4Better Or Worse
The week in review
Published on Aug 11th, 2011
0 comments Worst slaying: Clark Elementary third-grade teacher Dawn Reddick is gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Newark July 29, shielding a seven-year-old boy she didn't know from flying bullets, the...
The week in review
Published on Jul 28th, 2011
0 comments Hottest: Temperatures reach 102 degrees July 22, so the city and county open cooling centers . Latest summertime juvenile rampage: A Charlottesville resident is bashed in the head with a garbage...
The week in review
Published on Jul 21st, 2011
0 comments Biggest meetings: An Albemarle Board of Supervisors hearing July 13 on the proposed Western 29 Bypass brings out the citizenry, with 108 signed up to speak. A Metropolitan Planning Organization...
The week in review
Published on Jul 14th, 2011
0 comments Longest arson sentence: The two teens who torched Ruckersville Baptist Church last summer are sentenced July 11. Sean Douglas Heiderscheidt, 19, will serve seven years, and Stephen Fox, 18, received...
The week in review
Published on Jul 7th, 2011
1 comments Worst spate of Southwood trailer park news: Two men are sentenced June 27 for distributing meth in the mobile community. Darlin Antonio Rodriguez-Recinos and Israel Espinoza-Chavez receive six and a...
The week in review
Published on Jun 30th, 2011
2 comments Best example of too little, too late: Five weeks after an unannounced, late-night June 8 vote that resurrects the controversial U.S. 29 Western Bypass, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors will hold a...
The week in review
Published on Jun 23rd, 2011
0 comments Latest in the Western 29 Bypass resurrection: City Council votes 4-0 June 20 to oppose the controversial roadway. After a more than 10-year hiatus, the bypass revived June 8 at the end of a late-...
The week in review
Published on Jun 16th, 2011
5 comments Longest mile: The Meadowcreek Parkway has obtained all its permits and VDOT is good to begin construction after City Council declines to block road building last week, according to Charlottesville...
The week in review
Published on Jun 8th, 2011
5 comments Greatest disparity in sentencing in Lousia: Remone J. Houchens robs, brutally beats and blinds an 87-year-old woman and is sentenced June 1 to 30 years. That same day, Canadian Alan Sauve, 48, is...
4BETTER or worse: The week in review
Published on Jun 2nd, 2011
0 comments Worst week for baby deaths: The family of year-old Camora Latay Wicks raises money May 30 to pay for a $4,000 funeral to bury the baby, whose cause of death is undisclosed. Ramon Turley, 18, is...
The week in review
Published on May 26th, 2011
0 comments Worst spate of females allegedly deliberately running down people: A Louisa teen is in custody after allegedly driving her car into a crowd outside a party just after midnight May 22. According to...
The week in review
Published on May 19th, 2011
0 comments Latest missing young woman: Katalina Mikitarian, 21, disappears from a bus headed to Charlottesville, and calls her mother a week later, but won't say where she is. Mikitarian is learning disabled...
The week in review
Published on May 12th, 2011
3 comments Most wanted: Taybronne A. White is arrested May 8 in connection with a triple homicide after the bodies of Lisa Hwang, 26, Brian Lee Daniels, 26, and Dustin Tyler Knighton, 25, were discovered...
The week in review
Published on May 5th, 2011
0 comments Deadliest month for tornadoes: Violent storms across Virginia April 27-28 leave four dead in Washington County in southwest Virginia, and one dead in Southside's Halifax County, the AP reports. Two...
The week in review
Published on Apr 28th, 2011
1 comments Fastest fall from hero to jail inmate: North Garden resident Chuck Worden, 44, who made headlines for his April 16 rescue of an nine-year-old boy from flooding waters in Waynesboro, is in jail,...
The week in review
Published on Apr 19th, 2011
1 comments Cruelest month: Storms April 16 knock down trees and power lines in Albemarle, cause two flooding deaths in Waynesboro, and a tornado cuts a four-mile swath through Stuarts Draft, while throughout...
The week in review
Published on Apr 14th, 2011
3 comments Worst commute: An overturned tractor-trailer on I-64 east of Charlottesville April 12 grinds the morning traffic to a standstill. Speediest way over Afton Mountain: A VDOT study proposes $51-million...
The week in review
Published on Apr 5th, 2011
3 comments Most alleged pervs: Five men are arrested for soliciting children for sex in a Louisa, Albemarle, and Charlottesville police sting, and four are charged with using a communications system to solicit...
The week in review
Published on Mar 31st, 2011
0 comments Saddest accident: UVA first-year Thomas W. Gilliam IV dies March 27 after a fall off the Physics Building roof. Worst anti-Semitism: Lawn resident Keenan Davis is the target of vandalism and theft...
The week in review
Published on Mar 24th, 2011
0 comments Latest in last spring's Blue Ridge Parkway shootings: Ralph Leon Jackson, 57, is expected to plead guilty March 23 in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg to fatally firing upon WNRN DJ Tim Davis, 27...
The week in review
Published on Mar 17th, 2011
2 comments Worst disaster: A 9.0 earthquake hits Japan March 11, killing thousands of people in a tsunami afterward, leaving thousands more homeless, millions more without power, and damaging nuclear reactors...
4better or worse: The week in review
Published on Mar 10th, 2011
0 comments Biggest sticker shock: Gas prices jump locally by 40 cents a gallon in the past month to an average of $3.41 at press time, according to AAA. Biggest local employer to cut jobs: Northrop Grumman...
The week in review
Published on Mar 3rd, 2011
0 comments Better state budget news: The General Assembly only runs one day over before both houses agree on a two-year $78 billion budget February 27, which increases spending for public education and health...
The week in review
Published on Feb 24th, 2011
0 comments Hottest story: High winds on February 19 fan flames throughout the state that threaten homes in Ivy and White Hall, and burn one down in Louisa.  Latest city councilor to not seek...
The week in review
Published on Feb 17th, 2011
0 comments Worst triple-slaying connection: The suspect in the murder of the Madison County family found dead over the weekend–- James Clark Jackson, 55, Karen Lee Jackson, 53, and Chante Latrice Davis,...
4Better or worse: The week in review
Published on Feb 10th, 2011
0 comments Worst first: Thirty-year-old David Lee Cowan is shot fatally February 3 on Run Street in Westhaven, Charlottesville's first homicide of the year.Latest reelection bid: Albemarle Commonwealth's...
4BETTER or worse: The week in review
Published on Feb 8th, 2011
0 comments Latest declines in property values: Albemarle County's reassessments mailed this week show an average 1.24 percent drop in home values, excluding new construction, compared to the previous year's 3....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jan 27th, 2011
0 comments Biggest development in the ongoing water war: City Council votes 3-2 January 19 in favor of a 30-foot dam at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, a vote that puts councilors David Brown, Satyendra Huja, and...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jan 20th, 2011
2 comments Worst trend of 2011: Area gas prices average $3.02 a gallon, up 32 cents from a year ago, according to AAA .  Worst car crash: A southbound car on U.S. 29 plunges into a gully January 14 near...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jan 13th, 2011
0 comments First photo-red numbers: Albemarle's newly installed cameras at the U.S. 29 and Rio Road intersection capture 998 violations when enforcement begins December 12 through January 7. Of those, 586...