
Northam announces administration appointments
Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments on Friday.

Gov. Ralph Northam announced additional appointments on Friday.

A Washington, D.C., man arrested in connection with the murders of women in Charlottesville and Harrisonburg is now being looked at in a string of additional murders.

You want to know how serious Virginia Democrats are about protecting a woman’s right to an abortion? They’ve still got a couple of weeks to pass legislation protecting the right to choose, but then, that would impact their holiday vacation plans.

Cigarettes in Augusta County will be taxed at a rate of 15 cents per pack beginning Jan. 1.

Albemarle County has hired Grunley Construction for pre-construction services associated with the $45.2 million courts complex addition and renovations project.

We’ll root for Bronco Mendenhall to lead Virginia to victory in the Fenway Bowl so that his final season in Charlottesville is a winning one, but either way, he’ll hand things over to Tony Elliott the afternoon of Dec. 29 with things trending up.

Three properties in Charlottesville and Albemarle County owned by the University or the University of Virginia Foundation have been selected as the sites proposed for a new housing development initiative.

RIVANNA®, an imaging-based medical solutions developer, will invest $260,000 to expand and renovate its facility in Albemarle County. Virginia successfully competed with North Carolina for the project, which will create 18 new jobs.

Chris Slade and a slew of other former Virginia gridiron greats made the trip to Charlottesville Monday to welcome Virginia’s 42nd head football coach, and Slade made it clear after that he liked what he saw and heard.

By spring practice, hell, by next week, you’ll have forgotten the drama from this week surrounding the Virginia football coach search.
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