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The City of Charlottesville announces it will start collecting fallen autumn leaves residents rake to their curbs October 27.

Organizers estimated close to 10,000 people showed up for the second such protest in Charlottesville.

 University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have found lack of development of a particular molecule essential for central nervous system development and function could cause faulty brain circuits seen in Down syndrome individuals.

UVA became the fifth school to decline to sign the document.

A crowd starting at around 200 grew to around 300 during a “Reject the Compact Rally” on the Lawn at UVA.

Repairs of the collapsed Fray Road, the roadway that connects the Advance Mills Village neighborhood to the rest of the county, have been completed faster and less expensively than originally expected.

Investigators have determined the August home explosion in Glenmore that killed one person and critically injured another was caused by a lightning strike that hit a gas line days before the blast.

Jim Dillenbeck is running against incumbent Leslie Pryor in the Rio District, marking the only contested school board race in the county this year.

The event gets underway at noon.

It’s way early in a 2026 Congressional campaign, but one of the Democrats hoping to get the nomination for the 5th District Congressional seat is “excited” to have outraised Republican incumbent John McGuire in 3rd-quarter fundraising.