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Albemarle County Police have a suspect in custody in a Sunday afternoon shooting in Crozet.

Foreshadowing it during October 9th’s AstraZeneca groundbreaking in Albemarle County, Governor Youngkin has announced Merck has begun construction on a $3-billion pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Rockingham County, bringing 600 jobs to the Elkton location.

Eliza Monroe Hay has spent 200 years in an unmarked French grave.

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

 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.

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.

Nearly two weeks after texts from the Democrats’ Attorney General candidate Jay Jones fantasizing about putting bullets in the head of a former Virginia House Speaker were revealed, he will face off against Republican incumbent Jason Miyares at the University of Richmond at 6pm Thursday night.

Several expressed oppositions during the public hearing.