Left inside the car were cigarette butts, a police detective’s business card, emptied energy drink containers and a yellow envelope bearing a handwritten message referring to “tools to release God’s power.”None of those items, police said Wednesday, provides further clues into the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham or the case against Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., the man accused of abducting her.... Meanwhile, in the Charlottesville area, 50 officers fanned out Wednesday, covering more ground in the 8-mile radius that has been the ...
In light of second year student Hannah Graham's disappearance, the University of Virginia launched a safety committee with the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.The three entities: UVA, Charlottesville and Albemarle County will conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of the area around UVA grounds. They say it's an effort to better the safety of students and city residents alike.
Searchers on horseback combed a huge farm north of Charlottesville on Wednesday looking for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. The terrain was too large and too difficult for searchers on foot- so investigators made the decision to bring in horses.
Police say they're learning more about Jesse Matthew's whereabouts, the key suspect in missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham's disappearance, between the time Hannah was last seen and the time people started searching for her the next day.Police haven't said what that new information is, but say it suggests that Graham is in Virginia and there's no reason to believe she ever left.
... Sharon Johnson, a retired computer programmer who lives in King George County, is among the many volunteers who have been searching for University of Virginia sophomore Hannah Graham, who has been missing since Sept. 13.She is the president of DOGS–East, a volunteer canine search-and-rescue organization based in the Fredericksburg area. The team conducts searches at the request of law enforcement agencies and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.Since joining the group in 1985, Johnson said, she’s participated in about 400 searches in six states.And she estimates tha...
RICHMOND, Virginia — Analysts reviewed aerial images while about three dozen searchers looked for any trace of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.Dawn Eischen of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management says six employees of defense and security giant BAE Systems were examining the aerial images Wednesday. The images were taken over the weekend from an airplane provided by Woolpert, Inc., an engineering and design firm in Dayton, Ohio. Eischen says all of those corporate resources were donated.
Douglas Laycock, who teaches law at the University of Virginia and who filed an amicus brief in Hobby Lobby on behalf of the Christian Legal Society, represents Holt today. He opens his argument by noting that “40 other prison systems permit beards without a length limit, yet Arkansas prohibits even half an inch.”Justice Antonin Scalia, while not inclined to dispute prisoner Holt’s religious beliefs, questions his apparent reasonableness: “Mr. Laycock, the problem I have with your client’s claim of religious requirement is the religious requirement is to grow a fu...
An unusual convergence this year of tight races, likely runoffs, a surging independent candidate and a potential push for party switchers suggest that the 2014 battle for U.S. Senate control may continue weeks after Election Day."Any one of (these variables) could delay the outcome of the Senate for days, weeks, months maybe," said Kyle Kondik, with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
... Commission members include ... John Casteen, president of the University of Virginia and former Virginia secretary of education; ...Only two of the 10 members have no direct ties to political offices.Kelsey said it’s absurd to think politicians are going to reform Virginia’s broken ethics system.“How about an ethical reform panel that didn’t have former legislators and elected officials?” said Kelsey, “instead of asking those people to regulate themselves.”
The failure to confront the country's tumultuous history, and the turbulent and disappointing years following Duvalier's 1986 flight into exile aboard a U.S. military aircraft, have fueled nostalgia for the "order" and "stability" that he had imposed."People simply forget that this was the order of impunity and fear that sought to silence the nation," said Robert Fatton, a Haiti-born political science professor at the University of Virginia. "This is why, ultimately, the vast majority of the population fought against his regime and celebrated his depa...
Dan Ortiz, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia, said that other ninth circuit panels will have to follow the precedent set on Tuesday. “So all the federal district courts in other states in the ninth circuit will now presumably invalidate bans in other states as well,” Ortiz said.
Kyle Kondik, a political science professor at the University of Virginia, said Friday, "I don't think it's a shock that anything in the news will get politicized. Partisans on both sides so despise the other side that they'll blame the other team for just about anything."
According to Kyle Kondik the Managing Editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics third party candidates often do better in polls than they do on Election Day. “That said, third-party candidates can be an alternative in races that become nasty and feature two candidates who are not all that popular,” Kondik explained.
In an interview with The Daily Signal, Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Alaska’s “unique political culture” makes it ripe for seemingly random local issues to sway the race.“Alaska is a place where the default political allegiance is not quite as hardened, though it is pretty Republican,” Skelley said. “You also tend to see a little higher libertarian ethos. Alaskans think it’s important that they get investment from the federal government [for local issues] becaus...
Underemployment and unemployment are “leaving many young adults hesitant to tie the knot in the current economic climate,” said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “This retreat from marriage is obviously a drag on fertility, the single-family home market, and sectors such as household products and insurance, given that married families with children spend more on these types of products.”
It’s no secret that dating can be tricky to navigate. The many questions—Is it too soon to be intimate? Should we move in together?—are plentiful and often uncomfortable to talk about. And now findings from a new report by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia don’t help to ease the pressure: Your likelihood for a happy marriage may be tied to the decisions you make before tying the knot.
Today, Pattie Sellers is the engine behind Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women rankings and the 16th annual high-powered eponymous summit happening here this week.She is on a first-name basis with every female corporate powerhouse in the country and offers a blunt assessment of why more talented women are not at the top of the ladder. “I think Sheryl Sandberg is very right when she says that women do not lean in enough to their careers,” Sellers told me as her conference was getting underway. “Women just don’t take as many risks.”Sellers grew up in Allentown, P...
Media entrepreneur Eunice Omole shares lessons from her runner-up finish on ‘The Apprentice Africa’Don’t call it “networking.” Eunice Omole says she’s been able to successfully hopscotch from sales, private equity and investment banking to real estate and now, media, because she has connected with people. There’s a difference, she insists.“[‘Networking’] sounds like it’s a transaction,” she explains. “It doesn’t really describe what it means to build a relationship.” Omole says understanding this nua...
“We have data that shows new buyers for 2015 are getting younger, more diverse and more family-oriented,” said Valerie Camillo, the team’s chief marketing and revenue officer.Camillo, who has a master’s degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, was hired away from the National Basketball Association earlier this year to boost Nationals season attendance and revenue in general. Not surprisingly, she has targeted the season-ticket base, because everything from attendance to fan experience to revenue to how much the team can pay for players f...
Since she arrived as head of Girls Preparatory School in July, Dr. Autumn Graves has been quite busy, but not too busy to greet everyone. ... Dr. Graves’ arrival at the 108-year-old independent school in North Chattanooga comes following 20 years of passion and loyalty to her own educational ideals. ... Her first job after graduating from the University of Virginia in 1994 was at Mercersburg Academy in South Central Pennsylvania coordinating special programs and activities, serving as a boys’ dorm mom, assisting with the soccer team and teaching some U.S. history.