4Better Or Worse


The week in review Published on Sep 19th, 2013 2 comments Biggest box: The Albemarle Board of Supervisors okays a 155,000-square-foot Costco at Stonefield in a 4-2 vote, with Ken Boyd and Petie Craddock voting against. Costco threatened to ditch...
The week in review Published on Sep 11th, 2013 5 comments Most competent: Attorney-puncher Rashad Riddick's capital murder trial for the 2011 slayings of three family members will go forward following a hiatus to determine if he's capable of assisting...
The week in review Published on Sep 5th, 2013 5 comments Best news for preservationists: The keeper of the National Register of Historic Places determines that the Jesse Scott Sammons family house and cemetery is eligible for inclusion in the registry,...
The week in review Published on Aug 29th, 2013 0 comments Biggest anniversary: Fifty years after the March on Washington, thousands flood the Mall and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool August 24 where Martin Luther King made his historic "I have a dream...
The week in review Published on Aug 22nd, 2013 1 comments Worst rash of muggings: A 21-year-old man is robbed around 2am August 15 at 15th Street NW and Sadler Street, according to a release. The suspects are described as two black males about six feet...
The week in review Published on Aug 15th, 2013 1 comments Worst spate of muggings: A 51-year-old man is beaten and suffers a broken arm and black eye in an attempted robbery around 5:30am August 10 on East Market near Lee Park, NBC29 reports. The suspects...
The week in review Published on Aug 8th, 2013 1 comments First admission that the ABC screwed up: ABC commissioner Sandra Canada says the April arrest of a UVA student buying water at Harris Teeter has "embarrassed" the agency, "all because of the poor...
The week in review Published on Jul 24th, 2013 3 comments Latest in the McDonnell scandal: Governor Bob McDonnell repays more than $120,000 in loans from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, and issues an apology July 23 for "the embarrassment certain...
The week in review Published on Jul 18th, 2013 1 comments Latest in the ABC Harris Teeter debacle: The agent in charge of the operation that put a water-buying 20-year-old in jail with three felony charges, John Taylor, was stripped of his command of the...
The week in review Published on Jul 11th, 2013 0 comments Least surprising aftermath of the June 26 SCOTUS gay marriage ruling: The ACLU of Virginia says it will file a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Virginia laws that deny same-sex...
The week in review Published on Jul 4th, 2013 1 comments Latest Baldi plea: The former restaurateur/admitted embezzler Jim Baldi is in Charlottesville Circuit Court July 2 to plead guilty again, this time for taking between $22,000 and $23,000 from Café...
The week in review Published on Jun 26th, 2013 1 comments Latest in the McDonnell scandal: The Washington Post reports that the investigation into a $15,000 wedding gift for catering to Governor Bob McDonnell's daughter from Star Scientific's Johnnie...
The week in review Published on Jun 20th, 2013 1 comments Worst week for the Western 29 bypass: The Washington Post's Robert McCartney slams the project in his June 15 column, "Wasteful Charlottesville highway highlights problem with Bob McDonnell’s road...
The week in review Published on Jun 12th, 2013 0 comments Worst week for the Fourth Amendment: Sans search warrants, Verizon turns over millions of phone records to the National Security Agency, the Guardian reports. Also without search warrants, the NSA is...
The week in review Published on Jun 6th, 2013 1 comments Biggest abduction case: Former UVA employee Matthew Rene Beaulieu, 27, pleads guilty to abduction with intent to defile May 27. He grabbed an 18-year-old UVA student, who fought him off and escaped,...
The week in review Published on May 29th, 2013 0 comments Biggest trial: A jury finds Food Lion manager Mark Weiner, 53, guilty of abduction with intent to defile May 24 after a four-day trial and recommends a 20-year sentence. Weiner was accused of...
The week in review Published on May 23rd, 2013 0 comments Worst trend, part 1: Nine people overdose on heroin in Culpeper and Spotsylvania last week, and two die, according to a release. Worst trend, part 2: Virginia's suicide rate is the highest in 13...
The week in review Published on May 15th, 2013 0 comments Closest tie to Boston Marathon bomber: The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was refused burial space all over the northeast. He's quietly buried in a Doswell cemetery in in Caroline County, and outrage...
The week in review Published on May 8th, 2013 0 comments Best sign racism is alive and lurking: Some miscreant paints a racial slur and crude pornographic image on Beta Bridge May 1 that's condemned by UVA President Teresa Sullivan, the Student Council,...
The week in review Published on May 1st, 2013 1 comments Worst carjacking: Three men approach the driver of a yellow Nissan Xterra on Longwood Drive around 9:30pm April 25, rob the driver, and one of the suspects pulls a gun, NBC29 reports. When the...
The week in review Published on Apr 24th, 2013 3 comments Latest tuition increase at a best-value university: UVA ups its in-state tuition and fees 3.8 percent to $12,458 a year, making a year there around $26,000. Out-of state students get hit with a 4.8...
The week in review Published on Apr 17th, 2013 4 comments Latest Albemarle traffic fatalities: An 88-year-woman driving a 2002 Buick LeSabre plows into the median and a tree on U.S. 29 south of Hollymead Town Center April 10, killing her 87-year-old...
The week in review Published on Apr 11th, 2013 0 comments Biggest margin: Democrat Jason Vandever wins the special election for Charlottesville treasurer April 2 by 75 percent with 1,280 votes to independent opponent John Pfaltz's 397 votes. Biggest...
The week in review Published on Apr 3rd, 2013 1 comments Worst first: Albemarle has its first traffic fatality March 27 followed by two more two days later (see related story page 10). In 2012, 12 people died on county roads. Worst week for fatal crashes:...
The week in review Published on Mar 27th, 2013 1 comments Worst trend: Charlottesville becomes the wild West again with another incident of gunfire on a weekend night at a crowded venue. The latest bullets erupt March 22 at the Buffalo Wild Wings parking...
The week in review Published on Mar 21st, 2013 0 comments Latest slam on the BoV's June debacle: The American Association of University Professors releases a report on Rector Helen Dragas' firing of President Teresa Sullivan and calls it a "crude...
The week in review Published on Mar 13th, 2013 1 comments Worst missing girl case: Jennifer Carolina Romero, 16, at first was believed to be a runaway when she disappeared from her Weyers Cave home March 2. Police now think that through social media, the...
The week in review Published on Mar 6th, 2013 0 comments Biggest predicted snowfall: We've been duped before this winter, but the National Weather Service calls for 8-14 inches of snow– up from 4 to 8 inches– starting Tuesday evening, March 5,...
The week in review Published on Feb 28th, 2013 0 comments Best/worst news for transportation in Virginia: The General Assembly passes a bill to address the Commonwealth's crumbling infrastructure that shifts the gas tax from the pump to wholesale, ups the...
The week in review Published on Feb 21st, 2013 0 comments Most candidates: Kristin Szakos announces she'll seek a second term on City Council February 14. Dem precinct chair Jonathan Stevens says he'll run for Charlottesville commissioner of revenue. Former...