“We reached that point that the Commonwealth felt we had probable cause to seek an arrest warrant,” Longo said.“Probable cause is a pretty easy burden to meet,” said CBS 6 Legal Analyst Todd Stone, “it doesn’t take much.The public shouldn’t assume investigators have obtained irrefutable forensic DNA evidence to get Matthew convicted on this charge, according to Stone.“There needs to be some evidence,” Stone said. “It’s not at the level needed to prove guilt, but it could be something as simple as some of her cloth...
Waynesboro police have been dispatched to several calls this week identifying a possible sighting of Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr., the Charlottesville man believed to be last person seen with missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham.None of the possible sightings have proved to be positive, police said.
By Christie Boyden, a 2011 graduate of Stone Bridge High School and a senior at the University of Virginia.On Monday night, we made a pact. As we watched the press conference, saw surveillance video from the downtown mall and received emails from our chief of University Police, my three roommates and I vowed to never walk home alone again.
Thomas Platts-Mills, a noted tick-bite researcher at the University of Virginia, and his colleagues are working to determine why certain individuals who have been bitten by ticks and treated for Lyme disease develop an allergic reaction to beef and pork that can cause an anaphylactic reaction necessitating emergency treatment. Researchers are finding that many viruses can affect one’s DNA post-infection.
Geoffrey Skelley, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said the Wisconsin race has attracted a lot of attention nationally.He said the Republican base is eager to protect Governor Scott Walker and the legacy he's begun to establish in Wisconsin. Skelley also said Democrats are eager to remove Walker from office, and national Democrats believe Burke has a very good chance to do so.Skelley, who monitors the national political landscape as the associate editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, said he wouldn't be surprised to see other big name politicians ...
Powers' own struggle in keeping UT's flagship university on the teaching and research track - while keeping his job - is a micro-study of the argument taking place in colleges and universities across the nation.At its core is the question: Should public universities groom students for the workforce, shifting resources and focus to the majors that translate most immediately to in-demand jobs? Or should they focus on creating an environment that fosters innovative and thoughtful students in the long-term, even at the expense of an immediate return?"This is a moment when we're ha...
Warner said too many young people are leaving college with so much student debt that they're not willing to take financial risk with new ventures. He has noted that total student debt across the U.S. is now greater than total credit card debt.Virginia Beach developer Helen Dragas, a member of the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors, praised Warner for focusing on the debt issue."In my opinion, the reason there is so much debt is because the cost of higher education has escalated so much... must faster than inflation and faster than Virginians' incomes," she said.Sh...
It got underway one hundred years ago. (Although the U-S wouldn’t join in until almost 3 years later.) Our question -- are there lessons from World War I that are relevant in today’s universe? And if there are, what might those lessons be?Guests:Edward Lengel, Ph.D. - Author of the Washington Post Op/Ed "Why Didn't We Listen to Their War Stories?". Author of the books “World War I Memories”; “To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918,”; and the forthcoming “Thunder And Flames: Americans in the Crucible of ...
The Furious Flower Poetry Conference is a much-anticipated gathering of poets and scholars. It features readings by many of the best established and emerging African American poets writing today. The 2014 conference begins Wednesday, Sept. 24. ... Furious Flower 2014 is dedicated to Rita Dove, professor of English at the University of Virginia and poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995.
“It’s been clear for some time that Google sees nothing as being beyond its domain,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian at the University of Virginia and author of the 2011 book The Googlization of Everything. “Everything is subject to being organised or distilled or analysed, assessed and presented by Google’s algorithms. It became the operating system of the web, then of our mobile devices; now it would like to be the operating system of your eyeglasses and your automobile. It has a prediction it wants to fulfil: that data will flow through ...
Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and legal scholars [including Leslie Kendrick] previewed the 2014-2015 Supreme Court term.
"I expect that Gillespie is going to continue attacking Warner for having voted with President Obama 97% of the time,” said Geoffrey Skelley with the Center Politics. “There's context to that that goes unsaid, but it's trying to drive home the point that Warner is tied to Obama and Gillespie is hoping that Obama isn't popular enough that making that connection will help him out with voters. On the other side, I expect you'll see Warner attacking Gillespie for his time as a lobbyist, for his time working with the Bush Administration. Even bringing up George W. B...
People who have a heart attack while traveling abroad may be able to safely fly home on a regular commercial flight, according to a new study published in the Air Medical Journal."There is very little useful information in the literature, to guide recommendations for helping patients and family members who have a medical problem abroad and then ask when it is safe to come home," Dr. William Brady, the study’s senior author, told Reuters Health."Patients with an uncomplicated heart attack were usually able to make it home in about 10 days, flying on a regular commercial air...
According to the University of Virginia Center for Politics data from last year's elections, 79 percent of people in Charlottesville were registered to vote but only 39 percent showed up at the polls.
According to the Bosios, it not only fills a need in the church — to support married couples — but it also responds to data from a recent survey, which says couples who spend time together have more stable marriages.John Bosio cites the 2012 survey “The Date Night Opportunity” — from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville — which notes how date nights (without a spiritual emphasis) are taking part in cities and communities across the country and are having positive results.The study said that by merely spending time to...
The amount of time between heartbeats can vary even at a "constant" heart rate-and that variability, doctors have found, is a good thing.Reduced heart rate variability (HRV) has been found to be predictive of a number of illnesses, such as congestive heart failure and inflammation. For athletes, a drop in HRV has also been linked to fatigue and overtraining. However, the underlying physiological mechanisms that control HRV-and exactly why this variation is important for good health-are still a bit of a mystery.By combining heart rate data from real athletes with a branch of mathemati...
Using the molecularly targeted drug ibrutinib (Imbruvica) together with the investigational anticancer agent ABT-199 may improve outcomes for patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to preclinical data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research special conference, Hematologic Malignancies: Translating Discoveries to Novel Therapies, held Sept. 20-23."Ibrutinib was recently approved by the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] for the treatment of both mantle cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia," said Micha...
One of eight babies in this country is born prematurely. Some will be under intensive care for months, while worried parents wait and wonder how their newborn is doing. At the University of Virginia’s Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit, nurses are trying something new to ease the anxiety of families and build trust with the medical team.
In the second part of his extensive commentary, Robert F. Turner from the University of Virginia looks at issues of policy and international law in his analysis of executive power, the Constitution and intervention against the “Islamic State.”