After a $500,000 investment and a year-and-a-half of intense review and design overhauls, the Eastern Connector is on life support and fading fast, some elected Albemarle County and Charlottesville officials believe.

Tom Perriello, an Albemarle County native active in the progressive religious movement, has claimed the Democratic Party nomination to run against 5th District Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-Rocky Mount, in the Nov. 4 election for Congress.

3:20 p.m. Tom Perriello has claimed the Democratic Party nomination to run against 5th District Rep. Virgil H. Goode.

Virginia is only one of a handful of states in which secondary, local roads are constructed and maintained by a state agency. 

The painting and photograph hang on opposite ends of Juhiza Khamis’ Charlottesville living room, solemn reminders of her homeland and the son she left behind.

Supervisor Joe N. Chambers Jr. currently owes the county four years’ worth of unpaid real estate taxes and a year of delinquent personal property taxes, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

A grand jury on Tuesday indicted two men charged in the murder of a University of Virginia graduate killed in her Charlottesville home.

A man charged with capital murder in the death of a Charlottesville woman fatally shot in her home waived his right to a preliminary hearing Thursday.

4:30 p.m. The charges against William Douglas Gentry, 22, will now go to a grand jury Tuesday. If he is indicted, the case will then go to Circuit Court for a possible trial.

Jeffrey Brown will become the new head of the Upper School at St. Anne’s-Belfield on July 1.

Half an hour after three networks called Virginia in his column, Barack Obama placed a telephone call at about 7:30 p.m. to Charlottesville resident Betty Van Yahres to express his condolences over the death Friday of her husband, former Del. Mitchell Van Yahres.  “I almost fell over,“ Van Yahres said an hour after she took Obama’s call. “He made my day. I’ve been sad.“

Two summers ago Lindsay Esterly was trapped in the morass of chronic homelessness, quietly and anonymously living in the shadows of society.

Over the next two decades, the foremost priorities of the University of Virginia will be to enhance the student experience; boost science and technology; and emphasize global education, research and service.

This story makes significant corrections to a previously published version.

As part of a statewide initiative, an effort is being made throughout the Charlottesville area to encourage eighth-graders to pursue advanced courses in high school to open doors to better career opportunities.

1:00 p.m. Michael Stuart Pritchett, 18, and his 22-year-old cousin, William Douglas Gentry, are accused of killing Jayne Warren McGowan during a robbery at her St. Clair Avenue home.

RUCKERSVILLE - Craig LaMountain sat at his kitchen table flanked by a piece of fresh crumb cake and a mug of steaming instant coffee.

Guitars, bassoons and tambourines may be headed the way of Betamax.

Two Virginia congressmen applauded a move by the Federal Reserve to slash a key interest rate Tuesday in an effort to shore up what it called “a weakening of the economic outlook.“

With more than 600 residential units slated to be built over the next two years in downtown Charlottesville, some developers and city planners are predicting that the combination of the flagging economy and the amount of competition will precipitate the downfall of a few of these high-rise projects.

The town of Scottsville’s post office moved out of the historic downtown earlier this month - a move that doesn’t sit well with residents who have been coming and going from the small-town hub since the 1960s.

Scottsville has secured a $392,000 earmark from the federal government, the town’s mayor said Monday.

The founder of a self-described “white nationalist” group pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to possessing child pornography.

The Albemarle County Planning Commission has recommended that supervisors not pave any more rural-area roads, except in the case of unsafe situations.

Tom Perriello, an Albemarle County native challenging 5th District Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., R-Rocky Mount, apparently wrapped up his party’s nomination Tuesday as fellow Albemarle Democrat David Shreve dropped out of the contest.

Before the new millennium, buying a television was practically a no-brainer.

The U.S. Army has found that expansion plans for the National Ground Intelligence Center in northern Albemarle County will have “no significant” environmental impact, according to a recent report.

The following Central Virginia residents have been honored by The Daily Progress as part of the Distinguished Dozen series.

Mandatory water restrictions that have been in effect in Charlottesville and Albemarle County since mid-August likely will be lifted, as water officials said Wednesday that they expect depleted area reservoirs to refill by the end of April.  However, a “drought watch,“ which encourages voluntary conservation, will remain in place.

From personal tragedies to team triumphs,here’s a look at the stories that impacted Central Virginians the most this year