UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

A lecturer at The University of Virginia told students that obesity is "mainly genetics" and claimed that avoiding the term "fat" is "inherently fatphobic."

South Carolina's Furman University is projected to become the Cinderella story of the NCAA Tournament.

In her new role, Cheney said she hopes to "contribute to finding lasting solutions that not only preserve, but strengthen our democracy."

The former congresswoman, who fell out of favor with the Republican Party, accepted a teaching position at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.

University of Virginia shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is expected at a status hearing in Charlottesville after allegedly murdering three former football teammates.

The University of Virginia approved a request to award the three football players killed in an on-campus shooting in November with posthumous degrees.

Family and friends say goodbye to D'Sean Perry at a viewing on Friday and funeral on Saturday for the University of Virginia football player from South Florida killed in a shooting on the campus last week

Chesapeake Police said early Wednesday that six people were killed in the attack and that the shooter also died.

Three UVA football players were fatally shot by a former member of the team on Nov. 13, after a field trip to see a play in Washington.

A University of Virginia football player who was seriously wounded in a shooting that killed three of his teammates has been released from the hospital. Lavel Davis Jr., D’Sean Perry and Devin Chandler were shot on a charter bus as they returned to campus from a field trip to see a play in Washington. Authorities have said that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a UVA student and former member of the football team who was on the trip, began shooting at students on the bus as it pulled to a stop at a campus parking garage.

Thousands of people have joined Virginia’s football team, coaches and staff in honoring three players who were shot dead as they returned from a field trip last weekend.

Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry will be remembered during a ceremony at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville.

The medical examiner's office said gunshot wounds to the head were responsible for the deaths of three University of Virginia football players.

Officials said Thursday that an outside special counsel will assist the state attorney general in reviewing the shooting.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares will appoint a special counsel to review the shooting at the University of Virginia that claimed three lives.

An ongoing criminal investigation is also underway, led by Virginia State Police.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says three University of Virginia football players who were shot on a chartered bus as they returned from a field trip to their campus each died of a gunshot wound to the head.

The move came at the request of the University of Virginia and its police department, which had been handling the high-profile probe.

Growing the Voices of Our FutureThe Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these editorial contributions made by local students. At the University of Virginia’s main campus in Charlottesville on Sunday, a shooter killed three people and injured two more. The suspect, who has been identified as a student, is still at large. After a shooting was reported on Culbreth Road at around 10:40 p.m., the university was instructed to remain indoors. The two injured people are receiving medical attention.

There is no playbook to instruct how athletic departments are to respond to the tragic death of one of their athletes.

In what a family friend described as a quintessential “American story,” D’Sean Perry went from growing up in Miami-Dade’s Richmond Heights neighborhood, to playing football at the prestigious Gulliver Prep in Pinecrest, to continuing his athletic and academic careers at the renowned University of Virginia.

Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman released a statement on the shooting that left three football players dead at the University of Virginia.

Perry, a studio art major, went to Gulliver Preparatory K-12 school located in Pinecrest, Fla. before signing to UVA as a three-star recruit. Christopher Jones Jr., a former football player on the UVA team, was at large for most of the day. According to the Miami Herald, Cristobal previously recruited Perry and Davis to play at the University of Oregon when Cristobal was a coach there. Not only has this impacted many students at the University of Virginia but many UM students who have ties to the area. “My sister goes to UVA and a good amount of my friends from high school too,” junior media management major Morris said.

Authorities said the suspect opened fire, killing Lavel Davis Jr., D'Sean Perry and Devin Chandler, and wounding two others, including another football player.

Virginia has canceled its home football game against No. 23 Coastal Carolina scheduled for Saturday following a shooting on campus that left three players dead and another wounded.

A University of Virginia student accused of killing three football players Sunday on the school's campus is due to appear in court Wednesday.

The University of Virginia football canceled the final home game of the season against Coastal Carolina following a shooting that left three players dead.

