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The Washington Times reports that the Museum of the Confederacy may be looking to move from its Clay Street digs in Richmond– next to the Confederate White House, conveniently enough– and instead set up shop in the Lexington area– which is, also rather conveniently, the final res read full story

Need to sue someone for a personal injury? Well, you're in luck– yet another law firm has just opened up, and they focus on trial work– including "serious" personal injury litigation, medical malpractice, federal and state criminal cases, and divorce. It's Roanoke-based Lichtenstein Fishwick & Johnson PLC. No strangers to the area, two of the firm's five lawyers, John E. read full story

It looks like DMB may have developed a taste for hip-hop. After working with decidedly urban producer Mark Batson on the last album, Stand Up, Dave & Co. read full story

For nearly 40 years, the Kappa Sigma auditorium hosted community events, from Boy Scouts meetings to piano recitals. read full story

It appears the UVA Foundation got a deal on 407 Valley Road, another property scheduled for demolition to make way for the South Lawn project. read full story

While the snow and ice that arrived yesterday led to a number of accidents in the area, including this one on Rio Road, on Interstate 81 near Winchester the bad weather unfortunately claimed the lives of two local women, the Daily Progress reports. Thomasina Bryant, 36, of Charlottesville, was driving her Toyota SUV near Winchester yesterday when she lost control of the car, went across the median, and hit an oncoming car. read full story

Sunday's icy precip had barely begun to stick when down the Mall rumbled a big ole City Parks truck with an even bigger ole snowplow out in front, ready for action. Scrape, scrape... BOOM! Down went one of the four-light black "spider lights" in front of Bizou restaurant. What happened? City spokesperson Ric Barrick explains that a brake line malfunctioned on the truck, sending it into the pole. read full story

The farmer who lost his boars in a controversial government slaughter was convicted Friday of operating an illegal hunting enclosure, but the judge is considering a motion to quash the complaint. The September predawn raid of Danny and Cindi Henshaw's Gladstone hunting preserve and slaughter of at least 80 swine– including their two pet pigs read full story

Police and fire departments are warning people that, although the depth of today's snow is shallow, the roads remain remarkably– and dangerously– icy. Consider what happened in this 3:35pm photo on Rio Road. A maroon Toyota Camry was heading east into town, according to Albemarle police officer K. read full story

The Charlottesville area will get its first snowfall tomorrow morning, according to the Weather Underground, which is predicting one to three inches with a nearly 100 percent chance of snow. Already, city crews have mobilized, according to City spokesman Ric Barrick, who says the City has "one of the most state read full story

An American Idol finalist is coming back near his old stomping grounds, and the Daughtryphilic Daily Progress, which penned many loving stories last year, is the first read full story

A US Airways flight en route to Roanoke made an emergency landing yesterday at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, due to a fire in the cockpit. read full story

A Newport News delegate has introduced a bill that would add a cervical cancer vaccine tested at UVA to the battery of immunizations Virginia's schoolgirls receive. read full story

Jack Bauer might have been searching for nukes on last night's two-hour episode of 24 but some area viewers were going nuclear when the show cut off three-quarters of the way through part two of the series premiere, leaving nothing but static on their screens. "We were off for about half an hour," says Joe Dort, business manager for the Charlottesville Newsplex, parent company of three local stations includ read full story

Delegate Rob Bell has named his own citizen advisory committee to scrutinize the candidates for the soon-to-open 16th Judicial Circuit seat at a 7pm public meeting January 16 at Hollymead Elementary. Bell's fellow lawyers at the Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association read full story

One of Charlottesville's longest legal dramas got new life today when the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that an Albemarle Circuit Court judge erroneously dismissed Katharine Almy's lawsuit against mega-selling author John Grisham and Alan and Donna Swanson, allowing Almy to go back to court to sue for intentional inflictio read full story

In his latest web creation, blogger Waldo Jaquith has turned his attention on a place where the sun never–-okay, well, rarely shines–-the inner workings of the Virginia General Assembly. His new website, Richmond Sunlight, which debuted this week after five months (and after about 100 people tested it, says Jaquith) in the 28-year old website developer, and self-styled read full story

Just a few months after his last show at Starr Hill, madcap guitar whiz Tim Reynolds has announced that he will be swinging through town yet again this coming spring. Reynolds was a Monday night fixture at Miller's and served as Charlottesville's resident guitar hero through the early Dave Matthews Band era up until his move to New Mexico in 1997, where he has since spent his time making a read full story

Buying a Scratch Game lottery ticket isn't the only way for locals like Tiger Fuel Co. read full story