The search continues for Hannah Graham, the 18 year-old University of Virginia student who disappeared last month. Drones are now flying over farm fields and woods where public tips suggest she might be found.Five years ago, Morgan Harrington, another young woman on campus for a rock concert, also went missing. Police maintain there may be a link between the two cases. Surveillance technology and social media led them to a suspect, Jesse "LJ" Matthew.
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a major test of religious freedom. At issue is a law enacted by Congress in 2000 to shore up the religious rights of prisoners. … Now Holt is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and one of the country's leading authorities on religious rights, professor Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia law school.
“Even if the Arkansas government prevails in saying, 'We have a compelling governmental interest in prison security,' they have to prove that this is the least restrictive means for furthering that interest," says Hannah Smith, senior counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Smith is representing Holt alongside University of Virginia School of Law professor Douglas Laycock.
"I feel like our community has become closer through this whole negative experience" said Kathryn Brodie, a UVA student.Some have even changed their everyday habits, like walking alone."I didn't really have an issue walking home, I knew I shouldn't, but I would at night. Now my housemates and I have been really on it. We give each other rides or find someone to walk with. I never walk alone anymore" said UVA student Dani Ashmun.
Congress approved arming moderate rebels in Syria to battle Islamic State militants. … University of Virginia law professor Ashley Deeks says, that exception allows the U.S. offensive against Islamic State insurgents.
The plot sounds like something plucked from today's headlines: foreign hostages, terrorism, presidential power and American diplomatic relations with the Middle East. … In Jefferson's time, European powers conceded to terrorism by paying annual tribute and ransom to groups like the Barbary pirates, according to Robert F. Turner, co-founder of the Center for National Security Law and professor of American Foreign Policy.
Charlottesville's police chief remains relentless in his mission to find missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.
Christina Smith was at work at Food Lion when she got the text she'd been hoping to get for 10 years. ... Richard Schragger, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, said the Supreme Court needs four votes to take a case.
Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. was the kind of guy who would bust your lip, then regretfully drive you to the hospital. A "cool individual" around other guys, but a bit too "touchy-feely" with the ladies, family friend Rod Brown says."He doesn't mean to be creepy; he's just a little off, just a little awkward," says Brown, who's known "LJ" for about 15 years. "If he gets around women, I've never seen it NOT be awkward."Authorities say Matthew's interactions with women went way beyond awkward.
Jesuit Father Gerald Fogarty teaches religion and history at the University of Virginia in the United States and is an expert on diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the United States.He was in Rome early October to attend a conference which focused on new archival evidence relating to Pope Pius XII. Father Fogarty who has recently checked out archives connected to this pontificate in the United States and across Europe was asked by Veronica Scarisbrick if he’d come across any significant information in the course of this research.
The Virginia Department of Emergency Management says its staff and resources are doubling over the weekend to try to find any trace of Hannah Graham.Graham, a University of Virginia student, hasn't been seen since September 13. Saturday, more than 100 trained searchers combed wooded areas in Albemarle County looking for her.All-terrain vehicle teams and canine trackers were out in the far western and eastern parts of the county. VDEM coordinators say a geographic information systems specialist from the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office is now involved to help analyze and organize ma...
Nine years after Caroline County sheriff’s deputies shined their flashlights on a newlywed interracial couple asleep in their home, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Virginia law that led to their arrest.It’s interesting, notes University of Virginia law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui, that “many of the important cases that advance civil rights do involve the Supreme Court invalidating Virginia law.”... The desegregation and Loving rulings are “bookends on the civil rights movements,” Forde-Mazrui said. (He also cites the 1996 ruling ending Virginia Militar...
"There's something of a revolt in these states against the status quo," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, the political forecasters at the University of Virginia. "One theory is that people are mad - if you look at the national polls, they don't like the way the country is going - and this is being expressed at the state level against the executive who's closest to home and on the ballot."
“Probably [an] outlier,” tweeted University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato shortly after the poll was released. “But if Grimes downs McConnell, biggest upset of ’14 ....”
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the Bluegrass Poll results either are an anomaly or the first sign of a Grimes trend.“You’ve got a lot of Kentuckians who say, ‘I don’t want a Democrat who’s going to back Obama but I’m sick and tired of McConnell,’ ” he said. “The question is: How does it balance out on Election Day?”
The south is changing, and not in Democrats' favor."These states have been transformed in party terms. They are deeply red and that includes Arkansas," said Larry Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "Bill Clinton can have an effect in a Democratic primary, but much less in a general election. He is doing his duty and building up chits, presumably for Hillary."Indeed, Clinton's visits appear to be as much about 2016 as they are about 2014.
"I'm sure (Rounds) didn't count on this," said Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center For Politics. "He planned to at least match or probably exceed his opponents, and now he's going to be clearly outspent unless there's an outside infusion (of pro-Rounds money)." ... Sabato said Weiland will be vulnerable to attacks that he's being hypocritical by bashing big money in general, but not when it's helping him.
The 3rd District race is currently listed as a toss-up, according to University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato's “Sabato's Crystal Ball.”
When Ted Burns was diagnosed with a potentially deadly form of cancer last year, he fought the disease with radiation, surgery, chemotherapy and Royals baseball. The University of Kansas Medical School graduate says the ripples from the team's success this year is helping him on his road to recovery."I was sidelined and unable to work, so I watched the Royals," he said.The lifelong Royals fan is a doctor at the University of Virginia.Too sick to work and too weak to even play with his three children or 10 nieces and nephews, Burns used Royals games to make it through th...
Culpeper’s 70-bed hospital has a new owner and a new name, effective immediately.The University of Virginia Medical Center recently went from partial owner of Culpeper Regional Hospital to its majority owner. With the ownership change, CRH will now be called U.Va. Culpeper Hospital.U.Va. announced the changes Monday, saying the agreement had received all necessary approvals.... As part of this latest agreement — making U.Va. the 100 percent owner of CRH — U.Va. will invest an additional $45 million in CRH over the next 10 years.