I took part in an amazing event in Charlottesville recently.

Hanging your clothes out to dry is once again permissible in Southampton.

Though the city’s Circuit Court and zoning board have both declined to bestow a historic designation on a disputed property in Woolen Mills, city councilors have now given neighbors hope that the site can be preserved.

A Western State Hospital mental patient who has been kept in seclusion or restraints for some 20 years was singled out a decade ago in federal investigations of the Staunton facility and in other reports on the hospital’s shortcomings.

Who would Thomas Jefferson vote for in the 2008 presidential race?

Drivers should expect delays on westbound Interstate 64 and U.S. 250 for at least four more weeks.

On the average day, 200 people receive a hot meal because of drivers who volunteer their time with the local Meals on Wheels program. Yet with skyrocketing gasoline prices, the program has found it difficult to recruit volunteers and has even lost some drivers completely.

George Garrett wrote like a man.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that tornadoes touched down in Maryland and Virginia during Wednesday’s storms that knocked out power to more than half a million customers in the region.

A federal appeals court upheld the conviction Friday of a Virginia man convicted of joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate President Bush, but said that he must be resentenced.

Firefighters worked Friday to contain a massive wildfire at a federal wildlife refuge in remote eastern North Carolina that was spreading smoke hundreds of miles into Virginia.

A 26-year-old man is charged with child abuse after authorities say he threw his 10-month-old daughter at a police officer in a desperate attempt to escape arrest for an earlier incident.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that Vermont has sole jurisdiction in a child visitation dispute between two former lesbian partners.

The Virginia Supreme Court says a former all-women’s college did not break a contract with female students when it decided to enroll men.

More than three years after a poacher shot off her upper beak, a bald eagle named Beauty can finally live up to her name — with the help of volunteers.

The accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks said he welcomed martyrdom at U.S. hands, as he and four codefendants faced trial for war crimes without the benefit of lawyers.

After installing TV cameras and removing covers during a spacewalk Thursday, the astronauts at the linked shuttle and station got ready for their next challenge: attaching a storage shed to the bus-size lab. The 210-mile construction job was set for Friday afternoon.

Senate Republicans on Friday blocked a global warming bill that would have required major reductions in greenhouse gases, after a bitter debate over its economic costs and whether it would substantially raise gasoline and other energy prices.

Barack Obama met privately with Hillary Rodham Clinton, a likely vice presidential candidate, as the Democratic nominee-in-waiting sought to unite his fractured party against Republican John McCain in November.

Powerless apartment lit by candle catches fire

Friday! Friday! Friday! Drive! Drive! Drive!

As if the injury of an intense Wednesday night thunderstorm wasn’t enough, Central Virginians are now suffering the insult of near-record heat.

Not long after two men accused of stealing a beloved hot dog mascot appeared in court, Harry the Hot Dog was wheeled into Old Dominion Prosthetics & Orthotics to start his rehabilitation.

A citizens’ board for Western State Hospital has determined that the facility has repeatedly violated the law in its treatment of a mentally ill patient who speaks little English.

I heard the other day that there are 250,000 refugees who have left Iraq, and 250,000 more who have left their neighborhoods within the country.

I was fortunate to see Pastor Harold Bare and Lori Ann Strait of Hope Community Center interviewed on the Ryal Thomas Show.  There could be much to expand upon from their comments on Hope’s care for Charlottesville’s homeless. 

I guess I’m finally beginning to get the picture.

As a daily user of U.S. 29 North in Albemarle County, I would like to ask drivers to examine their consciences in regard to their driving habits.

So. Praise for Charlottesville’s yurt plan was premature.

Albemarle County and Charlottesville officials and representatives will make a trip to Northern Virginia to hold a town hall meeting for the 650 to 800 employees who will move to the county-based National Ground Intelligence Center.