The Charlottesville Fire and Rescue HAZMAT squad responded to a potential HAZMAT situation Thursday afternoon at 3:20 p.m.
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression announced Wednesday the recipients of its 21st annual Muzzle Awards, which recognize various private organizations, government officials and public agencies who the Center believes hinder freedom of speech. The awards are given to "those who in the previous year committed particularly egregious or ridiculous affronts to free expression," according to a Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression press release. The center, located in Charlottesville, defends "free expression in all its forms" by participating in the judicial and legislative processes, fostering education about First Amendment rights and promoting freedom of the arts, according to its website.
The cost of a higher education at public institutions has shifted from the state to families during recent years, Colette Sheehy, vice president for management and budget, said Thursday afternoon in a meeting with student leaders.
Update: Albemarle County Police and Albemarle County Fire and Rescue have cleared the incident at Fontaine Research Park. Albemarle County Police responded to a bomb threat at 560 Ray C.
The Charlottesville Open Government Alliance held a press conference yesterday morning to protest a motion which the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) filed March 22 with the Albemarle County Circuit Court.
Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed amendments this week to a state Senate bill which aim to lessen the restrictions the bill would place on voters' proof of valid identification. The bill, passed by the Senate in February and the House last month, would eliminate the provision which allows voters to cast a ballot without a valid state-issued ID, as long as the voter signed an affidavit confirming his identity. McDonnell spokesperson Jeff Caldwell said in an email yesterday the bill attempts to increase election security by decreasing voter fraud. "Ensuring the integrity of our elections is a cornerstone of a strong democracy," Caldwell said.
The University Law School hosted a forum yesterday afternoon about media piracy featuring viewpoints from Hollywood's Paramount Pictures and non-profit group Public Knowledge. Al Perry, the vice president of Worldwide Content Protection and Outreach at Paramount Pictures, said the community should take a stand against online content theft.
The University announced yesterday Assoc. Engineering Prof. Silvia Salinas Blemker and Assoc. Biology Prof.
Charlottesville City Council yesterday evening unanimously adopted a $146,269,910 budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
A Human Rights Task Force website launched Monday indicates the City of Charlottesville is a step closer to ultimately creating a human rights commission to address discrimination in the City.
Student Council validated the appointments of the executive board and presidential cabinet, the membership co-chairs, marketing and communications chair and CIO consultant co-chairs yesterday evening at the term's inaugural General Body meeting. The new executive board appointed the chairs after interviewing candidates from a pool of applicants.
The Albemarle County Fire Department responded to six brush fires yesterday, according to its website. The National Weather Service, after warning Albemarle County Monday that weather conditions may ignite wildfires, announced another Red Flag Warning yesterday from noon to 8 p.m. National Weather Service meteorologist Jared Klein said the National Weather Service would likely extend the brush-fire alert again, making it an unusually long Red Flag Warning period for the Albemarle County area.
The University pays full-time faculty higher salaries than all other higher-education institutions in Virginia despite a four-year state salary freeze, according to an annual report released yesterday by the American Association of University Professors.
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.
