Tinsley News

City council has named Rev. Carl Tinsley, a 79-year-old minister and activist, as Roanoke's 2012 Citizen of the Year.

It has now been proven that if a child cannot read nor do math in the 70th percentile of the third grade the chances are overwhelming that child will never catch up and will likely fall through the cracks in our educational system.

One week after an Albemarle County woman was found shot to death on Prospect Avenue in Charlottesville, her family and friends are laying her to rest.

Local residents will pause today to honor Charlottesville's second homicide victim of 2012.