4Better Or Worse


4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 25th, 2009 0 comments Biggest crime spree: Greenbrier neighborhood reports three stolen cars and numerous car larcenies during the wee hours of June 21. Stolen are a red 2001 Toyota Tacoma pickup, license ADK-7935, a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 18th, 2009 1 comments Biggest shift in the local landscape: UVA President John Casteen announces he'll step down August 1, 2010, from the position he'll have held 20 years, one of the longest tenures at a top-rated...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 11th, 2009 0 comments Worst nightmare: A 14-year-old girl asleep in her bed around 4am June 7 is shot and wounded in her 700-block Prospect Avenue home. The teen is in stable condition, and no arrest of the shooter has...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jun 4th, 2009 0 comments Worst break for aging sewers: Charlottesville is unable to get a slice of the stimulus pie to pay for the $22.5 million needed to replace its deteriorating sewer lines, Rachana Dixit reports in the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 28th, 2009 0 comments Most remorseful: Alleged child-killer Waverly "Eddie" Whitlock agrees to plead guilty May 20 in the death of 11-year-old Aziz Damar Booth June 3 only if he receives the death penalty, Tasha Kates...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 21st, 2009 0 comments Worst fall: A 17-month-old toddler plunges out of a second-story window onto his head May 18 at Heathwood Townhouse Apartments on Michie Drive and suffers a skull fracture and bleeding from the brain...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 14th, 2009 0 comments Most heinous: Nelson County retired teacher's aide and grandmother Opal Page, 73, is brutally stabbed to death in her Afton home early May 6. Arrested and charged May 11 are Christopher Meeks, 18, of...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on May 7th, 2009 0 comments Biggest change to the Downtown Mall landscape: The massive rebricking that started in January is nearly complete, and the Second Street crossing reopens May 4. Most unusual: The project comes in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 23rd, 2009 0 comments Biggest dump: The state Department of Environmental Quality investigates an illegal, three-quarters-of-an-acre site with eight-foot-piles of refuse at 2859 Crown Orchard Road in Batesville. According...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 16th, 2009 0 comments Most notorious black widow: Authorities discover the body of Mary Chavers' husband, Clent Chavers, in the couple's Amelia backyard, where she admits she buried him 15 years ago, and since 1994,...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 9th, 2009 0 comments Biggest turnaround: The previously doomed wading pool at McIntire Park gets a reprieve from City Council April 6. Latest hit to UVA's endowment: The money pool loses nearly $100 million in February,...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Apr 2nd, 2009 0 comments Biggest, loudest closing: The Downtown Mall crossings at 2nd and 4th streets shut down to traffic March 29 through April 30 for the mall rebricking. Biggest withdrawal: UVA law prof and former...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 26th, 2009 0 comments Biggest alleged meth lab: Reports of a strange smell lead police to the GrandMarc on 15th Street, where they recover chemicals that could be used to manufacture methamphetamine and evacuate the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 19th, 2009 1 comments Biggest 180: Albemarle's chairman of the Board of Supervisors, David Slutzky, who memorably compared last year's tax increase to the price of a pizza and beer once a month, says March 11 that he...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 12th, 2009 0 comments Latest sordid Staunton sex crime: Garage-owner Wayne Gill, 39, is arrested for child porn and prostitution March 6 after he pays a 17-year-old girl $300 for oral sex and then films her in the back...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Mar 5th, 2009 0 comments Biggest snowfall: Four inches fall at McCormick Observatory March 2, according to the Daily Progress, the area's greatest snowfall of the season. Typically winter snowfalls for this area average...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 26th, 2009 0 comments Most tradition-bound: UVA students overwhelmingly reject a referendum to create a multiple-sanction honor system, the Cavalier Daily reports. Seventy percent of those voting choose to stick with the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 19th, 2009 0 comments Biggest change of signal: Local TV stations NBC29 and the Newsplex make the jump from analog to digital broadcasting by February 17 as originally scheduled, despite Congress postponing the deadline...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 12th, 2009 4 comments Biggest clearing of the air: The House of Delegates approves 59-39 a diluted smoking ban February 9 in the state founded on tobacco after Governor Tim Kaine and House Republicans agree to a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Feb 5th, 2009 0 comments Worst place to be sentenced: The 16th Circuit, which includes Charlottesville and Albemarle, where the judges exceed sentencing guidelines 13.7 percent of the time, according to a Tasha Kates at the...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 29th, 2009 0 comments Most horrific crime: Less than two years after mass murders on the Virginia Tech campus, Chinese grad student Xin Yang, 22, is decapitated January 21 in the cafe at the Graduate Life Center where she...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 22nd, 2009 1 comments Most momentous middle of a Tuesday: Charlottesville stops to watch Barack Obama sworn in as the United States' 44th president January 20. Most swearings-in: U.S. Representative Tom Perriello...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 15th, 2009 2 comments Biggest housing slump: Albemarle sales fall 31.8 percent in 2008, according to the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors, and Charlottesville's drop 14 percent. The median in Charlottesville...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Jan 8th, 2009 0 comments Biggest brick-laying project: The $7.5 million rebricking of the Downtown Mall begins in earnest January 5. Scariest statistic: UVA's endowment is lighter by $280 million in November, down from $5.1...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 25th, 2008 0 comments Most gaping maw of a budget deficit (state level): Governor Tim Kaine projects the state will come up nearly $3 billion short for the 2009 fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2010. Worst news for UVA:...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 18th, 2008 0 comments Best plea: One of the alleged murderers of Jayne McGowan, William Douglas Gentry Jr., 23, pleads guilty to capital murder and five related charges in Charlottesville Circuit Court December 15 in...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 11th, 2008 0 comments Most gaping maw of a deficit: Albemarle's fiscal year shortfall grows from $4.9 million to $7.2 million. Brandon Shulleeta reports on the supes December 3 meeting for the Daily Progress. Worst...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Dec 4th, 2008 0 comments Most tragic local link to international terrorism: Nelson County residents Alan Scherr and his 13-year-old daughter, Naomi, are killed while eating at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, India, November 27....
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 27th, 2008 0 comments Least orderly in the court: Witness-assaulter Mark Wayne Shifflett, 46, who attacked and threatened to kill a former employee while handcuffed in Albemarle General District Court August 21 during a...
4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review Published on Nov 20th, 2008 3 comments Best he-said, he-said: CNET founder Halsey Minor and developer Lee Danielson offer contradictory reports on the $30-million Landmark Hotel now under construction on the Downtown Mall, including...