Charlottesville police have arrested a Richmond man in connection with the Tuesday robbery of a Wachovia Bank.

Officers found the bag and jeans on a nearby hillside after Daily Progress staff members pointed them out.

The University of Virginia Medical Center is adding “non-competition” clauses to the employment agreements of its 800 clinical faculty members — a move that one UVa physician criticized as bad for health care in the Charlottesville region.

When the Defense Intelligence Agency brings an estimated 800 employees to Rivanna Station in September, it will join the nearly $110 million defense-related industry already headquartered in Central Virginia.

“It basically was all of the money that we had”

To honor a 9-year-old baseball fanatic who died suddenly last month, University of Virginia baseball players will work today to revitalize a baseball field at an Albemarle County elementary school.

Two University of Virginia engineering students who designed an inflatable life-preserving belt took home $20,000 in start-up capital Friday for winning UVa’s inaugural Entrepreneurship Cup.

It took only a couple of hours Friday for a jury to find Gary Delgross guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal beating, with a carpenter’s level, of an Orange County man.

A Charlottesville jury shuffled back into the courtroom just after 1 a.m. Friday to recommend a 27-year sentence for the man convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl in a shed.

Marines, postal officials and family gathered in front of Charlottesville’s main post office Friday as it was dedicated in memory of a local Marine killed in Iraq.

Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Alexandria, got an earful on health-care reform from a group of small-business owners Friday while protesters rallied outside Warner and Sen. Jim Webb’s Richmond offices.

The lawsuit brought by the owner of the incomplete Landmark Hotel against former developer Lee Danielson has been reduced to a breach of contract case.

It took only a couple of hours today for a jury to find Gary Delgross guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal beating of an Orange County man with a carpenter’s level.

A man who may now be sans pants robbed a bank in Pantops on Friday.

A bomb scare that closed a University of Virginia parking deck Thursday afternoon turned out to have been caused by a toolbox.

A Charlottesville police officer has been charged after crashing as he scrambled to get to a bank robbery.

A man who caused a four-vehicle accident just before 10 p.m. Wednesday when his Lexus veered out if its lane on Seminole Trail northbound tried to run from the scene before being caught by federal police, according to an Albe-marle County police news release.

Rainy weather led to full storm drains, flooded roads and bridges and a few traffic accidents Thursday.

One of the six GOP candidates seeking their party’s nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, promised his supporters Thursday that he would never raise taxes, would serve a maximum of three terms in Congress and would never add an “earmark” to legislation.

A handful of protesters picketed in the rain Thursday afternoon outside Charlottesville’s federal courthouse to call for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

There will be at least three new members of the Albemarle County Planning Commission when it convenes for the first time in early January.

Charlottesville and Albe-marle County have been given the top award by the Virginia Municipal League for their efforts to implement environmentally friendly practices.

An undertaking that is transforming a 19th-century Charlottesville church into a day shelter for the homeless is nearly completed.

PORTSMOUTH — Local governments aren’t likely to escape the pain when the General Assembly attempts to eliminate an estimated $3.5 billion hole in the next two-year budget.

Authorities are urging customers of Lake Monticello Service Company Waterworks to boil their water as a result of low pressure.

Storms slam area, take rush out of rush hours

A Charlottesville filmmaker’s video on health-care reform has won a national contest sponsored by President Barack Obama’s “Organizing for America.”

The local center has 181 employees.

A man was shot in the arm shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday on the 900 block of Rives Street, according to Charlottesville police.

The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority will present a draft master plan next month for redeveloping the city’s public housing.