Albemarle County News

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.

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Republicans arriving at the party's Albemarle County headquarters this morning discovered what appears to be an Election Day dirty trick.

Philanthropist and vintner Patricia Kluge has put her 24,000-square-foot Albemarle County house and 300 acres on the market.

The new Advance Mills bridge should be open to traffic by the end of the year, the Virginia Department of Transportation announced Monday.

A blaze demolished an Albemarle County home late Friday night, but firefighters brought it under control before it spread to nearby houses.

An English baron and noted director of such TV shows as "The Avengers," "The Saint," "Hawaii Five-0," "Magnum, P.I.," and "Airwolf," has been arrested and charged with felony larceny in Greene County, officials say.

Republican Duane Snow, a candidate for the Samuel Miller seat on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, is calling for the Planning Commission to end its discussion of raising a variety of zoning fees, including those on home businesses.

A man and woman from Albemarle County are recovering from their injuries after being shot in a car Thursday night.It happened at the Blue Ridge Commons Apartments off Prospect Avenue.

Scary moments Sunday for a couple boaters, after their boat capsized on the James River in Rockbridge County, leaving them stranded them on a rock.

There have been three deaths in less than a week along the Monacan Trail portion of Route 29, and police believe the tragedies could have been avoided.

The First Lady of Virginia stopped in Albemarle County Tuesday to throw her support behind House of Delegates candidate Cynthia Neff.

Hydraulic Road is a popular throughway for many drivers but along the road and at different intersections, it's also a path home for many students in Albemarle County.

A fatal accident closed Route 29 South in Southern Albemarle County for three and a half hours this evening.

Investigators with State Police, the Albemarle County Sheriff's Office, and the Greene County Sheriff's Office are back on the campus of the University of Virginia Thursday afternoon, in connection with the missing Virginia Tech student case.. Officers and deputies are searching the ground near University Hall, where Morgan Harrington was last ...

Browse> Home / News / Auto Accident @ Crossroads On 29 Leaves One Dead : 10.22.09 We have very few details tonight, but have learned that an auto accident on Route U.S. 29 North at Plank Road in Albemarle County has left one person dead according to news and witness accounts.

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