The state has settled the $40 million lawsuit filed by University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly for $212,500, officials announced late Wednesday. Daly in March filed a 12-count complaint in Richmond Circuit Court against the state and seven Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents, alleging violations of her constitutional rights and excessive use of force by the plainclothes officers who surrounded her SUV outside of the Harris Teeter grocery store in the Barracks Road Shopping Center last spring. The agents mistook a crate of water one of Daly’s sorority sisters was carrying for...
Nicholas “Nick” Wall is proof that hard work does pay off. The 18-year-old who graduated from Andover High School this spring is one of only five men and women from Maine, New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts to earn an impressive full scholarship for the Naval Reserve Officer Training Course. He will begin embarking on the course this fall at the University of Virginia, one of the colleges around the country where the Navy offers the scholarship.
Eugene Monroe is right where he wants to be: anchoring the left side of the Baltimore Ravens offensive line. The Ravens hope he stays there a long time, as evidenced by the five-year, $37.5 million contract they gave him in March.
It was a tough break for Mississauga’s Brent Urban today who had to be carted off the field after suffering what’s believed to be a knee injury at the Baltimore Ravens’ training camp. Urban, 23, played his high school football with the Lorne Park Spartans before heading down to the United States to play for the University of Virginia Cavaliers. In May, he signed a four-year contract with the Ravens for $2.52 million.
The first four practice days of training camp presented a personal dilemma for Jets offensive lineman Oday Aboushi. A practicing Muslim, Aboushi dutifully observes Ramadan, the ninth month on the Islamic calendar, when adherents are required to refrain from eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset, though children, the elderly, pregnant women, and others who medically should not abstain from food or water are exempted.
A University of Virginia graduate has been on a mission in part of Africa and now, her work has led to trying make a big difference in the life of one little girl from Uganda. Kate Casaday has been working as a missionary in Uganda since 2011. Three years later, she’s bringing a little girl named Lily home with her, at least for a while.
Greg Merritt, a tireless journalist with an independent streak who became synonymous with area high school athletics during a 25-year run as sports editor of the Eastern Shore News, died on Wednesday morning after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Tuition jumped by 5.2 percent on average at public four-year colleges and universities and by 4.6 percent at community colleges, according to data released Wednesday by the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia. According to Kirsten Nelson, a spokeswoman for the state council, also known as SCHEV, tuition rose in part because universities did not have a clear picture of how much money they would receive from the state because of the General Assembly budget impasse.
Many elite public schools are top schools at a better price than their private counterparts. At No. 37, California has the top-placing state school in the U.S., University of California, Berkeley, and is followed by University of Virginia (No. 40), College of William & Mary (No. 41) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (No. 45).
Members of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors are considering a policy that would limit their own ability to speak freely about decisions the board makes, including when members disagree with those decisions.
A proposed Board of Visitors policy at the University of Virginia would muzzle dissenting board members. The Special Committee on Governance and Engagement met Wednesday afternoon in Richmond to review the four-page draft policy.
(Subscription required) New proposed rules for the university’s Board of Visitors would prevent its members from publicly opposing the board’s decisions after the fact, and would strongly discourage them from making records requests of the university, among other things. A committee of the board is slated to discuss the measures on Wednesday.
(Video) A 30-minute special on the Young African Leaders Initiative, President Obama’s flagship program to invest in the next generation of African leaders. This summer 500 fellows from Africa are in the United States studying public management, civic leadership and business and entrepreneurship in a six-week fellowship. (U.Va. mentions at 1:30 and 11:29.)
Monticello and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson's beloved Virginia home, set among the rolling hills of rural Virginia, is a much-loved tourist attraction and historical site.
The “national retreat” from marriage could worsen social divides between the married and unmarried, according to one scholar who says religious groups’ failure to reach the working class bears part of the blame for the plummeting marriage rates. “We have seen that Catholic and mainline Protestant churches have not been successful in reaching poor working class Americans and bringing them into the pews on a regular basis, particularly men,” William Bradford Wilcox, director of the University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project said.
At this point, most political prognosticators expect modest Republican gains, if there is any shift at all. The team at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics projects a slightly more bullish 5-8 seat pick-up for the GOP.
The impeachment talk “is something close to a no-lose proposition for the Democrats. They can raise money off of it AND make the GOP look extreme, which is strategy Nos. 1, 2, and 3 in the Democratic playbook,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics in an e-mail. “That said, I think Israel is being a bit overoptimistic in his hopes that this will really gin up [Democratic] turnout.”
They also learn bigger lessons. For example, camp participants learned how a vehicle is built correlates to the task at hand, such as building a vehicle that can travel the farthest, reach the highest speed or perform a task with precision, said Renee Manson, 25, University of Virginia Law School student.
An online startup retailer founded by two University of Virginia graduates is growing with its first physical address in Charlottesville. Country Club Prep is open now on the Corner near UVA. It's the first brick-and-mortar store for a company that's getting national recognition.