A second case of West Nile Virus in Albemarle County has been confirmed. The first case was in a crow found on Garth Road in early September. This latest case, also avian-borne, was discovered on September 28th near Farmington. 128 birds have tested positive in Virginia so far this year, and there should be very few more cases between now and the end of the year, given that mosquito season is ending. No human infections have yet been reported in Virginia. WVIR had the story on their 11pm broadcast.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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What’s sad is that the first case of West Nile disease was very underreported on WVIR. This occurred during the WTC attacks and so the attention was more on county/city donating time, money and their feelings on this. Now to quibble a bit, why does WVIR waste time asking “average” citizens what they about this that or the other? It’s just not newsworthy and eats up air time. And, in the case of the WTC/Pentagon attacks, what are the odds of finding someone stupid enough to say something contrarian.
You have to understand that WVIR is barely a news agency, their idea of journalism is taking a camera a few feet from their studio and pointing it at traffic. Chances are you know as much about the news as they do.
Right on! Let’s face alot of our local news just sucks because of the lack of alternate news sources. We have one daily, one TV station, our NPR stations take our donations and give use very little coverage in Roanoke/Harrisonburg. And WINA is a shadow of it’s former glory. Thanks to cvillenews for giving us a forum to talk issues.
I hope that I’m not betraying the confidence of Brad Eure (owner of WINA) by saying this — for all I know it’s public knowledge — but they’re actually expanding their local news time. Now that Nancy King’s show is (quite sadly) gone, they’re increasing their local coverage time by an hour each day, with a new call-in show hosted by Dick Mountjoy. I’m really excited about this, as I am about any venue to discuss local news in a non-controlled (ie, a call-in show) fashion. So you may not be thrilled with WINA (though I’m quite pleased with them, personally), but know that they’re improving things.
WINA really does an outstanding job with the news. In fact, it’s safe to say they have the only real radio news organization in town (all of the Clear Channel stations get their news from the WINA site [occasionally reading it verbatim on the air, which is so very professional of them] and the DP, and the NPR stations do seem to ignore us).
There’s really no other source for in-depth local news.
I am concerned, however, as I’ve heard that Clear Channel (who owns the company that distributes Rush) is pulling Rush Limbaugh and some other programming from WINA to put it on one of their 6 stations. I’m definitely not a Rush fan, but I’m sure his show generates a ton of revenue for WINA. Or, at least it did. I dearly hope they can replace that revenue stream.