Cover Stories
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COVER- First and long: As football kicks off, emotions run high at Virginia Tech Published on Sep 6th, 2007 2 comments
PHOTO BY TOM DALY
Normally, college students are not well acquainted with the hour of 7:30am. But this is not just any 7:30am. It's Saturday, September 1, the morning of the first Virginia Tech...
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COVER- Savage's beast: How 'The Corner' took a bite of local radio Published on Aug 23rd, 2007 44 comments
PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Although it launched less than a year ago and hired its DJs only 10 months ago, a new Charlottesville radio station has already become nothing short of an airwaves-eating...
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Arrested! A decade after first known attack, serial rape suspect in custody Published on Aug 16th, 2007 0 comments
His M.O. is terrifying: first he stalks his female victim, watching her coming and going, learning her habits. When he's ready, he slips inside her house and waits. And then a "blitz" attack–...
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COVER- An uncommon past time: The hardships of the simple life Published on Aug 9th, 2007 0 comments
Logan and Heather Ward were having a tough time brewing their coffee. Logan split firewood for the wood stove as Heather ground beans with a cast iron grinder. But after an hour or more of futile...
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COVER- ANNUAL MANUAL: Our Town- Community low-down Published on Aug 2nd, 2007 0 comments
CHARLOTTESVILLE
Size: 10.26 square miles
Population: 40,315
Change since 2000: -10.5 percent
Density: 3,929 people per square mile
ALBEMARLE COUNTY (about 3/4 the size of Rhode Island)
Size: 722.61...
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COVER- The people's park: Kings Dominion always takes you back Published on Jul 26th, 2007 0 comments
A familiar, childlike anticipation hits me when I glimpse the Kings Dominion sign perched high above I-95, beckoning cars to exit for small-town Doswell, 20 minutes north of Richmond.
I've been...
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COVER- Glenn Barker: Serial killer or convenient scapegoat? Published on Jul 19th, 2007 23 comments
Remembering Katie Worsky
In last week's cover story, we remembered Katie Worsky, a 12-year-old girl abducted from a sleep-over and presumed dead. The case rocked Charlottesville, and after a lengthy...
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COVER- Little girl lost: Remembering Katie Worsky after 25 years Published on Jul 12th, 2007 29 comments
Polly Klaas. Samantha Runnion. Jessica Lunsford. Their names and faces are familiar– exhaustive national news coverage of their abduction and death has burned them into the national...
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Jack & Anna: Remembering the czar of Charlottesville eccentrics Published on Jul 5th, 2007 0 comments
"I've been waiting since the day Jack Manahan died," began the letter published May 10, 1990 in the Charlottesville Observer, "to see either an article or a letter. Perhaps the New York Times had a...
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COVER- When giants roamed: Camp Wahoo put Hooville on the basketball map-- and it's back! Published on Jun 28th, 2007 0 comments
Fifty years ago, Gene Corrigan, then an assistant basketball coach at Washington and Lee University, decided he was too restless to take a three-month break.
"None of us had anything to do...
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COVER SHORT STORY- 20 Minutes' Clarity Published on Jun 21st, 2007 0 comments
This story took second place in the Hook's short story contest earlier this year, judged by John Grisham. "I laughed with the first sentence and almost cried with the last," said Grisham...
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COVER- SHORT STORY- The Potato Cannon War Published on Jun 21st, 2007 3 comments
This story took third place in the Hook's short story contest, judged by John Grisham. "I must confess," said Grisham of Walter's story, "I have actually fired a potato cannon. So I...
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COVER SIDEBAR- Pre-jail interview: 'hindsight is 20/20,' says Robinson Published on Jun 14th, 2007 2 comments
There's one party George Robinson will never forget: the one that sent him to jail for 27 months.
Nearly five years after Robinson and his now ex-wife, who has changed her name from Elisa Robinson...
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COVER- 27 months: Jailing the party parents makes international news Published on Jun 14th, 2007 0 comments
Paris Hilton's teary return to jail made the front page of the June 9 Washington Post. So did another case involving alcohol and jail, but this story is based in Charlottesville.
The tale of George...
