Thirty-four year old Billy Wagner owns a pair of farms just outside of town, on which he raises a few dozen alpacas. Wagner’s had to pick up a second job, though: pitcher. The Mets signed him yesterday in a four-year, $43M deal, the Asbury Park Press reports. The Virginia native was with the Phillies, but the hotshot pitcher became interesting to a number of teams recently, with the Mets winning the bidding war. I don’t have any love for the Mets, but if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, they’re cool by me.
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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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psst this is a sports story on CVillenews? OMG!!
I wrote it just for you.
Merry Christmas!
don’t push your religious agenda on me mister!
Happy Festivus!
“It’s a Festivus MIRACLE!”
Billy Wagner is a really nice guy and helps the UVA baseball team out. Still that is alot of money for throwing a ball very, very fast. I hope he saves lots of games for the Mets, they really need him.
Happy Festivus everybody!
Looking forward to that first Ryan Zimmerman HR off of Wagner. And the one after that, and the one after that, and …
From today’s DP by Whitelaw Reid “With the holidays fast approaching, Cosmo Kramer may have called what transpired last night at University Hall “a festivus miracle.”
Sport story: Festivus I think somebody been reading cvillenews.
Waldo, are you in on this?
It’s related to that Charlottesville media conspiracy that I’m occasionally accused of being part of. We have a general plot to tighten the lihbrul media grip on the nation, squeeze out the religious right, ban Christmas and replace it with Festivus.
But I’ve said too much.
haha, you know i was kidding about the whole Christmas thingie!
Hope that Ryan Zimmerman hits a lot of homers too next year, Big Al. But wish even more that MLB gets the ownership issue settled so that the team can compete on an even basis. They made a great run this past season but just didnt have the players to keep it up. And already they have lost one of their key pitchers(Esteban Loiaza) to Oakland. Thats pretty bad. Its one thing not to be able to compete with the Yankees financially, but a fiscally-limited team like the A’s? What Selig and Co. has been doing is unfair.
While I was delighted to see the White Sox win the World Series this year, I’d like to point out that Washington has not hosted a post-season since 1933. At least Chicago has done that since then(1935,1938,1945,1959,1983,1984,1989,1993,1998,2000,2003) even if a team from there didnt win the whole thing until this year. Of course the city was without a team 1972-2004.
I grew up with the original Washington Senators (now the Twins) in the 50s and have always hoped one day to see a team from Washington go to the World Series. Maybe next year….(or the year after).
Yep – Bud and his cohorts are greedy idiots, and the Nationals need and deserve an owner – which was promised by the All-Star break last July. Once an owner is found, there’s still the issue of getting a stadium built in D.C. – which is by no means a sure thing. The NoVa suburbs aren’t out of the picture yet.