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Campaign pain

When Joe Biden announced last year that he was running for president, the first words he uttered were...

‘Screaming for help’

For Tay Washington, August 12, 2017, started off as a normal day. She ran some errands, and then stopped to see a...

Reporting back

Nearly two years after plowing his car into a group of counterprotesters at the Unite the Right rally—killing Heather...

Life plus 419 years

After a four-hour hearing July 15 in the cramped room temporarily housing Charlottesville Circuit Court, a judge...

Plea denied

James Alex Fields Jr. sat before the judge, his thick, black hair grown just long enough to touch the collar of his...

In brief

Funding cut loose Long-on-the-books redevelopment plans for Friendship Court, Southwood Mobile Home Park, and...

‘It’s a relief

Some victims of the August 12, 2017, car attack are breathing a sigh of relief that they won’t have to endure a...

In brief

Awkward moments: Fields trial edition When we crammed more than two weeks of trial proceedings into a 4,000-word...

Day 11

Many thought James Fields’ mental health would be used as a defense during his murder trial– but surprisingly, it...

Day 10: Guilty on all charges

A jury deliberated seven hours December 7 before reaching a verdict in the first-degree murder trial of...