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COVER-Justice for Justine: Investigation 'very active' in hit and run Published on Jun 7th, 2007 74 comments
In May, Justine Swartz Abshire's parents increased the award for information leading to an arrest in her death from $10,000 to $50,000.
From Charlottesville, the path to Barboursville is...
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COVER $50,000 for answers Published on Jun 7th, 2007 0 comments
In the wake of their daughter's November 3, 2006 death, Steve and Heidi Swartz offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people involved in a hit...
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COVER- I want to ride my bicycle Published on May 31st, 2007 0 comments
In the six minutes just before 9am, 40 cars whiz past the corner of Key West Drive and Stony Point Road, northeast of Pantops.
Thirty six of them are inhabited by one person: the driver.
UVA...
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COVER SIDEBAR- Majestic town: How Williamsburg leads on wheels Published on May 31st, 2007 0 comments
"If you build it, they do indeed come."
That's the lesson for all Virginia to learn from the Historic Triangle around Williamsburg.
Noted as a biking mecca by VDOT since 2002, Williamsburg boasts an...
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Murder in the Park: Rice release revives memories Published on May 24th, 2007 57 comments
Two-part series This story is the second of a two-part series that debuted last week with "Cold case?" a report on the 1996 murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds
The search had been on for...
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Cold Case? Alicia Showalter Reynolds & the fall and rise of Darrell Rice Published on May 17th, 2007 0 comments
Two-part series This week's story is mostly about the terrors on Route 29, a series of illicit pull-overs that culminated in the 1996 disappearance and murder of Alicia Showalter Reynolds. Next week...
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COVER- Picture this!: Festival of the photograph comes into focus Published on May 10th, 2007 2 comments
When the Hook last left photographer Michael "Nick" Nichols, in 2004, he was relaxing in a camp chair by the Moorman's River, discussing an elaborate book project documenting his trans-Africa trek...
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COVER The lyrical lens: Sally Mann's poetry in stillness Published on May 10th, 2007 0 comments
Sitting in a retro red vinyl chair at a 1950s' formica-topped table with Pellet, her rescued Jack Russell terrier, curled near her feet, Sally Mann recalls the first photograph she ever made. Using...
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COVER Photofilia fare Published on May 10th, 2007 0 comments
Highlights of what to look for at Look3
Exhibitions Everywhere: Beginning June 1, photography shows will be exposed all over town, but four must-sees are
William Albert Allard...
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COVER Hard looks: Eugene Richards' unflinching eye Published on May 10th, 2007 0 comments
A wild-eyed drug addict clinches a needle between the few teeth he has left. A naked mental patient crouches in his cell, lacing his fingers through its metal bars. An Iraq war veteran pitches...
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COVER- Horsing around: P. Buckley Moss and not-folk art Published on May 3rd, 2007 0 comments
Pat Moss comes to the door of the Barn– her house in Waynesboro– and wonders who the heck is standing on her doorstep. She's forgotten that she has an interview scheduled this morning,...
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COVER This American life: William Albert Allard's chromatic chronicles Published on May 3rd, 2007 2 comments
When William Albert "Bill" Allard accepted his first photographic assignment for National Geographic in 1963, he'd just graduated from the University of Minnesota. But he was already married with...
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COVER Literary tragedy: Writing profs read between the lines Published on Apr 26th, 2007 0 comments
On April 16 in Blacksburg, a 23-year-old student who wrote plays and poetry authored a tragedy that has left the world dumbstruck. In taking violent fantasy to reality in one fantastic leap,...
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COVER Too soon: Lawmakers pause on gun policy Published on Apr 26th, 2007 0 comments
The smoke had barely cleared from last week's horror at Virginia Tech before the specter of America's long-simmering gun-control debate rose again, with various blogs declaring the 2nd Amendment dead...
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COVER Killer instinct: What drives a shooting spree?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Published on Apr 26th, 2007 24 comments
Was he a paranoid schizophrenic? A psychopath? Did he have a brain tumor? What could have turned a college student into a killing machine? In the nearly two weeks since the horrible Monday morning...
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COVER Next for Norris: What happens to places where horrors happen? Published on Apr 26th, 2007 2 comments
On Monday, Virginia Tech officials announced that Norris Hall– site of 31 of the 33 deaths in the worst school shooting in American history– will never house another class. Still, the...
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