Charlottesville

The June 27 news photo on Page A14 of reinstated University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and Rector Helen E. Dragas said it all. Poor Ms. Dragas was outmaneuvered and blindsided by someone who has had more than two decades of experience successfully dealing with university governing boards. Political connections, a business career and a few years serving part time on U-Va.'s Board of Visitors had ill prepared Ms. Dragas to take on someone who has not climbed to the highest summit of academia without knowing how to...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia State Police say neither the instructor nor the student who was at the controls was injured when their two-seat aircraft was forced to make a "belly" landing in Charlottesville. The rough landing occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday at Charlottesville-Albemarle County Regional Airport. The student was attempted to land the 1961 Piper Commanche when it made came down hard on the runway, causing its landing gear to retract. The plane then skidded...

The Christmas season is when people tend to pull out all the decorating stops. The more red and green and lights and wreaths and garland and bows, the better. Christy Ford's approach couldn't be more different. With a family of five, three children under the age of 8, a pair of dogs, two small businesses and a house with "five homes worth of stuff" crammed under one roof, the Charlottesville resident's holiday decorating is decidedly understated. "I veer toward a more simple, organic...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Albemarle County police say an employee of an assisted-living community has been charged with selling jewelry taken from residents. The Daily Progress (http://bit.ly/1469OsZ) reports 51-year-old Wanda Sharell Cousins was charged with grand larceny and eight counts of selling stolen property from RoseWood Village at Hollymead. Albemarle County Police spokeswoman Carter Johnson says additional charges against Cousins are expected. Court records show Cousins had...

CHARLOTTESVILLE – Tom O'Brien was driving into the office for his first official day of work at Virginia on Jan. 3, exactly 31 years and one day after he began his initial tenure in Charlottesville, when the car radio delivered a premonition. Out of O'Brien's speakers came the voices of Jon Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles, their 2006 song, "Who Says You Can't go Home," the final confirmation that he made the right decision to return to coaching. "When you're used to 38 years of working 24-7, 365...

When: Saturday, 6 p.m. Where: Charlottesville Online: ESPN 360

When: 7:30 p.m. Where: John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville. TV: Comcast SportsNet.

When: 3:30 p.m. TV: WJLA-7, WMAR-2. Where: Scott Stadium, Charlottesville.

Helen Dragas was under fire. As rector of the governing board at the University of Virginia, she had led a secretive effort to force the resignation of the institution's popular president . By mid-June, the Charlottesville campus was demanding answers. Then a lonely voice of support emerged, saying it was time for a revolution. Paul Tudor Jones II, a billionaire hedge fund titan and U-Va. alumnus, had been acquainted with Dragas for about a month, according to associates of Jones's who spoke on the condition that they not be named.

He comes to St. Louis from Charlottesville with a sterling reputation. The Rams need him to live up to expectations and his big-bonus contract.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Three Charlottesville residents were charged Tuesday with selling fake IDs to thousands of college students across the country. After a search of a home near the University of Virginia, federal authorities charged the three with mail fraud, wire fraud, and fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents. The defendants are Kelly Erin McPhee and Alan McNeil Jones, both 31, and Mark G. Bernardo, whose age was unavailable. Records at U.S....

After reading Karen Craft's March 9 letter about horoscopes [" Accurately reading the stars ," Free for All], all I could think of was my abbreviated knowledge of Shakespeare: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. " Carl Briggs , Charlottesville

Agnes W. Justice, 102, a librarian in Arlington County Public Schools from 1956 to 1971, died Feb. 26 at a senior living facility in Charlottesville. Her death, from cardiopulmonary arrest, was confirmed by her daughter Caroline Dessouky. Mrs. Justice worked at schools including Cherrydale Elementary, Maury Elementary and Page Elementary. Agnes Estelle Wren was born in Wrens, Ga. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala., in 1933 and a second bachelor's degree, in library science, from...

CHARLOTTESVILLE – They came on a Friday and Virginia Coach Mike London decided to go ahead with a calculated risk on Sunday. For weeks, he and his remaining assistant coaches had been doing damage control, barnstorming the region to assure prospective recruits that all was well in Charlottesville after Virginia decided to fire four of his assistant coaches following the program's second 4-8 season in three years. As London put it, "when there's change like that, there's always the human element...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — In the future, when he thinks about Tuesday night, freshman Mike Tobey will likely remember it as the moment he was fully embraced by the Virginia faithful. Twice, the student section at John Paul Jones Arena chanted "To-bey, To-bey," after the forward's inspired play ignited his team and the home crowd when both needed it most. But moments after Virginia came away with a 58-55 upset over No. 19 North Carolina State , Tobey wasn't ready to forget the "nerve-racking"...

L iver and oatmeal might not sound like a compelling case for plugging Charlottesville into your GPS, but in the hands of the chef at Glass Haus Kitchen, a beguiling new restaurant in the city's Warehouse District, the combination of foie gras and toasted steel-cut grain is (trust me on this) magic. The blend is a grace note in a main-course guinea hen, whose juices are used to cook the oats and give them more spunk. Diced pickled pumpkin and sour orange complete the winter wonder.

CHARLOTTESVILLE – Tom O'Brien was driving into the office for his first official day of work at Virginia on Jan. 3, exactly 31 years and one day after he began his initial tenure in Charlottesville, when the car radio delivered a premonition. Out of O'Brien's speakers came the voices of Jon Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles, their 2006 song, "Who Says You Can't go Home," the final confirmation that he made the right decision to return to coaching. "When you're used to 38 years of working 24-7, 365...

In Clay Bennett's " Election Night " cartoon, there is only one person not working.  So who are the "makers" and who is the "taker"? Cyndy Martin , Charlottesville