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UVA vigil for Yeardley Love
Published on May 6th, 2010
4 comments Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mourners packed UVA's McIntire Amphitheater the evening of May 5 to celebrate and remember the life of Yeardley Love, the 22-year-old lacrosse player killed in her...
UVA brass: Honchos defend school after lacrosse killing
Published on May 5th, 2010
190 comments President John Casteen, Allen Groves, Patricia Lampkin, and Craig Littlepage. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER UVA President John Casteen deflected blame from the university by suggesting that a Rockbridge...
Diet Coke 'angel': Yeardley Love made a big impression
Published on May 4th, 2010
39 comments Yeardley Love was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and the UVA women's lacrosse team. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR/INSET PHOTO UVA SPORTS On May 23, 22-year-old Yeardley Love should have had every...
Harrington & Yeardley: Connected by location, outrage
Published on May 4th, 2010
146 comments Harrington's t-shirt was found just three blocks from the site of Yeardley's death. GOOGLE MAP Just three weeks after the father of murder victim Morgan Harrington spoke publicly of the need for...
Huguely V: Suspect an anger-prone scion of prominent D.C. family
Published on May 4th, 2010
106 comments Number 11, Huguely played his last home game May 1. PHOTOS; UVA SPORTS, CPD In 1912, George W. Huguely Sr. co-founded the building supply company that built Washington, D.C.; and four generations...
Huguely admissions: 'Her head repeatedly hit the wall'
Published on May 4th, 2010
80 comments Huguely had only to travel next door to visit his former girlfriend, Yeardley Love, who lived in an annex behind this old house on 14th Street. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR "The door to Love's bedroom had...
Huguely lawyer: Yeardley Love's killing 'not intended'
Published on May 4th, 2010
111 comments Lawrence begins unveiling a "not intended" defense for his client, right inset. Such strategy helped Chambers, left inset, in 1986. PHOTO: LISA PROVENCE, REUTERS, CPD The attorney for George Wesley...
'Devastated': UVA rocked by lacrosse death, arrest
Published on May 3rd, 2010
179 comments Police have arrested fourth year UVA lacrosse player George Huguely in the death of fellow student and women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love. PHOTO BY BOB Police have arrested 22-year-old UVA men's...
COVER- Fishing pols: Shad Planking draws big names, bony food
Published on Apr 29th, 2010
0 comments A smoky, oak-stoked fire gives the shad at distinctive mahogany color. The 62nd annual Shad Planking was celebrated April 21 near Wakefield in southeastern Virginia. George Allen was there. So was I...
COVER- Dog, gone: How poison killed his pet
Published on Apr 22nd, 2010
49 comments   "She was the best dog I ever had," says Ande Schneider of Sierra, who died in March after ingesting rat poison. PHOTO COURTESY SCHNEIDER/KRETSINGER FAMILY First there was one mouse...
Behind the Local Music: 12 bands to watch in 2010
Published on Apr 15th, 2010
117 comments We all know the stories. The legendary Dave Matthews, a lowly Miller's bartender turned international star. A rough 'n' tumble UVA band named Sparky's Flaw attracted the attention of local music...
The Jeff: Reborn
Published on Apr 8th, 2010
7 comments   PHOTO BY TOM DALY I am a life-long Charlottesville resident, and while this town has nurtured my love of history, architecture, and entertainment, only one building merges my interest in all...
COVER- Toy story: How a high school superstar almost lost his future
Published on Apr 1st, 2010
42 comments "I tried to stay positive," says Justin Sexton, a Fluvanna County High School senior who was suspended for a year when school administrators searched his pick-up truck and discovered a friend's...
The Chang effect: Wooing palates, breaking hearts--- and why he left
Published on Mar 23rd, 2010
53 comments Peter Chang's food has created a frenzy among foodies. PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO Last fall, word that a famous Szechuan chef had quietly set up in Charlottesville had foodies salivating. There was a...
COVER- FICTION- Fresh-Faced Fiction: Contest winners bring raw talent to the table
Published on Mar 18th, 2010
1 comments Click here to read the winning story: Pockets Charlottesville has always boasted a healthy community of interested cultural connoisseurs and their events: the Virginia Festival of the Book, the...
