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Equal protection

The City of Charlottesville recently came up with another theory on how to defend itself in the lawsuit over its...

Update

Following a March 22 hearing in U.S. District Court, the County of Culpeper and the U.S. Department of Justice agreed...

Day 11

After 11 days of evidence, plaintiff Nicole Eramo rested her case against Rolling Stone October 28– but not before...

Day 10

The final Thursday witness for the plaintiff in the $7.5 million libel trial against Rolling Stone was Sara Surface....

Day 8

For a second day, former Rolling Stone fact-checker Elisabeth Garber-Paul took the stand to explain why she believed...

Bad memory

If “yes, to my great regret” has become the stock answer for remorseful Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely,...

Day 5

Former Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely put in a third day on the stand Friday, a day spent answering...

Day 4

“I found her to be very credible,” said the reporter on the podcast. “I put her story through the wringer.” This...

Day 2

It was a courtroom with tears shed on both sides of the aisle. The defamation trial pitting former University of...

‘Psychic’ pleads guilty in $2 million scheme

A Charlottesville woman who billed herself as a psychic has seen something about her own future: up to 40 years in...