They are a small society, bound by tragedy.When a child goes missing, few people can fathom the awful wait, the filling in of blanks, the nightmares. There aren’t many who can relate to the horror that Hannah Graham’s family is living now.The Harringtons can, and they reached out to offer companionship — if not comfort, because there is no such thing as comfort here — to the parents of the 18-year-old University of Virginia sophomore who vanished Sept. 13.
A man linked by DNA to slain Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was driving a cab the night she disappeared and the taxi was recovered two weeks ago at an Albemarle County farm, according to a broadcast report.WTVR Channel 6 in Richmond, citing unnamed sources, also reported that Jesse L. Matthew Jr., charged with the abduction last month in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, 18, was driving a taxi the night Harrington vanished.The Daily Progress, meantime, reported that a cab company owner said he was told by a detective in 2009 that Harrington, 20, ...
... Two of Matthew's former taxi co-workers have told federal and state authorities Matthew was working the night Harrington disappeared. We have learned that authorities have recovered the taxi cab Matthew was driving. It was found two weeks ago on a farm.We learned that authorities interviewed Matthew in 2009, following Harrington's disappearance, along with dozens of other cab drivers working on October 17. Virginia State Police say they did not interview Matthew.We also know at least 20 people involved in Charlottesville area cab businesses have been interviewed by federal and stat...
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story reported that police interviewed Jesse Matthew as part of the Morgan Harrington investigation in 2009. The Virginia State Police say in a statement, "Jesse L. Matthew Jr. was never interviewed in 2009 by state police in connection with the Morgan Harrington investigation." Charlottesville police say Matthew was interviewed earlier that year about a separate case, but was never questioned in connection with the Harrington case.
A Charlottesville taxi company owner said Thursday that investigators have questioned 20 drivers since Hannah Graham went missing, and a detective told him in 2009 that Morgan Harrington last was seen climbing into a cab.
...Career cab Driver Melvin Carter, who knew Matthew, said he reached out to investigators five years ago after being questioned about local cab companies.“Everything is starting to add up everything is starting to add up,” Carter said. “I asked which taxi cab she got into they said, ‘Yes, she did jump into a taxi cab that night before last being seen alive.'”Sources also confirmed that the cab that Matthew drove in 2009 was seized by authorities from a farm two weeks ago as part of their active investigation.“He could have made an impres...
Police recently seized a cab owned by Jesse Matthew, the last person seen with missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and who also has been linked to another college student's death in 2009, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
It's been almost a month since the chilling surveillance videos of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham showed the 18-year-old's last known whereabouts.As her parents plead for information about their missing daughter, others who knew the athletic young woman with razor-sharp wit are grappling with her disappearance."She is a really nice girl," says Danielle McHugh, who played on the softball team at West Potomac High in Alexandria, Virginia, with Graham. "You would always see her reading a book or studying at softball practice."At vigils held in Ale...
Thursday marks the 26th day since the search began for missing University of Virginia 2nd-year student Hannah Elizabeth Graham.Crews have covered nearly 90 percent of the focus area for the search with no trace of Graham, but officials say there is reason to remain hopeful.
Hampton police and fire crews will be assisting Charlottesville police in the search for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.Hampton will send 16 police officers and nine firefighters to Charlottesville who will leave at 1 p.m. Friday and participate in the search for two days, according to a news release from the Hampton Police Division.Those participaring in the search efforts include members of Hampton Police Dive Team, as well as responders working with bloodhounds from the Hampton K-9 Unit, ATVs for additional search capabilities...
Virginia police would like to talk to some Louisville football fans about a college student missing nearly one month.On Sept. 12, UofL was in Charlottesville to face the University of Virginia in a football game. That day was also the day Hannah Graham, 18, a UVA student, went missing.Any UofL fans who might have been in the downtown Charlottesville area and saw out of the ordinary are asked to call Charlottesville police.
RICHMOND, Va. — Don’t feel bad if your don’t recognize Joy Schultz’s name or her face. She not young – she’s 51 – and she’s not a photogenic co-ed at a state university. She wasn’t busy on social media and there’s no surveillance video of her shortly before she disappeared. ...Meanwhile, most of us know all about another missing person’s case that started six days after Joy’s, in nearby Charlottesville.Vast search crews, even drones, have been combing the area for University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham, 18. Intense...
... All this speaking means the president hasn't been doing a lot of campaigning for Democrats in close red state races. “When you look at the approval ratings for President Obama in most of these states, he’s in the low 30s,” says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Sabato says the president is helping Democrats more by staying out of sight and raising big money. Who still loves him? The party’s base.
By Marcia Invernizzi, Henderson Professor of Reading Education and executive director of the McGuffey Reading Center in the Curry School...Drilling kindergartners with high frequency words on flashcards is unlikely to support the development of their sight word vocabulary. In fact, it’s likely to do more harm than good.A better approach would be to engage children in the kinds of purposeful activities that lead to a concept of word in text, a prerequisite for learning and retaining sight words. A concept of word in text is the ability to finger point accurately to multiple lines of text ...
The Supreme Court has made an historic decision to decline to review Virginia’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Bostic v Schaefer. ... The University of Virginia law professor, Kim Forde-Mazrui, has remarked that it is very interesting to note that many of the most important cases that have advanced civil rights involve the Supreme Court invalidating Virginia law.
Andrew N. Vollmer writes: Unduly broad requests by the SEC for electronic documents slow the production process, extend investigations, and significantly increase the associated costs. Without sacrificing enforcement goals, the staff of the Division of Enforcement could use more specifically tailored document requests, which would allow the agency to allocate its resources more efficiently, reduce costs for recipients of the requests, and treat those recipients more fairly.
Attorneys for the FBI are in court this morning defending a challenge that the “gag order” that comes with the thousands of national security letters the agency sends out each year, is a constitutional violation of free speech rights.Guests: ... Robert Turner, Associate Director, Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law
The Senior Statesmen of Virginia group wants to make sure people have all the information they need to vote in November.The nonprofit group hosted a presentation Wednesday at the Charlottesville Senior Center outlining the upcoming U.S. Senate and House races. At the presentation, University of Virginia Center for Politics' Geoff Skelley talked about political issues and predictions from Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball.
WINCHESTER -- Larry Sabato, the highly visible political pundit from the University of Virginia, brought a mixed message Wednesday for Democrats and Republicans pondering elections in 2014 and beyond.Republicans could take heart from Sabato's agreement with most other political soothsayers that the GOP will solidify its hold on the House of Representatives and has a good chance of wresting control of the Senate from Democrats.
Meanwhile Republicans are scrambling to save a state they once thought was securely in the bag."A year ago, I would have had you committed if you had told me that Republicans would have had such severe problems in Kansas and South Dakota that they wouldn't take the Senate," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.Sabato said D.C. Republicans are blaming Rounds for running a lackluster campaign.