The Charlottesville Newsplex reported roughly 10 minutes ago that local police responded to reports of a robbery at the BB&T bank on Statefarm Boulevard, on Pantops Mountain. The Newsplex site adds that the wooded area around BB&T is being searched.

This news comes three days after another bank robbery was reported, at the Wachovia Bank located near Martha Jefferson Hospital. The suspect in the Wachovia robbery is described as a 6' white male in his 20s or 30s; he wore jeans, a black-and-red cap and a white t-shirt, and traveled on foot.

A map of the area around the Pantops BB&T bank is below.

John and Tussi Kluge have donated $3 million to the University of Virginia Health System to support its end-of-life care.

According to UVA Today, the gift supports the creation of an endowed professorship in the School of Nursing and it also support a current professor in the school.

In the past, John Kluge and the John W. Kluge Foundation have also donated to the Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center and the John W. Kluge Professorship in Urology, among others.
 

John and Tussi Kluge have donated $3 million to the UVA Health System to support its end-of-life care.

(Photo courtesy of UVA)

The parents of missing VT student Morgan Harrington were in town yesterday to deliver their daughter’s dental records to the state police.

The Newsplex reports that Dan and Gil Harrington put posters of their daughter and painted the family symbol on the Copeley Road bridge, near the John Paul Jones Arena where Harrington was attending a Metallica concert on Saturday, October 17.

According to the report, Harrington’s parents believe she was abducted and accomplices are involved.

For clues leading to Harrington’s return, the family has put up a $100,000 reward. The band Metallica has added $50,000.