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At least two people were injured early this morning when their vehicles were shot on I-64 near an overpass on the east side of Afton Mountain, state police told The News Virginian. A 20-mile stretch of the interstate was closed from milepost 96 in Augusta County, near Waynesboro, to milepost 118 in Albemarle County.
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Albemarle County school officials are starting to consider ways to move about 90 pupils from Crozet Elementary to Brownsville Elementary by the 2009-10 school year.

After spending the night in Hope Community Center, more than 50 homeless people met Tuesday morning with employment counselors to craft resumes and get advice on finding a job.
Since a local winter shelter closed earlier this month, the community center, on 11th Street Northwest, has been inundated with men, women and children looking for a cot and a warm meal.
“They are in transition in life. They want to do better, but they need a place to call home,” said Josh Bare, who runs the center’s homeless shelter on behalf of his father, Harold L. Bare, a pastor at Covenant Church.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s Commission on Climate Change will hold its second meeting today at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
The 40-member commission is developing a plan to curtail Virginia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions in the state rose by 34 percent from 1990 to 2004 — a rate nearly twice the national average.

Driven by steady winds, a fire spread across 1,000 acres of isolated, steep, rocky terrain Wednesday in St. Mary’s Wilderness near Steeles Tavern as federal park officials and anxious residents looked on.
“I stayed up all night last night watching it,” said Lawrence Phillips, 62, who lives along Spy Creek Lane in a residential area near the blaze. “When there’s a fire nearby, you’re always worried.”

Dick Mountjoy, one of the most popular morning voices in the history of Charlottesville radio, died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Albemarle County.
Mountjoy, 61, spent the past two years battling throat cancer prior to his death from complications of his struggle.

The problem with all these newfangled TV journalists, veteran newsman Roger Mudd says, is their look-at-me mentality and their emphasis on soft news about subjects like health, dog training and lifestyles.

Rebecca Dowdell, 31, was part of a Ponzi scheme that raised about $200 million in investor funds through a sham investment company between April 1998 and April 2002.

The Virginia Festival of the Book kicks off today with events featuring veteran TV newsman Roger Mudd, photographs of Earth from outer space, Irish-American gangsters and poetry by 258 feminists.

A grand jury on Tuesday indicted a former facilities management employee of the Albemarle County schools, accusing him of using text messages to entice a Nelson County teenager to have sex with him.

The University of Virginia Student Council unanimously condemned the college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com on Tuesday, saying its postings about UVa students are “insensitive,” “malicious” and violate the university’s principles of honor and respect.

The Albemarle County Planning Commission turned a cold shoulder Tuesday night to a proposed development on east Pantops that, according to a developer, would include the biggest indoor sports complex in the state.

Construction is nearly set to begin on a new 25,265-square-foot complex for elite University of Virginia graduate students.
The “Jefferson Fellows Center” of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation will offer its graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows a place to congregate, perform research, exchange ideas and teach classes.

Gary Christopher Johnson, 18, walked into a federal courtroom Tuesday morning, unrestrained and wearing a gray sweat suit. He sat in a chair next to his attorney, about 10 feet from Katherine Danielle Howard’s family.

Veteran Daily Progress journalist Bob Gibson has been named executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.
The move punctuates a newspaper career that has spanned more than three decades and will bring years of experience and contacts from the front lines of Virginia politics to the Sorensen Institute.

An 18-year-old from New York was arraigned in federal court this morning in connection with the shooting death of Katherine Danielle Howard.

The offensive odors that regularly waft through the Belmont and Woolen Mills neighborhoods from the nearby wastewater treatment plant may soon be a thing of the past.

Robert Slimak, a 26-year-old University of Richmond law student who was camping and hiking with old friends and fraternity brothers from Virginia Commonwealth University, fell to his death on the falls Saturday afternoon.

The University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education announced Monday that it has hired a former official of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to be its first associate dean for research and faculty development.

Five years ago, University of Virginia scientists Deborah Lannigan and Jeffrey Smith extracted a compound from a rare South American plant that turned out to be a promising new treatment for breast cancer.

“We have 535 people who have the power to end this war so easily by just announcing they won’t bring up a vote on more funding or will vote ‘no’,“ said David Swanson, a board member of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice

Across the nation on Wednesday, veterans groups, politicians and antiwar activists will be commemorating the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. But not the Fargos. For them, the dates of significance are Feb. 28 and July 22 - Adam’s birthday and the day he was killed, respectively.

Charlottesville Democrats plan to serve political pasta this evening at the city party’s largest fundraiser of the year.  All area Democrats are invited to the eighth-annual Political Pasta Supper from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Senior Center, 1180 Pepsi Place.

UVA students protest in solidarity of other schools, although they are not affected

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday unanimously approved a large retail development that many in the shopping-deprived southern parts of Charlottesville and Albemarle County have said they welcome.

“It’s smart to have a certain amount of money reserved in order to respond to opportunities that might come along,“ said Aubrey Watts, the city’s economic development director.

The creation of the first city-staffed ambulance service last year, at a cost of $880,000, arguably divided Charlottesville residents more than any other new government program in recent years.

RICHMOND - Fourteen-year-old Emma Shreve knows her way around Thomas Jefferson’s Capitol and is sure she will miss the people she has met there the past 60 days.

10:30 a.m. Man injured, being investigated for hit-and-run and other possible offenses related to yestereday’s crash that shut power to about 340 customers…