... A Newport News police spokesman said Tuesday there is "no indication" that Matthew is connected to the Sept. 7, 2003 disappearance of a Newport News woman, but added that the case is being reviewed by a special victims unit.Sophie May Rivera, 31, vanished after being last seen at her home. Newport News police said they have no record of Matthew in their reporting system.
The role played by Pius XII during World War II has often sparked controversy among historians. On Thursday October 2, an international conference by the title, ‘Pius XII and the Second World War: Assumptions and New Archival Evidence’, is taking place here in Rome. Organised by the ‘Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi’, it’s sponsored by the ‘Pave the Way Foundation’, the Knights of Columbus and the Vicariate of Rome.Veronica Scarisbrick speaks to one of the participants, Jesuit Father Gerald Fogarty, Professor of Religious...
One year after ObamaCare’s launch, the healthcare law’s fate largely rests in the hands of the states. ... Governors in both states have feared that a Medicaid expansion will eat away at their dwindling state budgets.“For the last eight to 10 years, there’s really been a lack of trust on both sides,” said Ray Scheppach, who served as executive director of the National Governor’s Association for nearly 30 years.“When I worked for governors, I would say it’s the federal government’s fault, but if I’m being realistic, it’s both,&rd...
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said these type of ads have become standard in Democratic campaigns this year. If its not ACA repeal, its GOP backing of a personhood amendment or backing of stricter controls on abortion, Sabato said."Democrats have to do everything possible to expand the gender gap in their direction. Control of the Senate is riding on whether women heavily support candidates such as Nunn," he said. "Republicans will carry men, as usual, and Democrats will win women, but the margins matter."
The Washington Post's "Election Lab" says that there's a 95 percent chance that Davis will win reelection. Stu Rothenberg of Roll Call said that "Ann Callis, a star recruit against Rep. Rodney Davis, has gone nowhere." Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia wrote that Davis had "ranked among the top Democratic targets in the country earlier in the cycle," but that he was moving the race from "Leans Republican to Likely Republican."
Elizabeth Garrett, the provost of the University of Southern California, will become the next president of Cornell University, the first woman to hold that position, Cornell announced on Tuesday.Ms. Garrett, 51, will succeed David J. Skorton, who had previously announced that he planned to step down at the end of June to lead the Smithsonian Institution....A graduate of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Virginia School of Law, Ms. Garrett has written extensively about democratic institutions and processes. She holds faculty appointments at U.S.C.’s law, public policy and b...
The University of Virginia has rewarded five-time ACC baseball coach of the year Brian O'Connor with a lucrative, seven-year contract extension that guarantees him at least $600,000 in 2014-15.
By Jeff Bergner, who teaches at the Batten School and has served in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government.... American presidents are not free to pursue their own agendas without regard to the challenges the nation and the world throws up to them. They need to rise to those challenges, and they will ultimately be judged by how well they do so. In the great scheme of things, the foreign policy challenges confronting President Obama are relatively minor compared with those that have confronted many other presidents.
... Luckily, no stores in the Charlottesville area were affected, but the threat of having your credit card information stolen is becoming more and more of a reality. "The bad guys out there are becoming more successful," said Brian Davis, UVa Director of Information Security, Policy and Access. "It used to be that people would try to break in to a system to get famous, hey I was able to do something no one was able to do, but now it's all about the money".
“The family is the core institution for child-rearing worldwide, and decades of research have shown that strong families promote positive child outcomes,” said Laura Lippman, co-director of the World Family Map and senior program director for education at Child Trends.The report, co-written by Lippman and W. Bradford Wilcox, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, found that “growing up with a single parent is especially common in sub-Saharan Africa, in Central and South America, and in several English-speaking Western countries.”One-fifth or ...
Parents may now wish for their kid to be un-cool in middle school. A new study from the University of Virginia and published in the journal Child Development found that kids that were considered to be “cool” in middle school were more likely to be worse off later in life. According to the study, which surveyed 184 seventh- and eighth-graders and then followed up with them 10 years later, the kids who were involved in minor delinquent behaviors or precocious romance and obsessed with physical appearance and social status were much worse off in adulthood than their less &l...
Students at the University of Virginia are taking safety into their own hands in response to Hannah Graham's disappearance. Students are rolling out a new program that relies on the old fashion buddy system called “Buddies on Call.”Graham was last seen on Charlottesville's downtown mall on September 13. Jesse Matthew has been charged with abduction with intent to defile in connection to the case. Graham's last text told friends she was lost at 1:20 that morning. Police won't say if anyone responded to her. Now, UVA students want to make sure their classmates al...
Nearly 200 years after its creation the central green of Thomas Jefferson's academical village still maintains its hold as the University of Virginia's centerpiece.Each October the American Planning Association designates 10 streets, 10 neighborhoods and 10 public places to its list of great locations all over the country.This year, UVa's lawn made the cut.
According to Jesse Matthew's attorney Jim Camblos, Matthew's first court appearance on the abduction with intent to defile charge in connection with the Hannah Graham case has been pushed back. Matthew was scheduled to appear in Charlottesville General District Court Thursday, October 2 on the charge he faces in connection to the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Graham was last seen on the Charlottesville downtown mall on Sept. 13. According to Camblos, that court date has been pushed back to December 4. Matthew is still scheduled to appear in A...
Search teams looking for Hannah Graham are focusing on areas in Albemarle County where they say Jesse Matthew has connections.Police are searching Route 20 north of Charlottesville Tuesday. They say Matthew has family and friends in that area and detailed knowledge of the terrain.
Search and rescue teams continued to look in farm and wooded areas on ATVs in various parts of Albemarle County on Tuesday, including the Key West neighborhood off of Route 20."We're working up into the farmlands and the woods and the mountains, mostly private property today and responding to any type of investigative leads," said Virginia Department of Emergency Management Search and Rescue Coordinator Mark Eggman.
Investigators with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office say they are revisiting the case of a 23-year-old Lynchburg woman who went missing in 2009 to look for any connection to Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr.Authorities have linked Matthew, 32, to three possible incidents of violence against women in the Central Virginia area spanning a period of more than a decade.“We’re just trying to rule [Matthew] out, and following up on this possibility just like any other lead,” said Capt. Billy Crowe of the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office.Cassandra Morton’s body was f...
Police say they are going back to square one in the Graham case by going back over information and reviewing surveillance. Police say they are desperately searching for more video surveillance that shows Matthew, Graham, or both of them together. They are not just looking for footage from cameras in the downtown Charlottesville area. Police can only track Matthew and Graham up to 1:40 a.m. on September 13 on the downtown mall in Charlottesville.Police say more than 3,000 tips have come in to help investigators but police still need to know where Matthew and Graham went from the downtown mall. ...