
Worst hurricane: Jeanne really is the worst, at least as far as Florida, still recovering from Frances, and Haiti, with thousands of dead or missing, are concerned.
Biggest Cav Daily dustup:...
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The week in review Published on Sep 23rd, 2004 0 comments
Worst hurricane: In a season of deadly hurricanes, Ivan wreaks havoc on the Gulf Coast and racks up the highest U.S. death toll, currently at more than 45.
Worst local damage: Ivan-spawned tornadoes...
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The week in review Published on Sep 16th, 2004 0 comments
Most ambitious UVA plan: To become a chartered university and gain more autonomy from the Commonwealth of Virginia, which only provides about eight percent of UVA's budget. UVA prez John Casteen lays...
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The week in review Published on Sep 9th, 2004 0 comments
Worst aftermath of Tropical Storm Gaston: Richmond's Shockoe Bottom is still staggered by August 30 flooding from a foot of rain that caused an estimated $60 million in damage to 35 businesses, 25...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 2nd, 2004 0 comments
Worst flooding: Tropical Storm Gaston drops 10 inches of rain on Richmond August 30, wrecking Shockoe Bottom and leaving five dead in its wake. Governor Mark Warner declares a state of emergency in...
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The week in review Published on Aug 26th, 2004 0 comments
Least friendly incident at Friendship Court: Police shoot and critically wound Kerry Von Reese Cook August 21 while responding to a domestic complaint. At press time, Cook, who police say has...
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The week in review Published on Aug 19th, 2004 0 comments
Saddest find: The body of a homeless man, Eugene M. Tyndall Jr., 53, behind trash bins in the LexisNexis parking lot August 10.
Worst weather: Two storms– tropical storm Bonnie and Hurricane...
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The week in review Published on Aug 12th, 2004 0 comments
Biggest migration: Thirty-two students take advantage of the school choice option and leave Clark Elementary after the school fails to meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind act....
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The week in review Published on Jul 29th, 2004 0 comments
Amazing alloy: Local researchers say in an early July release that their new non-magnetic alloy– three times stronger than steel– could make taller buildings, broader bridges, and hardier...
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The week in review Published on Jul 22nd, 2004 0 comments
Most shocking: Legendary former basketball coach and athletic director Terry Holland calls it quits fundraising for the new basketball arena to pursue another opportunity in sports.
Least shocking (...
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The week in review Published on Jul 15th, 2004 0 comments
Worst day for CEOs: July 8. Enron's Kenneth "Kenny Boy" Lay takes a perp walk and is charged with selling his stock while urging investors and employees to buy more. Adelphia founder John "Personal...
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The week in review Published on Jul 8th, 2004 0 comments
Best balance for Yankee John Kerry's presidential ticket: He adds Southerner John Edwards to the VP slot July 6.
Best news for Guantanamo Bay prisoners: The U.S. Supreme Court rules the nearly 600...
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The week in review Published on Jul 1st, 2004 0 comments
Earliest transfer of power: The U.S. hands over authority to an interim Iraqi government June 28, two days before the expected June 30 transfer.
Biggest sex discrimination case: A class action...
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The week in review Published on Jun 24th, 2004 0 comments
Most shocking– shocking!– revelation from the 9/11 Commission: No evidence ties al-Qaida to Saddam Hussein in the September 11 attacks.
Most shocking other revelation: Although still a...
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The week in review Published on Jun 17th, 2004 0 comments
Biggest capital campaign: UVA announces plans to raise $3 billion by 2011.
Biggest donation to Monticello: $15 million from Robert and Clarice Smith to endow the Robert H. Smith International...
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The week in review Published on Jun 10th, 2004 0 comments
Highest-level loss: Fortieth President Ronald Reagan dies June 5 at age 93– 10 years after announcing he had Alzheimer's Disease.
Highest-level retirement: CIA Director George Tenet offers his...
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The week in review Published on Jun 3rd, 2004 0 comments
Best Memorial Day commemoration: The National World War II monument on the Mall in Washington is dedicated May 29.
Oddest political move: Former Governor Douglas Wilder plans to run for mayor in...
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The week in review Published on May 27th, 2004 0 comments
Best state economic news: After two years of a deficit, Virginia may end the fiscal year June 30 with a surplus.
Biggest no-brainer appointment: President Bush renominates Alan Greenspan, 78, to his...
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The week in review Published on May 20th, 2004 0 comments
Worst images, just when you thought they couldn't get any worse: A videotape showing the beheading of American Nick Berg in Iraq is released May 11.
Worst howdy to immigrants: Fifth District...
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 13th, 2004 0 comments
Hottest seat: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sits before the Senate Armed Services Committee May 7 to explain the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, amid an increased clamor for his resignation....
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