Albemarle County News

Albemarle County police have arrested a man they said robbed the BB&T bank in Pantops on Friday.

Albemarle County Police have arrested and charged a person for robbing a bank on Pantops Mountain.

More than 50 postal workers from the Charlottesville region rallied alongside U.S. 29 on Sunday to protest the possible closure of the Albemarle County Airport Road mail processing center.

A Charlottesville police officer has been charged after crashing as he scrambled to get to a bank robbery.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for urban areas and small streams in Albemarle County and Charlottesville.

A family of four had to be rescued after their SUV was swept into a creek Thursday morning in Albemarle County.

There will be at least three new members of the Albemarle County Planning Commission when it convenes for the first time in early January.

The driver of a 1992 Honda Accord that overturned in May near an Albemarle County road has pleaded guilty to the involuntary manslaughter of one of his passengers and driving while under the influence.

Charlottesville detectives arrest three people in Albemarle County and seize $7,000 worth of cocaine in an undercover buy-bust operation on Friday, November 13th.

An Albemarle County jury awarded $5.25 million on Friday to the parents and sibling of a 16-year-old county girl who was killed in a car accident in 2008.

Greene County supervisors and Wal-Mart officials broke ground on what will be the new store in Ruckersville Friday, though the construction equipment will stay in park until the weather cooperates.

An over-turned car carrier has shut down Route 22 in Albemarle County. The wreck happened just north of the intersection with Route 250 in Shadwell.

For nearly ten years law enforcement across the country, including Albemarle County, have held what police call active shooter training.

Albemarle County is going deeper into the red. The budget is millions of dollars short and now the county says all long term projects are on hold, projects that some say are critical for the county to continue to grow.

Students at Crozet Elementary School will get swine flu shots Tuesday as the flow of the vaccine picks up after a long dry spell.

The zoning fees cover a range of applications and reviews, including zoning map amendments, applications for approval from the Architectural Review Board, and certain special use permits.

Gil Harrington, the mother of missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, speaks alongside her husband Dan, right, and Ed Smart, left, father of Elizabeth Smart, in Charlottesville.

Albemarle County firefighters are on the scene of a fire at the Abbington Crossing Apartments.

With Tuesday's election in the history books, one Republican candidate for Congress in 2010 isn't wasting time getting to know the 5th District.

Results and thoughts from yesterday's elections: 1. In Albemarle County, Duane Snow and Rodney Thomas both won.