Alan Scherr, 58, and his 13-year-old daughter Naomi, were on a retreat with members from the spiritual community in Mumbai and were killed at the Oberoi Hotel when it was attacked.

The University Transit Service bus drivers are a tight knit group who drive, live and hang out together.

Let me be the first of the work week to ask: How was your Thanksgiving?

It was only months ago when a pair of Albemarle County students needed shoes.

The Charlottesville-based Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonpartisan educational reform organization, is turning its attention to its own backyard.

“Diesel is in my blood,” UTS administrative manager Kendall Howell said one recent afternoon as he, drivers and dispatchers gathered in the UTS dispatching hub.

Only in elementary school when the rumblings of integration were pervading Charlottesville, Martin Burks did not realize something was not right about the Jefferson School until schools started to close.

The enigmatic phenomenon that is a near-death experience has prompted a group of international scientists and physicians known as The Human Consciousness Project to launch AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), which it bills as “the world’s first large-scale scientific study of what happens when we die and the relationship between mind and brain during clinical death.”

Hope Community Center is expecting 1,000-plus people to attend its inaugural Free Clothing and Toy Give Away.

For Albemarle County veterinarian Liz Palmer, death is as much a part of life as birth, but that doesn’t mean it should be as traumatic.

Amid a difficult economy, a hotel search engine started by two 2005 graduates of the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration has raised $3 million in investment capital.

“Excuse me, where’s electronics?” a man asked Aisha Cunningham, who directed aisle traffic at Toys “R” Us in Albemarle County on Black Friday.

FABER — A Nelson County man and his 13-year-old daughter were among at least four Americans killed in a series of orchestrated terrorist attacks on luxury hotels and other sites in Mumbai, India, that left more than 150 people dead.

They marched to music, danced to song and rode buoyed on the wheels of Mustangs, Thunderbirds and Barracudas in the mosaic of life that is the annual Barracks Road Shopping Center Holiday Parade.

In 1990, 21,421 people lived in Orange County.

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“Alan was probably one of the most beloved persons here. He will be greatly missed,“ Garvey said.

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Rush the Mall!

Charlottesville-area residents who are looking to sneak in a workout whenever possible now have more places to do it.

It’s no secret that, after having received 12 awards just this year for its efforts, Charlottesville is hooked on green building.

If a $25 billion emergency loan package for the auto manufacturing industry does not win approval in Congress, auto dealers in the Charlottesville area say local sales of certain vehicles might take a nosedive.

ADIAL — Two Nelson County residents who were visiting Mumbai, India, have gone missing after the terrorist attacks there that left more than 100 dead.

Master Charles and his followers at the Synchronicity Foundation meditate while he describes his visions of a Virgin Mary apparition.

The Synchronicity Foundation, headquartered in Nelson County, was hosting a meditation program at the Oberoi Hotel, one of the sites hit by the attacks.

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Some charity fund drives keep families from going hungry and others leave no child behind beneath the Christmas tree, but the 115-year-old Santa Fund keeps kids warm and safe all year long.

Wintergreen Resort is opening its ski slopes this weekend — two weeks ahead of the scheduled launch of this winter’s ski season.

Pumpkin cheesecake is the easiest thing to cook but “the hardest to get perfect,” said second-year culinary arts student Michael Baber

A 20-year-old Albemarle County resident involved in a serious accident Monday night has died from her injuries.

Charlottesville’s $2.1 million surplus from fiscal 2008’s general fund could be used to reduce budget deficits in fiscal 2009 and beyond, according to city staff.

Woman critically injured in Monday wreck is dead

Away we go a weasle-ing ... that can’t be how that song goes…..