Albemarle County Fire-Rescue and Domino’s Pizza are teaming up to make sure area residents have working smoke detectors.

An interfaith prayer service in conjunction with the National Day of Prayer for Mental Illness Awareness Recovery and Understand-ing will take place Tuesday in Charlottesville.

Virginia faces a $3 billion budget shortfall, has no fix for its transportation gridlock and is being run by an unabashed supporter of the Democratic presidential candidate in a state that has backed Republicans for president since 1964. But Virginians apparently aren’t holding any of it against Gov. Timothy M. Kaine. 

Two incumbents are vying for re-election Nov. 4 to the Gordonsville Town Council.

When Albemarle sheriff’s deputies serve an eviction notice, they take with them a letter with phone numbers of organizations that can help.

After more than a year-and-a-half, Martha Jefferson Hospital’s planned five-story, 452,109-square-foot new hospital is nearing its final approval.

The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors seemed little surprised on Saturday morning to hear that the university’s endowment is expecting limited returns on its investments over the coming year.

Preliminary cost estimates and the bleak prospect of increased transportation funding have tabled the Eastern Connector, leaving Charlottesville and Albemarle officials with even fewer options for getting the project under way.

Charlottesville has issued several traffic alerts that are effective beginning this week.

Greene County sheriff’s investigators on Friday arrested a 39-year-old woman, alleging that she had sex with William Monroe High School students.

The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors heard Friday that the school’s mission to raise $3 billion by 2011 is still on course — despite the economic downturn.

The Community Mediation Center of Charlottesville is facing an increasing demand for volunteer mediators.

The head of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority has resigned, making it the fourth time in 10 years that the authority will experience a change at the helm.

Tammy Harlow Cox, of Celt Road in Greene, faces two felony charges of taking indecent liberties with a child and three misdemeanor charges of rendering a child a delinquent by having sex with them, according to Maj. Randall Snead of the Sheriff’s Office.

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Charlottesville School Board members on Thursday saw that progress is being made in overall student achievement, but said there’s plenty of work to be done.

A Hispanic teenager was the victim in Tuesday’s fatal shooting at Autumn Hill Apartments on Commonwealth Drive, according to Albemarle police.

Searchers have had no luck finding the 50-year-old Staunton man who went missing Monday in Shenandoah National Park.

University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III’s remarks to the school’s Board of Visitors on Thursday led off by focusing on the projected state revenue shortfall that likely will soon impact publicly funded higher education.

Entrepreneur Halsey Minor has filed a class action lawsuit against Sotheby’s Inc. over the auction house’s alleged economic interests in a painting for which he bid $8.6 million.

Ruffin Hall is the second new building at the University of Virginia to be dedicated this week.

After initially saying Albemarle County Public Schools fell short, the Virginia Department of Education now concludes that the county’s schools have made Adequate Yearly Progress.

An 18-year-old Albemarle County man is in jail, facing charges in connection with a Tuesday night armed robbery of the Barracks Road Market, according to Albemarle County police.

The University of Virginia’s Institute on Aging is hosting a conference on Oct. 10 to focus on voting among seniors living in long-term care facilities.

Nearly six weeks after the University of Virginia banned all signs at its sporting events — including football and basketball — the university abruptly switched course Thursday afternoon and rescinded its controversial no-sign policy.

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“The policy prohibiting signs, banners and flags in all UVa athletics venues has become a distraction and has taken the focus away from supporting our student-athletes,” Craig Littlepage, UVa’s athletics director, said in a written statement.

Obama has a sizable lead in Northern Virginia (57 percent to 37 percent), but McCain is favored in the rural corners of the state and in the Richmond area. The race is a toss-up in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater region.

An Albemarle County man has been charged in connection with a Tuesday robbery at the Barracks Road Market

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