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1 week ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
AUGUSTA COUNTY, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The Augusta County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Valley Academy Regional Alternative School teacher’s aide with indecent liberties with a child. In December of 2024, an investigation was launched about inappropriate sexual relations after a referral from Child Protective Services (CPS).
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1 week ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (UVA Today) – What once seemed like the stuff of a dystopian novel is now a reality: Almost everything you do online is being tracked. Whether it’s advertising companies, government agencies or hackers, someone is paying attention to every like, follow and search. But there are ways to protect your personal information from bad actors, according to University of Virginia cybersecurity expert Chris Maurer.
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1 week ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
ROANOKE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The grant was slated to pay for energy-efficient housing, child-care center improvements and identifying safe locations for when natural disasters strike, among other projects. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has notified the University of Virginia that it is terminating a $19.9 million grant that would have funded eight Southwest Virginia projects.
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1 week ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (UVA Health) – An inexpensive, long-approved HIV drug can improve vision in patients with a blinding complication of diabetes more effectively and a much lower cost than many existing treatments, an initial clinical trial suggests. Further, the drug is taken orally, potentially offering patients an alternative to monthly injections directly into their eyes.
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2 weeks ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The house destroyed by fire in the 2100 block of Loring Circle on Monday, May 19, 2025, was the home of Albemarle Supervisor Ned Gallaway. Albemarle Fire Rescue has determined that the fire was accidental in nature, but the exact cause remains under investigation.
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2 weeks ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
HARRISONBURG, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Governor Glenn Youngkin announced more than $16.9 million in funding for the Virginia Workforce Housing Investment Program in Harrisonburg on May 21, 2025. The money will support workforce housing development in ten localities across the Commonwealth to create 740 workforce housing units. In total, the projects will leverage over $254 million in private investment.
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2 weeks ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
STAUNTON, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Virginia State Police have charged five teenagers who left the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton on Monday, May 19, 2025. The teens, with ages ranging from 14 to 17, were taken into custody within 40 minutes of leaving the facility with assistance from numerous area law enforcement agencies. The girl was charged with assault for biting a security guard, according to police. Two of the boys were charged with obstruction of justice.
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2 weeks ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
ROANOKE, VA (AP/Cardinal News) – Here are five new things that could make a difference in Virginia’s 2025 statewide and legislative elections. We’re expecting a new Roanoke College poll before the month ends, and that will give us some numerical sense of where Virginia’s governor’s race stands. However, we don’t need polls to tell us about some of the forces that are shaping the contest that will put a woman in the governor’s office for the first time in Virginia history.
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2 weeks ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (AP/The Hechinger Report) — “Remember, your listeners are from Mars,” teacher Susan Greenwood told one of her fifth graders at Brownsville Elementary one day earlier this year. “They know nothing about slavery, they know nothing about the Civil War.”Greenwood was circulating the classroom, giving pointed feedback on students’ writing for an assignment in her Virginia Studies class.
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2 weeks ago | 
cvillerightnow.com | Dori Zook
MADISON COUNTY, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Virginia State Police has identified the person who was killed in a five-car crash in Madison County on May 18, 2025. Masashi Kawasaki, 69, of Charlottesville, died while in transport to the hospital. He was a backseat passenger in the last vehicle in line at a red light. He was wearing a seatbelt. The crash occurred at 4:35 p.m. at the intersection of Route 29 (S Seminole Trail) and Route 230 (Wolftown-Hood Rd).
