4Better Or Worse
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Aug 14th, 2008
0 comments Worst edu-cruise: Students Allison Routman, 21, and Mark Gruntz, 20, are expelled from UVA's Semester at Sea program for alleged plagiarism, kicked off the ship in Athens, and left to find their own...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jul 31st, 2008
0 comments Worst watershed: The Rivanna River's, according to nonprofit StreamWatch. A majority of streams in its watershed fail Department of Environmental Quality standards, and their quality has declined...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jul 24th, 2008
0 comments Most violent weekend: Six people are arrested in two shootings that may be gang related. Joshua Anthony "Spanky" Magruder, 19, is found dead around 3am July 19 in the 700 block of Sixth Street SE....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jul 17th, 2008
3 comments Lamest legislature: For the second year in a row– in a state with crumbling infrastructure and roads unfunded– Virginia's General Assembly fails to come up with a transportation plan. "I...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jul 10th, 2008
0 comments Speediest speed limit reduction: At a July 1 meeting of angry Forest Lakes residents who wanted something done at the U.S. 29/Ashwood Boulevard where 16-year-old Sydney Aichs was killed when a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jul 3rd, 2008
1 comments Biggest coup for Monticello: President George Bush decides to speak at the July 4 naturalization ceremony, bumping previously scheduled documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Biggest hassle for ...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jun 19th, 2008
0 comments Worst way to get a girlfriend: A 13-year-old girl disappears June 20 from the Downtown Mall, and police believe she's with Eleno M. Garcia, 29, a resident of the 600 block of Bolling Avenue, who is...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jun 19th, 2008
0 comments Worst way to get a girlfriend: A 13-year-old girl disappears June 20 from the Downtown Mall, and police believe she's with Eleno M. Garcia, 29, a resident of the 600 block of Bolling Avenue, who is...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jun 12th, 2008
0 comments Biggest sticker shock: Charlottesville sees its first $4 a gallon gas prices over the weekend. Stormiest: June 4 starts with thunder and lightning around 4:30am, and another tempest hits around 7:...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jun 5th, 2008
0 comments Most shocking shooting: Aziz Damar Booth, 11, is killed June 3 in a 6 1/2 Street residence. Most indictments: Albemarle's grand jury charges Waynesboro trucker Kenneth Barbour, 54, with involuntary...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on May 29th, 2008
0 comments Worst crash: The driver of a teal '93 Geo Metro, who was being pursued by a Louisa County deputy sheriff for reckless driving and having no tags, is killed when he crashes into a tree on Route 22 in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on May 22nd, 2008
0 comments Deadliest crash: Five family members die early May 18 on a Bremo Bluff Road in a car driven by Joseph Alfred Scruggs, 36, of Huntersville, North Carolina, according to Virginia State Police. Dead are...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on May 15th, 2008
0 comments Worst Friday morning: Sixteen-year-old Sydney Aichs is struck and fatally injured by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 29 north as she leaves her Forest Lakes South neighborhood May 9 to go to Albemarle High...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on May 8th, 2008
1 comments Worst domestic dispute: Madison residents Cynthia D. Nicholson and Manuel Paul Nicholson Jr. are found dead in their home May 2 in an apparent murder-suicide. Worst OD: Gordonsville mother of five-...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on May 1st, 2008
0 comments Stormiest weather: Three tornadoes cut a 25-mile path of destruction through southeast Virginia April 28, so far killing one and injuring more than 200. Governor Tim Kaine declares an emergency....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Apr 24th, 2008
0 comments Worst disappearance: Buford Middle School student Lorena Sanchez-Toledo, 12, at press time has been missing since April 15 and is believed to be with Jeremias Chagala-Mil, 31, and to be in danger....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Apr 17th, 2008
0 comments Biggest same-sex custody case: Two women joined in a 2000 civil union in Vermont– Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins– face off in the Virginia Supreme Court April 17 over custody of their five...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Apr 10th, 2008
0 comments Latest UVA football player arrest: J'Courtney Rydell Williams, 19, is charged with credit card theft and fraud April 1, the Progress reports. The arrest is tied to a March 10 wallet theft at the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Apr 3rd, 2008
0 comments Biggest story: Two teens shooting into occupied vehicles close I-64 March 27 and bring back memories of the 2002 attacks by DC snipers John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo.  Worst vehicle to use in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Mar 27th, 2008
0 comments Worst hike: University of Richmond law student Richard Slimak, 26, is killed when he falls off a cliff at Crabtree Falls March 22. Most careless guardian of our youth? First grader Caleb Kelly gets...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Mar 20th, 2008
0 comments Worst news for Albemarle property owners: The Board of Supervisors approves advertisement of a 3-cent bump in the current tax rate of 68 cents per $100 assessed value, the first step in raising the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Mar 13th, 2008
0 comments Largest gathering of the faithful: Close to 2,000 members of Interfaith Movement Promoting Actions by Congregations Together– IMPACT– rally at U-Hall March 10 to demand local elected city...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Mar 6th, 2008
3 comments Worst gunfight: Reports of shots fired in the 2200 block of Commonwealth Drive at 1pm February 26 lead to the arrest of Julian M. Pettiford, who is charged with three felony counts, including...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Feb 28th, 2008
0 comments Worst week for sexual assaults: A UVA student is attacked on Grady Avenue early February 21. Christopher Allen Noakes, 39, is chased and captured by police, and is held without bond. A couple of...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Feb 21st, 2008
0 comments Latest pedestrian casualties on Rio Road: Melissa A. Marsh, 36, and Robert N. Jones, 19, are seriously injured around 6:40pm February 14 near Berkmar Crossing.  Since June, at least four people...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Feb 14th, 2008
0 comments Biggest primary: For the first time in decades, Virginia becomes a player in national presidential politics when citizens go to the polls for the February 12 primary. Results aren't available at...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Feb 7th, 2008
0 comments First '08 City Council showdown: Mayor and affordable housing advocate Dave Norris finds his proposal to dedicate two cents of the property tax rate and 25 percent of the lodging tax derailed on...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jan 31st, 2008
0 comments Worst fire: Flames consume an apartment at 147 Woodlake Drive January 26, and when firefighters are finally able to enter the two-story residence, they find a body they believe is an unaccounted-for...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jan 24th, 2008
0 comments First snow: Area roads are paralyzed January 17 when the white stuff starts sticking around commute time, vehicles start sliding, and then both public school systems decide to evacuate. Most wrecks:...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Published on Jan 17th, 2008
0 comments Biggest revisionists: The General Assembly that passed the abusive driver fees last year now races to revoke it, with Governor Tim Kaine leading the charge. Most obvious bad ideas likely to be...