Democrat John Douglass, who seeks to challenge U.S.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed Senate Bill 41 Thursday, giving Thomas Haynesworth $1,075,178 in compensation after he served 27 years in prison for rapes he did not commit, according to a statement released by the Governor's office. Haynesworth was in prison from 1984 until last March, but he received a writ of innocence for all convictions in December last year, according to the statement.
Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University, kicked off this year's three-day Page-Barbour lecture series with a talk yesterday afternoon at the Harrison Institute about art history, nature and science. Founded in 1907, the Page-Barbour Lecture Series at UVa bring specialists to the University to lecture within any field of the arts and sciences. Kemp's lecture, titled "Platonic Solids," drew on both art and science in its examination of Platonic solids - polyhedrons, such as cubes or tetrahedrons - and their variants.
A 12-ton Navy jet crashed into a Virginia Beach apartment complex Friday afternoon, causing no deaths but leaving some residents temporarily homeless. The F/A-18D fighter jet experienced a mechanical malfunction at 12:05 p.m.
The Senate Finance Committee reached a compromise on the $85 million state budget Thursday after 21 days of special-session deliberations.
Virginia is among the nation's least-prepared states for water-related climate change threats, according to a report released Thursday by the National Resource Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group.
The Women's Center presented the Ella Baker Social Justice Award to Queer and Allied Activism Friday afternoon at its second annual Ella Baker symposium. Baker was a black civil rights activist who died in 1986.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for Sen.
Fourth-year College student Reedy Swanson is one of 12 students nationwide to receive a research fellowship from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for next year, the University announced yesterday. The Carnegie Endowment, based in Washington, D.C., promotes research and education in the fields of international relations and U.S.
Student Council held a transition ceremony for its incoming leaders and representatives in the Rotunda Dome Room yesterday evening.
Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Ted Genoways announced his resignation Tuesday evening, effective May 31, to focus on his writing career.
India's Ambassador to the United States, Nirupama Rao, made an official visit to City Hall yesterday to congratulate Charlottesville Mayor Satyendra Huja, a fellow native Indian, on his special election by Charlottesville City Council. Huja was elected mayor on a 5-0 vote by Council members in January.
Applied Predictive Technologies, a DC-based strategic consulting and software firm, hosted a weeklong University case study competition this week, which ended with an awards ceremony and reception yesterday evening. APT hosted the competition with the University's chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) to help students understand what consulting careers entail.
The University is one of 22 SEC and ACC schools participating in a virtual career fair which started Tuesday and ends today, and features 63 employers.
A Charlottesville grand jury indicted second-year Engineering student Ralph Samuel Rogers Monday in the Albemarle Circuit Court with 10 counts of child pornography. University Police worked with the Charlottesville Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children task force to arrest Rogers at Lambeth Field in December on 10 class six felony counts of possession of child pornography, University Police Captain Michael Coleman said.
A group attempting to minimize the legal repercussions which accompany the possession of marijuana approached Charlottesville City Council Monday with a resolution which aims to direct law enforcement away from marijuana prosecutions.
The Charlottesville Fire Department responded to a call Monday night which reported a chemical smell inside the common areas of the Corner Village at 1215 Wertland Street, according to an incident report released by the fire department yesterday. Charlottesville Fire Chief David Werner said department units, comprised of three fire engines, one tower, one hazmat unit and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, were dispatched to Wertland Street after people reported feeling sickly and suspected the odor was the cause. "Upon arrival, an odor was detected in the common hallways but at [the] time, nothing had been detected as a hazardous material," Werner said in an email. Werner said one of the buildings was evacuated as a precaution only. "There was a woman and then another young woman who felt sick after and asked for assistance from the rescue squad," Werner said in the email.
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