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4BETTER OR WORSE: The week in review Published on Oct 8th, 2009 1 comments Worst rash of child porn cases: Brittney M. Demmer, 28, is indicted on 10 counts of possession, including videos of prepubescent children, the Daily Progress reports. Dustin Jame Lapradd, 23, a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Oct 1st, 2009 0 comments Most horrific attack: A toddler is fatally mauled by her family's pit bull when she wanders out to where the dog is chained September 27 in eastern Orange County, according to NBC29. Biggest protest...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Sep 24th, 2009 0 comments Biggest court case: The Supreme Court of Virginia rules September 16 that the Charlottesville School Board can determine whether a registered sex offender can come on school property. The ruling...
4BETTER OR WORSE: The week in review Published on Sep 17th, 2009 2 comments Biggest book ban story: Bryan McKenzie's tale of the Virginia Department of Corrections shutting down the 20-year-old Books Behind Bars program run by Quest Bookshop's Kay Allison is picked up by the...
4BETTER OR WORSE: The week in review Published on Sep 10th, 2009 1 comments Worst test for a "no-kill" shelter: The SPCA is ordered to euthanize a gray fox allegedly terrorizing UVA September 2 so it can be tested for rabies. Worst blow to literacy: Virginia's Department of...
4BETTER OR WORSE: The week in review Published on Sep 3rd, 2009 0 comments Wildest fox: Two people are bitten August 26 in the Lambeth Field area of UVA, and police fear the creature could be rabid. Even odder fox behavior: It allegedly steals a sweater, according to...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 27th, 2009 0 comments Most/least historic preservation in Orange: More than 700 acres at Montpelier, home of fourth President and writer of the Constitution James Madison, are placed in a conservation easement August 24....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 20th, 2009 0 comments Best loosening of city purse strings: City Council okays $2.1 million from its economic development fund August 17 to jump start a road that even greenies love, Hillsdale Drive Extended, Rachana...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Aug 13th, 2009 7 comments Worst day for vehicles slamming into buildings: July 31, when a auto driver smashes into Millmont Grille, NBC29 reports, and a tractor trailer jettisons off I-81 and crashes into an empty dorm at...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 30th, 2009 0 comments Biggest arrest of a City Council candidate's spouse: The husband of candidate Kristen Szakos, Joe Szakos, head of the Virginia Organizing Project, is arrested for trespassing at Anthem health care in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 23rd, 2009 0 comments Most life sentences: Waverly "Eddie" Whitlock, who shot and killed 11-year-old Aziz Booth June 3, 2008, gets six life sentences plus 33 years July 17. Whitlock initially agreed to plead guilty if he...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 16th, 2009 0 comments Latest disappearance of a 40-something male: Lake Monticello man Stuart Mowbray Knapp, 42, hasn't been seen since he set off on his bike July 8. That follows the July 1 disappearance of Glenmore...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jul 9th, 2009 0 comments Most mysterious disappearance: Glenmore Country Club president Michael Comer, 45, has not been seen since July 1. His car, keys, and cellphone are found at his Wintergreen vacation home, and police...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 25th, 2009 0 comments Biggest crime spree: Greenbrier neighborhood reports three stolen cars and numerous car larcenies during the wee hours of June 21. Stolen are a red 2001 Toyota Tacoma pickup, license ADK-7935, a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 18th, 2009 1 comments Biggest shift in the local landscape: UVA President John Casteen announces he'll step down August 1, 2010, from the position he'll have held 20 years, one of the longest tenures at a top-rated...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 11th, 2009 0 comments Worst nightmare: A 14-year-old girl asleep in her bed around 4am June 7 is shot and wounded in her 700-block Prospect Avenue home. The teen is in stable condition, and no arrest of the shooter has...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 4th, 2009 0 comments Worst break for aging sewers: Charlottesville is unable to get a slice of the stimulus pie to pay for the $22.5 million needed to replace its deteriorating sewer lines, Rachana Dixit reports in the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 28th, 2009 0 comments Most remorseful: Alleged child-killer Waverly "Eddie" Whitlock agrees to plead guilty May 20 in the death of 11-year-old Aziz Damar Booth June 3 only if he receives the death penalty, Tasha Kates...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 21st, 2009 0 comments Worst fall: A 17-month-old toddler plunges out of a second-story window onto his head May 18 at Heathwood Townhouse Apartments on Michie Drive and suffers a skull fracture and bleeding from the brain...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 14th, 2009 0 comments Most heinous: Nelson County retired teacher's aide and grandmother Opal Page, 73, is brutally stabbed to death in her Afton home early May 6. Arrested and charged May 11 are Christopher Meeks, 18, of...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 7th, 2009 0 comments Biggest change to the Downtown Mall landscape: The massive rebricking that started in January is nearly complete, and the Second Street crossing reopens May 4. Most unusual: The project comes in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 23rd, 2009 0 comments Biggest dump: The state Department of Environmental Quality investigates an illegal, three-quarters-of-an-acre site with eight-foot-piles of refuse at 2859 Crown Orchard Road in Batesville. According...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 16th, 2009 0 comments Most notorious black widow: Authorities discover the body of Mary Chavers' husband, Clent Chavers, in the couple's Amelia backyard, where she admits she buried him 15 years ago, and since 1994,...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 9th, 2009 0 comments Biggest turnaround: The previously doomed wading pool at McIntire Park gets a reprieve from City Council April 6. Latest hit to UVA's endowment: The money pool loses nearly $100 million in February,...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 2nd, 2009 0 comments Biggest, loudest closing: The Downtown Mall crossings at 2nd and 4th streets shut down to traffic March 29 through April 30 for the mall rebricking. Biggest withdrawal: UVA law prof and former...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 26th, 2009 0 comments Biggest alleged meth lab: Reports of a strange smell lead police to the GrandMarc on 15th Street, where they recover chemicals that could be used to manufacture methamphetamine and evacuate the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 19th, 2009 1 comments Biggest 180: Albemarle's chairman of the Board of Supervisors, David Slutzky, who memorably compared last year's tax increase to the price of a pizza and beer once a month, says March 11 that he...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 12th, 2009 0 comments Latest sordid Staunton sex crime: Garage-owner Wayne Gill, 39, is arrested for child porn and prostitution March 6 after he pays a 17-year-old girl $300 for oral sex and then films her in the back...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 5th, 2009 0 comments Biggest snowfall: Four inches fall at McCormick Observatory March 2, according to the Daily Progress, the area's greatest snowfall of the season. Typically winter snowfalls for this area average...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 26th, 2009 0 comments Most tradition-bound: UVA students overwhelmingly reject a referendum to create a multiple-sanction honor system, the Cavalier Daily reports. Seventy percent of those voting choose to stick with the...

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