Pro tip: Don’t keep your pot plants on your apartment balcony, especially if you also own a Glock, bongs, and cocaine. #
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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 understand, perhaps, the rationale behind passing a law that makes it illegal to possess a firearm while in possession of illegal substances, but I’m a little troubled by it. If the two in combination is so threatening, why not simply pass a law that makes it illegal to possess illegal substances while in possession of a firearm? I’m sure a thorough search of my home would turn up meds for which I long since ceased to have a prescription. It would also turn up firearms. Should a b suspend my constitutional right to bear arms? Why not also suspend my right to a trial or my right against illegal searches and seizures..?
this is more or less extremely tangential, but hopefully amusing:
five years ago a delayed flight and missed-connection stranded me in Barcelona for 24 hours; instead of waiting around the airport, I called up some friends-of-friends in the city and made plans to go out for dinner and maybe a drink… many hours later, extremely drunk, we returned to their apartment and crashed.
early the next AM i woke in unfamiliar surroundings, possibly still fairly tipsy from the night before. no one else was up yet, but I stepped out onto the balcony to catch some fresh air and enjoy the morning sun in a foreign country. it just so happened that every spare inch of this rather-sizable apartment balcony was covered in potted plants — maybe 60 or 70 of them — and gradually over the course of the next 10mins (in my still-incapacitated state) I slowly realized that they were all large, healthy marijuana plants; this guy had a veritable forest of weed growing behind his apartment.
just as this fact clicked together in my brain, i heard the screen door slide open behind me. my exuberant spanish host stepped out onto the balcony, spread his arms wide, and with a huge grin on his face, proudly exclaimed “WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY MAGNIFICENT GARDEN?”
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