A state panel will get a computer-animated look at how storm surges and rising sea levels might affect eastern Virginia.

Keep Internet control out of corporate hands, writer says.

Record fuel costs cause record pain

Tuesday: It’s wet, it’s cloudy, it’s early. It must be rush

I find myself in sharp disagreement with the writer of the letter “Federal facility no benefit to area,” which appeared in The Daily Progress on April 14, and in full agreement with The Daily Progress editorial that characterized the move of at least 1,000 jobs to the area by the Department of Defense as a “Christmas present.”

The Intelligence Analysis Facility is not a smokestack industry.

That was a generous compromise the Charlottesville Board of Zoning Appeals extended toward Hope House.
The board affirmed that the homeless shelter is operating illegally in a residential neighborhood.
It would have been within its rights to allow city staff to shut the organization down, as staff had proposed.
Instead, the board ordered a delay of action while Hope House seeks a special exemption from City Council.

Authorities have filed two more felony charges against Interstate 64 shooting suspect Slade Woodson.

An Albemarle County convenience store clerk chased off a handgun-wielding thief Monday night.

A 29-year-old Charlottesville man charged in connection with a teenager’s slaying in March 2006 is scheduled for a two-day trial in September.

A Dillwyn man who was charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with a fatal traffic accident in February will serve 12 days in jail.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took a piece of chalk and drew three interlocking circles on the blackboard at the front of the American Politics 101 class taught by University of Virginia professor Larry J. Sabato.
Finding common ground is possible with any political issue, whether it is transportation, mental health reform or the expansion of pre-kindergarten education, Kaine told the UVa students.

An Appomattox woman was in “fair” condition at the University of Virginia Health System late Monday following a one-vehicle accident at about 9 a.m. in Nelson County. Two children in the vehicle were uninjured.

A Virginia Department of Forestry official who suffered extensive burns while fighting a massive brush fire in Buckingham County is expected to survive.

Ending weeks of speculation and rumor, the owner of Plan 9 Music confirmed Monday that his store on the Corner and the adjoining Satellite Ballroom will close at the end of May.

The long-planned and long-delayed Meadowcreek Parkway suffered another setback Monday when city councilors declined to endorse a design for a new interchange for its southern terminus.
Councilors were presented Monday with two options for a rebuilt interchange at McIntire Road and the U.S. 250 Bypass. A steering committee of city officials and residents had recommended councilors approve a diamond-shaped interchange that would run the 30-foot-high bypass over an oval roundabout, with the final design to be fleshed out later.

Gray clouds cried rain on the names of fallen and slain Charlottesville police officers as residents and officers dedicated a Market Street monument Monday to those who served the city to the end.

Two Louisa County parents are facing felony child endangerment charges after their 16-month-old son and 3-year-old son tested positive for cocaine and a prescription drug found in tranquilizers and sleeping pills.

Although investigators said it appears a high school senior who planned to carry out a Columbine-inspired attack was acting alone, only about half of the students enrolled at the school attended classes Monday.

The Chinese manufacturer of a heparin ingredient does not have adequate systems for ensuring that the raw materials it uses are safe and that any impurities are removed, the Food and Drug Administration told the company Monday.

Magistrate Thelma Simpson agreed to a request made by Tiny Virginia Makopo’s lawyer, who said he needed more time to consult with his client.

Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old Afton man facing charges for a string of shootings in Waynesboro and on Interstate 64 last month, appeared in a Waynesboro court this morning for an advisement on two new charges in the city.

“I’m predicting it’s going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect,“ said Barack Obama.

Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in 2006 to 511 in 2007. And the number of Marines with felonies rose from 208 to 350.

“This is a very beginning discussion as to whether something can be done, or whether something should be done,“ said John Bull, spokesman for the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.

Former game warden Michael Caison was in court Monday on felony embezzlement charges related in part to a 2004 African safari.

Before being sentenced to 23 months in prison on a child pornography charge, Kevin Alfred Strom stood up to tell what he called “the whole truth” of his case.

“It was quick. He tried to get out of the dozer as quickly as he could, but it happened faster than you could bat an eye,” said Greg Winston, the department’s regional forester.

The court on Monday turned down appeals from Thomas Arthur of Alabama, Earl Wesley Berry of Mississippi and Carlton Turner of Texas. The court blocked their executions last fall while it considered a challenge to Kentucky’s lethal injection procedures.

“They (Hamas) said that they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, if approved by Palestinians and that they would accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor next door in peace,“ Carter said.

Texas will test children’s DNA and then remove them from mothers