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 four six 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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So easy to do (apparently) and so easily neglected by the web designers. Shame they didn’t implement this themselves. Thanks for the feed, Waldo.
Terrific job, Waldo. Thanks for doing this.
Uh, didn’t some certain somebodies from California get paid $70k? Why is Waldo doing the heavy lifting here?
The same reason Waldo didn’t get the $70k—Waldo’s dumb like that. :)
Waldo, you or any of another of the talented web developers here in town could have done the new cville site. I know we have expressed our outrage before, but it just seems really, really silly for the city to contract this sort of thing “out of house.” I think if you asked most web users around town, they would probably be willing to pay for a B-grade website by a local developer than an A-grade website from someone outside of the community.
And here, when all is said and done, we got a C+ grade site and paid out the nose to someone in CA. At least if a group in town did the site, they would be more likely to see feedback like this on cvillenews, AND have their client-base adversely affected if the site was not well received.
bummer.
That’s a really insightful point. That particular feedback mechanism had never crossed my mind.