Fifty people were involved in a brawl at Fashion Square Mall this past weekend, twenty people fighting and thirty cheering them on. Just when downtown looked like it might become more dangerous than Fashion Square for the first time in 15 years…
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- Jim Baldi is accused of stealing federal tax withholdings from his clients' employees. #
- The Coca-Cola bottling plant on Preston is closing down. Like the USPS, they're relocating services to Sandston. #
- Is the FBI looking for Jim Baldi? #
- Really, WINA? (Screenshot, for posterity.) #
- Charlottesville blogger Jamelle Bouie is getting famous. #
- The Progress has sent Brian McNeill to Michigan to cover Oliver Kuttner's X Prize attempt. I can't remember the last time the DP sent a reporter more than a few hours from C'ville. Good for them. #
- Leslie Macko, of Charlottesville, stood with the president in the Rose Garden yesterday as an example of somebody who needs unemployment benefits extended. #
- It's not a drought yet, it just seems like it. #
- Here are the documents unsealed in the Yeardley Love case. The Post summarizes them. #
- A Forest Lakes resident, angered by the culling of Canada geese to prevent plane crashes: "It's just so redneck." Um. #
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This is a community news blog about Charlottesville, VA, USA, started in March of 2001. It's run by Waldo Jaquith. It has nothing to do with C-Ville Weekly, the newspaper. Feel free to submit a story.
My brawl is bigger thn your brawl.
“The Brawl at the Mall” has a nice ring to it. sounds like a boxing match.