COVER- Sweet 16: 16th Book Fest; 16 lit picks
Published on Mar 11th, 2010
1 comments Every time we turn around, someone else has a Kindle, and although they don't always know how to use it, the emergence of the e-reader— iPad, anyone?— continues to raise the question, is...
COVER- Pod in the quad: How Albemarle students became palm readers
Published on Mar 4th, 2010
5 comments   Luvelle Brown PHOTO BY SCOTT ELMQUIST To Albemarle Public Schools technology chief Luvelle Brown, the iPod Touchs he introduced in classrooms two years ago aren't just music players. They're...
60+ shots: Authorities duck as Colby Eppard's parents seek answers
Published on Feb 25th, 2010
113 comments   Tracy Foster knows there are people who believe Colby Eppard got what he deserved. Her response: "If it was their kid, how would they feel?"PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER These are the approximate...
COVER- Gone South (by Southwest)
Published on Feb 18th, 2010
0 comments "The film really started out as a story about me," says World Peace Game creator and teacher John Hunter. "But the more I watch it, the more I surreally seem to disappear. I make a...
Corks $ Curls: How did the death of a 119-year old UVA tradition go unnoticed?
Published on Feb 10th, 2010
12 comments How did Corks & Curls disappear without anyone noticing? COVER DESIGN BY ALLISON SUMMERS After a 119-year run, Corks & Curls, the student yearbook first published in 1888, disappeared without...
On the trail: Harrington's body creates new mysteries, angles
Published on Feb 1st, 2010
258 comments The new issue hits newsstands Wednesday afternoon. HOOK GRAPHIC "There may be something like horse hair on the body, which would mean that she got there by horseback," offered a private investigator...
Black ribbon: Harrington's parents express emotions
Published on Jan 27th, 2010
102 comments Dan, Gil, and Alex Harrington tie a black ribbon to Copeley Road Bridge a day after Morgan's body was found. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER “Our sorrow is etched in our faces; our pain has been carved in...
Search ends: As devastated parents grieve, hunt for killer intensifies
Published on Jan 26th, 2010
419 comments The missing Morgan poster and the main house at Anchorage Farm where a body was found. VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT HISTORIC RESOURCES; After all the rain and high winds in recent days, 68-year-old North...
Prime real estate: What will $10 million buy?
Published on Jan 21st, 2010
10 comments   The rich are different from you and me. So are their houses, and how their houses are bought and sold. Even in a stagnant real estate market where the most action is in the under-$300K range...
Waste Works lawsuit for dumb-dumbs: or a busy citizens guide to the local waste war
Published on Jan 13th, 2010
27 comments “In my opinion, there is compelling evidence to support a lawsuit against Mr. Van der Linde,” said City Councilor David Brown, who serves on the RSWA Board. FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER It appeared to...
COVER- Snowpocalypse: Storm of the new century and what went wrong
Published on Jan 7th, 2010
12 comments Jack Dougherty, left, and a friend watch a car negotiate an all-white curve on Ivy Depot Road on Sunday, December 27– more than a week after the snow stopped falling. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER If...
White Christmas storm: #1 for December; #4 overall
Published on Dec 23rd, 2009
17 comments Thomas Jefferson measured 36 inches of snow in 1772. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER It's official: The snowfall that began wreaking havoc on Charlottesville and Albemarle County December 18-19 measures 20.5...
City forgives: Charlottesville delays sidewalk enforcement
Published on Dec 22nd, 2009
71 comments Unwilling to battle the snow left unshoveled by artists, a pedestrian braves Market Street at 1:21pm Tuesday. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER "Wouldn't it be great," says pedestrian advocate Kevin Cox, "if...
COVER- Person of the Year: Joel Salatin's salad days
Published on Dec 17th, 2009
10 comments   Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 "The amount of licenses, paperwork, reporting, and warrantless inspections given to people who have...
COVER- Perriello's place: When free speech collides with private property
Published on Dec 10th, 2009
12 comments The November 10 protest that brought the Americans for Prosperity bus and a counter-protest by health reform supporters may have been the tipping point for Glass Building tenants.PHOTO BY LISA...