The typical home in the neighborhood around Second Street Northeast is about 2,000 square feet. So, would a 6,000-square-foot house alter the character of the neighborhood? Depends on whom you ask.

Daily Progress reporters Brian McNeill and Jeremy Borden have been named winners of a statewide real estate journalism award for their 2007 series exploring the issue of housing prices in Central Virginia.

James H. Long Jr. was sentenced Friday to two life sentences and an eight-year sentence for multiple weapons charges for his part in the March 2005 shooting deaths of Burr Hill residents William Browning and Vicki Truax.

Charlottesville is forming a resident advisory committee for the police department, but the new group will not have the power to independently investigate complaints against officers.

Robert Fulghum returned to kindergarten for inspiration — why not UVa?
A University of Virginia group staged what used to be called “a happening” this week, based on a theme as unpretentious as show and tell.

Re: “Soccer balls bring solace to children,” The Daily Pro-gress, April 26, about donating soccer balls to children in Mosul, Iraq:

Leaving Charlottesville by air, one becomes acutely aware of the disfigurement that would be created by a water pipeline from the Rivanna River to Ragged Mountain Natural Area - a 10-mile scar across the face of Albemarle. Is this what we want to leave for the next generation?

For 25 years I have lived in Charlottesville and have enjoyed every day, season and year here. This is a very special community and great place to live, but we all know that. Visitors see what we have, tell us about it and many return to live here

After five days of testimony, evidence and arguments at his trial earlier this year, it took jurors only hours to find Long guilty of the slayings.

DC Madame commits suicide

Cocaine market changing

More jobs may have been lost

Friday! What a rush!

An exhibit opening Saturday at the University of Virginia Art Museum will be missing one colorful piece — a short film and sculpture that depict a pile of orange and blue dog poop.

A potential obstacle to the Meadowcreek Parkway was removed Thursday when the Charlottesville School Board voted 4-1 to donate approximately 8.5 acres at Charlottesville High School to the Virginia Department of Transportation for the long-planned project.

Local blogger and former Daily Progress political reporter Bob Gibson tells us that Paul Harris, a Northern Virginia Republican who served two terms in the House of Delegates from Albemarle County until 2001, has decided not to run for attorney general next year. 

Albemarle County officials are taking away residents’ property rights and money without regard for their constituents’ concerns, attendees at a packed meeting said Thursday night.

The driver of a dump truck involved in a fatal accident July 17 in Louisa County has been indicted on involuntary manslaughter charges.
Jerome J. Booker Jr., 38, was charged with three felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and one misdemeanor count of reckless driving in indictments handed down in March by a grand jury. Thomas A. Garrett Jr., Louisa commonwealth’s attorney, said Thursday that Booker is scheduled for a jury trial in August.

Government by gridlock? 
Surely, we can do better.
Progress on the Meadowcreek Parkway has stalled again, this time over design of the interchange at McIntire Road and the U.S. 250 Bypass. Charlottesville City Council rejected a proposed design — but lacks consensus over what should replace it.

We are currently diving headlong toward the most devastating depression ever experienced. Commodity prices, including oil, are skyrocketing at an accelerated rate, without any improvements anticipated in the foreseeable future. Yet, Washington, both the executive and legislative powers, continues to fiddle a la Nero.

Police said they were trying to confirm the woman’s identity, but did not immediately have additional comment when reached by telephone. Palfrey’s attorney, Preston Burton, did not return a telephone call and e-mail message.

“We come to let Washington know we’re still here. We’re still fighting,” said Jorge Guzman, 34, as crowds swelled in Chicago’s Union Park before a march to a federal plaza downtown.

Belarus has been given until May 16 to withdraw its six diplomats at the two missions and the American embassy in Minsk will cease operations as early as Friday, officials told the Associated Press. 

The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to grant the designation to the so-called Journey Through Hallowed Ground.

A disaster response center to help people affected by Monday’s tornadoes is opening in Suffolk.

“Weeks ago there were at least a dozen males,” said Laura Thurman. “I just thought that’s what ducks do. But the next morning, when I saw her dead, I said that can’t be what ducks do because then, they’d all be dead.”

Thursday, the fourth Monday of the week…

Dave Morris and his wife, Elizabeth, of Waynesboro, received a $1.35 million settlement Wednesday in a case stemming from the September 2001 birth of their son.
Asphyxiated at birth, Hunter has cerebral palsy and brain damage. He will never live independently.

Under pressure from city officials and hemorrhaging money, the owners of the Hope Community Center will close their homeless shelter by the end of the month.