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Hank Aaron, skeptic’s mea culpa, vaccine campouts: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY Alabama Birmingham: The mayors of at least three Alabama cities, including heavily populated Birmingham, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 as the illness spreads rapidly across the state following the holidays. The city of Birmingham said Mayor Randall Woodfin was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia Monday, five days after announcing h...

Photo: WINA CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – City Council will meet in a closed emergency session at 11am with some of the stated objectives to talk about the City Manager search — but also an unusually stated item saying “for discussion or consideration of the performance of one or more City Councilors”. This happening after Councilor Lloyd Snook posted on his City Councilor Facebook page where he, at length, criticized the Daily Progress report on the reported pause of the City Manager searc...

A 1985 story in The Daily Progress helped lead Kostas Alibertis to turn his dedication to caring for others down a path to benefit the whole community. While attending the University of Virginia, Alibertis took an EMT course for general knowledge. A 1985 Progress story said the Western Albemarle Rescue Squad was looking for more help over the summer, and he decided to volunteer. “I came out here and embraced it, and it became a passion and a love,” he said. “Doing community servi...

Daily Progress The number of COVID-19 patients being treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center is increasing as more area residents catch the virus, but hospital officials say they are not being overwhelmed. Officials on Wednesday said that they have a lot of flexibility remaining at the hospital in terms of bed space and can move staff around as needed to treat those who contract the disease. The hospital is currently treating regular medical and emergency patients as well as those ...

W. Nathaniel Howell, the Charlottesville resident and U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait whose defiance of Saddam Hussein’s order to close the embassy after Iraq’s 1990 invasion led to the first Gulf War, was laid to rest in Albemarle County on Wednesday. Howell, 81, died on Dec. 17. He grew up in Portsmouth, received a doctorate in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia in 1965 and joined the U.S. Foreign Service. He served in several locations, including Washington, D...

Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney part of interview forum for Dallas Police job Charlottesville Police Chief RaShall Brackney part of interview forum for Dallas Police job By Max Marcilla | December 16, 2020 at 10:55 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 11:51 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Charlottesville may soon have to find its fourth police chief in five years. That’s if current Chief RaShall Brackney gets selected for a new role halfway across the country, which she interv...

By LUANNE RIFE The Roanoke Times Nurses and doctors who care for Virginia’s critically ill and dying COVID-19 patients told Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., on Monday that they support his efforts to bring mental health reform to the nation’s health care workforce. Kaine invited them to a Zoom meeting before heading into a week of congressional negotiations to push for passage of both a COVID-19 relief bill and passage of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. Bree...

Decades after Jackson P. Burley High School shut its doors, the school’s alumni continue to tell their stories to keep the memory of the once all-Black high school alive, and they want to work with students at the school, which became Jackson P. Burley Middle School in 1974, in that effort. “I wish the history of this school would be taught to students in a class, so the kids would understand what we went through, what our parents went through and show them the difference between what...

After nearly six years at the helm of area transit provider Jaunt, Brad Sheffield has resigned from his position, effective Monday. COO Karen Davis has been appointed interim CEO by the Board of Directors, which will start an executive search process to hire a new head for the corporation. Sheffield’s resignation is the latest shakeup among area transit providers. Last year, Garland Williams took over as the director of Charlottesville Area Transit. During his six years, Sheffield led a se...