The Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved new rules guiding the conduct of taxi drivers and other contractors, including rules that limit terminal access.

The desert highway is still dark, and the wind is still cool in their hair.
In other words, the Eagles have still got it.

The Thomas Jefferson EMS Council recently honored several individuals and agencies for their contributions to Emergency Medical Services.

Wednesday, the third Monday of the week!

For 20 years, Earl “Picky” Shifflett never gave up hope that police would arrest someone in the execution-style killing of his brother.

Samuel Amos III sat safe in the living room of his family’s Louisa County farmhouse a mere month after standing in a turret on a gun truck with three machine guns and an assault rifle, protecting convoys on the mean streets near Baghdad.

Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport board members this morning will consider new rules guiding the conduct of taxi drivers and other contractors, including limitations on terminal access.

Critics of Charlottesville and Albemarle County’s long-term water supply plan have laid out specific proposals they believe will get the community more bang for its buck — both in terms of its pocketbook and the environment.

The Albemarle County Police Department issued 142 tickets to 126 drivers during a six-hour crackdown on speeding Monday.

Charlottesville resident Timothy Hulbert travels about 4 miles to his workplace in the city. Hulbert is one of 11,230 people who both live and work in Charlottesville, according to data compiled by his group, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Virginia residents will have an opportunity in September to comment on a proposed Dominion Virginia Power facility in Buckingham County.

Raining Tuesday commute

Charlottesville is demolishing Smith Pool to make way for a new, $9.8 million aquatics and fitness center that will provide greater amenities for the community and enable the city to eventually shutter Crow Pool.

Charlottesville police are searching for a man who robbed a woman at gunpoint around 3 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Prospect Avenue.

A plan to remove a section of the concrete canopy of the Barracks Road Shopping Center has been put on hold after merchants and customers criticized the move.

Three of the five members of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority had to recuse themselves Monday from voting on part of its $22.1 million budget because of conflicts of interest.

Volunteer firefighters in Crozet who rescued a 12-year-old dog that had been trapped in a muddy pipe for more than three days will receive an award from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents’ water and sewer bills would go up to fix aging infrastructure and pay for the area’s long-term water plan under rates the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority set Monday.

The “war of statistics” over the community’s 50-year water supply that has raged for months on Internet forums, in newspaper articles and at community meetings moved to a new battlefield Monday night: City Hall.

A plan to replace a section of the concrete canopy of the Barracks Road Shopping Center has been put on hold after merchants and customers criticized the move.

Charlottesville police are searching for a man who robbed a woman at gun-point around 3 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Prospect Avenue.

Volunteer firefighters in Crozet who rescued a 12-year-old dog that had been trapped in a muddy pipe for more than three days will receive an award from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Virginia Tech officials say the school has received deposits from 5,601 freshmen for fall 2008, up from 5,215 deposits received last year.

Monday morning and it’s tight around Tommy’s Joint

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia is offering local senior citizens an array of more than 50 classes for the fall semester.

On average, the jail houses about 540 inmates a day. The number is high enough to have officials worried about how long it will take before the jail will need another expansion, an option that Superintendent Col. Ronald Matthews said is “the most expensive and the most unpopular solution.”

“Speed, alcohol and no seatbelts,” Sgt. David Cooper of the Virginia State Police said. “You put those three factors together? Not good at all.”

“In today’s multi-purpose, decentralized university, it’s easy to lose sight of Jefferson’s ideals or to see them as dated or dead,” former Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings III delivered the commencement address. “Jefferson’s ideals still have plenty of life left in them.”

Five men died early Sunday when their rental car crashed into a Fluvanna County creek.

The University of Virginia awarded about 6,000 degrees on Sunday, May 18, 2008 during the 179th commencement.  A light rain didn’t stop raucous celebrations among the graduates and their families, who filled the Lawn with cheers and emotion.