Rose Williams, a local advocate for the disabled, today will receive the Jackie Crews Award for Excellence in Leadership from the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities.

A jury trial for a 29-year-old charged with murder was postponed Monday until Aug. 4 in Charlottesville Circuit Court.

St. Anne’s-Belfield will begin an experiment in single-sex education this fall. Fifth-grade boys and girls will be separated for math and science courses, as St. Anne’s investigates whether single-sex classrooms provide more conducive environments for student learning and achievement.
“There is a body of evidence that brain differences in boys and girls are such that, to have one group as audience, you can tailor lessons in a better ways to capitalize on learning differences,” said St. Anne’s middle school head Fred Chandler. “We think it is worth trying out, but we are not committed to go beyond that if we don’t see that the benefits are great. I am fascinated and intrigued by the possibilities, but it is important to remember that it is an experiment.”

A man shot last week by police seeking suspects in the Interstate 64 shootings is still recovering from wounds to his arms and chest, his lawyer said Monday.
The man, whom both the lawyer and police would not identify, remains in stable condition at the University of Virginia Medical Center, officials said.
“He’s improving and he’s not on any life support,” said John Zwerling, an Alexandria-based lawyer. “He was shot in both arms and has a bullet in his chest.”

Two teens charged in last week’s Interstate 64 shootings made their first court appearances Monday.
Slade A. Woodson, 19, of Afton, requested a court-appointed attorney Monday morning in Waynesboro General District Court. His hearing in Albemarle General District Court was rescheduled for today.

Jason Scott Marshman won’t face a jury trial this week on murder charges in Charlottesville Circuit Court.

Woodson was scheduled for a bond hearing this morning in Albemarle General District Court, but it was rescheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old Afton man facing indictments for a string of shootings in Waynesboro and on Interstate 64 last week, appeared in a Waynesboro court Monday morning..

And, in the end, the rush you take, is equal to the rush you make ...

To date, the real world applications of nanotechnology have been somewhat limited in scope: stronger sunscreens, better cosmetics and stain-resistant fabric.
Yet in the coming years the great promise of this groundbreaking $4 billion industry will begin to pay major dividends and dramatically redefine the fields of electronics, medicine and energy production, scientists say. These impending advancements will not just improve the quality of life, but help researchers unravel the mysteries of how intricate atomic properties act and interact, Rosalyn Berne, a University of Virginia professor, told an audience Sunday during a nanotechnology “open house” and as part of the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Michael Berman was trying to sign into YouTube a couple of months ago when he accidentally clicked on the Community tab.
That mistaken click turned out to be extremely fortunate for Berman, a 17-year-old senior at United Christian Academy in Ruckersville. On the Community page, Berman discovered the Casio Dream Digs contest.

At home, in bed, at work, school or church, there is no safety and no one is to be completely trusted. That’s the price women, men and children often pay as sexual assault victims.

“When you’re going through cancer, you’re tired and you don’t want to be hopping from place to place,” said Sylvia Tyree, a 58-year-old Spotsylvania County resident who was treated for breast cancer at UVa in 1991 and 1994. “One-stop shopping would be nice.”
Within two years, patients like Tyree will have a more streamlined experience at UVa while getting treatment for cancer, a disease that is the nation’s second leading cause of death.

One of the more controversial uses of taxpayer money in the Charlottesville budget is again stirring debate among councilors: How much should be spent on new signs?

Shell casings from Slade Allen Woodson’s 1974 AMC Gremlin match ballistics recovered from Thursday’s early-morning shootings on and near Interstate 64, the Virginia State Police said Saturday.

RUCKERSVILLE — Greene County residents know the intersection of U.S. 29 and Route 607 as an infamous morning rush-hour delay, especially if they are crawling in the line of cars from the east.
“We talk about this every single morning,” said Roxcy Echard, an optician who lives a mile east of U.S. 29 along Matthew Mill Road and lines up early to inch past the Sheetz on her commute to work in Charlottesville.

“Opportunity Time, a Memoir by Gov. Linwood Holton” tackles the difficulties he and others encountered trying to win statewide office in the 1960s South for those like him who opposed segregation.

Shell casings from Slade Allen Woodson’s 1974 AMC Gremlin match those recovered from Thursday morning shootings on and near Interstate 64, according to the Virginia State Police.

The MySpace.com personal pages of one of the suspects in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings portray a heartbroken young man who revels in his country heritage.

A one-time accomplished Western Albemarle High School pole-vaulter and an unidentified 16-year-old Crozet resident were arrested Friday and face numerous felony charges in connection with the Interstate 64 sniper shootings.

When a grown man pulls a teenaged boy into the woods and sexually assaults him, it has a profound and long-lasting impact on that boy’s life. Joe Williamson can attest to that.

When Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III took the bench in 1984 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, he had no idea that things would be so different decades later.

One of the suspects in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings has a history of stealing pickups, joyriding and arson, according to records and investigators.

The man shot by the Albemarle County Police Tactical Squad during the arrest of a suspect in the Interstate 64 shootings remains in stable condition, a police official said this evening.

The Virginia State Police this evening announced a host of charges against a 19-year-old Afton man and an unnamed juvenile in connection with the Interstate 64 shootings.

Police probing the Interstate 64 shootings have found small-caliber cartridge casings inside an abandoned 1974 AMC Gremlin and believe the shooter used a .22-caliber firearm, according to court documents.

The arrest of Slade Woodson, 19, of Afton, in connection with two Waynesboro shootings early Thursday morning came as no surprise to Jill Tice, 43 ,whose home was struck by two bullets in one of the incidents.

The suspect in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings has a history of stealing pickups, joyriding and arson, according to records and investigators.

The Myspace.com personal pages of the suspect in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings portray a heartbroken young man who revels in his country heritage.

A 19-year-old Afton man arrested near Crozet has been charged with two Thursday morning shootings in Waynesboro and is suspected in a spate of gunfire on Interstate 64 that wounded two people and struck five vehicles.