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sporting events — including football and basketball — the university abruptly switched course Thursday afternoon and rescinded its controversial no-sign policy.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

Traffic makes the sound of the low spark of high-heeled boys.

A Charlottesville man who was facing deportation to Russia will get a second chance to have his case heard before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Cost estimates for the proposed Eastern Connector range from $40 million to $169 million depending on the size of the road and its location, according to the consultant overseeing an alignment study.

Albemarle county and school officials left a joint meeting uncertain Wednesday how much of a salary increase staff and teachers will receive next fiscal year — if any.

A Charlottesville man admitted to a stabbing incident that hospitalized one man and killed another, according to a statement made in court Wednesday.

Covering more of the nation’s 45 million Americans without health insurance is a top campaign promise by both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Albemarle County residents receiving tax benefits for keeping rural land undeveloped will soon have to revalidate every two years to keep their eligibility in the program.

Nearly nine months passed before the year’s first homicide in Albemarle County.

The area where a 50-year-old man went missing is secluded and dangerous, according to Albemarle Sheriff J.E. “Chip” Harding.

The Republican campaign to elect John McCain and other GOP candidates in Central Virginia has opened a volunteer coordinating office in Albemarle County.

University of Virginia and Harvard researchers recently published work on a new approach toward creating more effective antibiotics.

Police said they believe Lamont Jermaine Blakey, Joshua Lee Gibson and James Edward Brown may have known one another. An argument over a woman prior to the incident may have been related to the incident, authorities said. Barrick previously said that witnesses to the stabbing described the knife as being as much as a foot long.

Killing tops busy day for Albemarle County police.

City police have identified the man killed Tuesday afternoon in Friendship Court as Joshua Lee Gibson.

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The Daily Progress photo staff collects photos from past autumn leaf displays around Central Virginia, giving a preview of the upcoming fall foliage displays. 

Like a fruit not quite ripe, most of Central Virginia’s fall foliage remains in a late-summer shade of green with autumnal reds and golds several weeks in the future, according to the Virginia Department of Forestry.

The Charlottesville region’s unemployment rate has hit its highest point in at least six years, according to August figures released Tuesday.

The construction of an interchange at the U.S. 250 Bypass and McIntire Road in Charlottesville has alarmed several Hillcrest Road residents and nearby neighbors, who say the blocking of the residential street will hinder emergency access and aggravate traffic on an already clogged road.

“To our knowledge, nothing’s ever happened at school,” Jennifer Richter, assistant superintendent for instruction said.