CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted four California men on conspiracy and rioting charges in connection with a torch-lit march and a rally of white nationalists in Virginia last year.

U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen’s office announced the indictment Wednesday. It came ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia’s endowment has increased by nearly $1 billion during the past fiscal year.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Every day when Fiza Youivis hears Lisa Black knock on the door, she shouts, “I’m ready for school!”

Recently, Black entered Fiza’s hospital room at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital with a stack of books, worksheets and a fat yellow pencil. She ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia has approved a funding boost to help pay for a new memorial honoring the contributions of slaves who helped build and maintain the school.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A documentary about a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year will premiere at the Virginia Film Festival in November.

Martin Luther King III — the oldest son of the late civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — is among ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former federal prosecutor who led an independent review critical of the response to the 2017 deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, will become the University of Virginia’s top lawyer.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Civil rights activist, author and politician Julian Bond spent the last 20 years of his career teaching at the University of Virginia.

The school possesses copies of many of his papers, speeches and other works in its special collections archives. Up until now, ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A jury in Atlanta has convicted a Nigerian man on federal charges related to hacking universities.

Prosecutors said in a news release Monday that 34-year-old Olayinka Olaniyi and co-defendant 29-year-old Damilola Solomon Ibiwoye ran several phishing scams targeting employees ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Two historians have resigned from a University of Virginia affiliate over its decision to hire a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration as a senior fellow.

News outlets report Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock notified the Miller Center’s ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia governor’s grandson accused of raping a fellow University of Virginia student has avoided prison time.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Teresa A. Sullivan’s books are still on their shelves at her Madison Hall office at the University of Virginia. She hasn’t yet taken down teaching awards or decided which papers will stay in Charlottesville and which will go with her on a yearlong sabbatical to the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The head of a University of Virginia affiliate focused on presidential scholarship is defending his decision to hire a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration as a senior fellow.

Miller Center CEO William Antholis said in a statement Friday ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A petition is calling on the University of Virginia to revoke the teaching appointment of a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — White nationalist Christopher Cantwell has pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from a torch-lit rally at the University of Virginia last summer.

News outlets in Charlottesville report Cantwell entered the plea Friday to two counts of assault and battery after ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia has named a new chief of police.

The Daily Progress reports Tommye S. Sutton, currently the deputy ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A former University of Virginia student who filed a civil rights lawsuit after his 2015 arrest by alcohol-enforcement agents has received a nearly $250,000 settlement.

Martese Johnson sued Virginia’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and three of its ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is moving forward this summer with plans to install wheelchair ramps to make its famous Lawn more accessible.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Doug Harnsberger first saw the sketch in 2012 while searching through Thomas Jefferson’s papers: a thumbnail drawing of a circle with spokes radiating outwards.

For 200 years, the sketch was mislabeled as a skylight at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda. But ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The family of a slain University of Virginia student has withdrawn a $29.5 million wrongful death lawsuit against her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted of killing her.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The president of the University of Virginia will help Michigan State University as it picks a new leader.

Michigan State says Teresa Sullivan will serve as an adviser to the school’s trustees as they begin a search. John Engler has been interim president since ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Two University of Virginia School of Law alumni have made a $43.9 million donation to the school, which is the largest gift in its history.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia’s police chief will retire this summer after more than a decade on the job.

University Chief Operating Officer Pat Hogan commended Chief Michael Gibson’s “steady” leadership “during a period of significant challenges” in a release. The ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is changing its policies for outside people or groups that want to meet outdoors on college property — nearly nine months after white nationalists led a torch-lit march through campus.

According to a news release, the new policies that ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia lawyer who gained national attention when she was rewarded with $20,000 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” for helping juvenile offenders has been charged with smuggling drugs and a cellphone to an inmate.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the University of Virginia effectively banning Jason Kessler from its campus (all times local):

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The main organizer of last summer’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is defending himself after being effectively banned from ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The law library at the University of Virginia has changed its access policy after two appearances from the main organizer of last summer’s white nationalist rally and the arrest of a protester.

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LEESBURG, Va. (AP) — A white nationalist who was charged in connection with a torch-lit rally at the University of Virginia last year has been arrested for public swearing and intoxication last month.

Leesburg police spokesman Sam Shenouda tells WTOP-FM ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia statue of Thomas Jefferson was vandalized with the words “RACIST + RAPIST” as the university commemorates the 275th anniversary of its founder’s birth.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A $15 million donation will enable every member of the University of Virginia’s incoming class of full-time MBA students to receive paid trips abroad.

The university’s Darden School of Business

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia’s next president has moved up his start date.

The Daily Progress cites an ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An activist group wants the University of Virginia remove names from certain buildings over a donor’s ties to disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A trash collector who was injured when his truck was hit by a train carrying Republican congressmen through rural Virginia has been released from a hospital after weeks of treatment.

A spokesman for the University of Virginia Medical Center said Monday afternoon ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia Health System says it’s notifying more than 1,880 patients that an unauthorized third party may have been able to view some of their private medical information.

A University of Virginia Health System news release says they learned in ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer has been scheduled to speak at the University of Virginia School of Law.

The Daily Progress reports Breyer is set March 1 to discuss his most recent book. The school’s

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah soon will have a new president.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports the Utah Board of Regents is expected to vote Thursday ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A new, multimillion-dollar center at the University of Virginia will bring together researchers to eliminate a data bottleneck built into computer systems 70 years ago.

The university announced in a release Monday that the Center for Research in Intelligent ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Local governments, hospitals and the University of Virginia spent at least $540,000 preparing for and responding to white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State University is asking a federal judge to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed by an associate and organizer of campus tours for white nationalist Richard Spencer.

At issue was Ohio State’s decision earlier this year to deny a request by Spencer to speak on ...