C’ville and Albemarle are getting hip to social networking, meeting citizens on their own turf, which is great. THOUGH CVILLETWEET IS IN ALL CAPS, oddly. #
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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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I think the ALL CAPS decision for cvilletweet is because the City told me that feed is connected via RSS to the news crawl on public access Channel 10. It is pretty small print on my little office TV, so ALL CAPS seems to improve the visibility. Brian Wheeler
WOW, THAT’S ANNOYING. I CAN BARELY READ IT. NO FOLLOW FOR YOU.
Brian is correct, we currently use it because it shows up much better on Channel 10 but we may change that so that no one thinks we are SHOUTING. It’s great to be able from home to put something on 10 everyone can read if the need arises but we don’t want to annoy folks. Thanks for the input.
That’s actually a pretty clever repurposing of existing material, Ric. Rather than having somebody whose job it is to transcribe that stuff, all of the data comes out of the same pipe. I like it.