CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — An avowed white supremacist was sentenced to life plus 419 years on state charges Monday for deliberately driving his car into anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia. James Alex Fields Jr., 22, received the ...

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Welcome to Monday. Here are some news items to start your week. Heather D. Heyer, 32, who was killed while protesting white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, was a paralegal in the bankruptcy division at the Miller Law Group. ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Roman Catholic priest has testified that a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is a spiritual person who displayed no anger or aggression in his presence. The Rev. Joseph Scordo testified ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Lawyers for a former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend are seeking a new venue for the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit against him. Media outlets report that George Huguely’s lawyers filed a ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend is appealing his conviction. Attorneys for George W. Huguely V filed a motion Friday in Charlottesville Circuit Court asking that his second-degree murder conviction be ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted in the beating death of his ex-girlfriend is scheduled to learn his sentencing date. Attorneys for George Huguely V are to appear in Charlottesville Circuit Court on Monday for ...

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Two local firms have won design kudos in the Wood Works Wood Design Awards. Ayers Saint Gross Inc. recently won the commercial wood design category for the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center in Charlottesville, Va. The design ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A businessman convicted in a cigarette smuggling case has agreed to pay restitution totaling more than $5 million to Virginia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and New York City. U.S. Attorney Timothy Heaphy says 50-year-old Vijay N. Patel ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — In a trial that revealed the lives of elite athletes at a top-notch school, a former University of Virginia lacrosse player faces 26 years in prison for the beating death of his former girlfriend amid a swirl of ...

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors in the murder trial of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player deliberated for hours Wednesday whether he battered his ex-girlfriend to death in a drunken, jealous rage or if his intent to talk with her ...

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