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Charlottesville, Virginia : The Dogs & Cats Around Town are back! For the second year in a row, a dozen dog and cat statues, lovingly decorated by local artists, are gracing the storefronts of local retail locations, all to benefit the animals at the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA.

Police say the person in threat after an alert email was sent out to parents in Albemarle County is not a threat.

Mark Weiner is accused of picking up a woman at the Lucky 7 in downtown Charlottesville, then taking her to an abandoned house in Albemarle County.

On this day in 1607, Christopher Newport and a small company of men began exploring the upper reaches of the James River , where they were feasted by the Indian weroance Ashuaquid.

The hotel is scheduled for completion in April 2014. It will have 149 studio and one-bedroom suites, all with living areas and full kitchens.

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Virginia seeks creative and energetic applicants for a tenure-track faculty position.

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A group of professional young performers is touring the country to raise money for charity, and they're making a stop in Charlottesville.

For the third season, L'etoile on West Main Street is asking for the stuff in your garden.

There is new headway in the fight to cure brain cancer and it comes from the University of Virginia.

On Wednesday, four voting machine manufacturers came to the Charlottesville area to demonstrate their products for city and county officials from all over Central Virginia.

The Albemarle County Sheriff's Office is working to make sure gun accidents, like the one that claimed the life of a 10-year-old girl in Crozet, don't happen.

A he said, she said case is unfolding in Albemarle County Circuit Court. The trial continues for a man charged with abducting a 20-year-old and taking her to an abandoned house.

Del. Rob Bell is a former prosecutor who has represented the Charlottesville area in the House of Delegates since 2002, although he notes that he is a Northern Virginia native, growing up in Springfield.

A traffic alert for drivers who travel on Meade Avenue - the street closed Tuesday at the intersection with Carlton Road while crews put in a new railroad crossing.

Even in Charlottesville, considered one of the most liberal cities in Virginia, blacks and whites had to fight to be seen not only equal as late as the 1970s and beyond.

It released its 'Charlottesville Works' project Monday. It stems from the 2011 "Orange Dot Project" report that found 27 percent of people in the city are living in poverty.

Bicyclists in Staunton are petitioning City Council to make the streets safer for bikes.

We were stoked when we learned that the ladies arm-wrestling trend, which started big-time in Charlottesville, had made it to Richmond with the formation of the Richmond Arm Wrestling for Ladies .

Any time disaster occur, our nation comes together to help out neighbors in need.