In the wake of three football players getting killed by a former teammate on Sunday, the University of Virginia football team may stop play this season.

"He is a fighter," Brenda Hollins said of her son Mike, who is in critical but stable condition.

UVA students held vigils after a shooting left three football players dead and another two injured, recalling how they sheltered for hours until Christopher Darnell Jones' arrest.

"We will never see what their impact on the world would have been, but we will never forget their impact on us," the athletics director said.

The University of Virginia community is mourning as new details emerge about both the three football players killed in a campus shooting this week and the criminal charges the suspect faces.

A shooting Sunday evening at the University of Virginia has left three dead and two injured according to the University. The suspect is in custody.

Students hid inside laboratory closets and dorm rooms across the University of Virginia after getting warnings of an active shooter.

The White House called for an assault weapons ban in reaction to the arrest of a suspect using a handgun to kill three University of Virginia students.

A suspect is in custody after killing three University of Virginia football players on a charter bus returning from a field trip, police say.

The University of Virginia’s police chief announced on Monday that the suspect in a shooting that killed three members of the school’s football team is in custody, ending an hourslong manhunt that triggered a campus-wide lockdown.

While speaking at a press conference on Monday, University of Virginia Police Chief Timothy Longo learned that the suspect in a shooting on Sunday night, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., had been taken into custody.

Three Virginia football players were killed in a shooting on campus Sunday night. The shooter is in custody.

A University of Virginia football player from South Florida was one of three people killed in a shooting on the campus Sunday.

Another mass shooting Sunday, this time at the University of Virginia, claimed the life of a former Miami Gulliver Prep star.

A gunman was on the loose Monday after killing three people at the University of Virginia, authorities said. Dan Schutte has more on the manhunt for the suspect, who authorities say is a student at the school.

The school's president said three people were killed and two others wounded. He identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.

The school's president said three people were killed and two others wounded. He identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.

Three people have been killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at a parking garage at the University of Virginia, according to the school’s president. (Nov. 14)

Law enforcement are pouring over the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville for student shooting suspect Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., as classes are canceled Monday.

Police in Charlottesville are searching for UVA student Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who remains at large.

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan said in a tweet that the suspect "is at large and considered armed and dangerous," amid reports of fatalities.

The University of Virginia is in lockdown as law enforcement officers search the campus for a suspected gunman.

Authorities said a University of Virginia student and former member of the school’s football team fatally shot three current players as they returned from a field trip.

The University of Virginia issued a warning to students to shelter in place late Sunday night following a report of shots fired on the campus. “There has been a shooting on Culbreth Road and the suspect is at large and considered armed and dangerous,” UVA President Jim Ryan said in a tweet, asking the university community to “please shelter in place.” The UVA Police Department posted a notice online saying multiple police agencies were searching for a suspect who was considered “armed and dangerous.”

A shooting was reported on campus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Sunday night. UVA police named former football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. as the suspect.

A shooting was reported on campus at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Sunday night. UVA police named former football player Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. as the suspect.

The gunfire was reported at the garage on Culbreth road, the campus emergency management office said.

It's been five years since White supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia on the University of Virginia's campus.

A group of researchers photograph a woolly mammoth tusk on the banks of the Koyukuk River in Alaska.

Members of the jury also became emotional as they listened to the testimony.

The mother of a former women's lacrosse player at the University of Virginia broke into tears during her testimony Thursday as she described the moment when she learned her daughter was dead. Sharon Love said she thought at first that her daughter had been in a traffic accident, adding that she never thought Yeardley Love would be murdered, WVIR reported. Sharon Love, the administrator of her daughter’s estate, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against George Huguely V, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 killing of Yeardley Love, his on-again, off-again girlfriend.

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The lead investigator for the Jan. 6 House select committee investigating the Capitol riot has been fired from his position as the University of Virginia's counsel by the state's new Republican attorney general, per the Washington Post.Why it matters: Democrats say the removal of Tim Heaphy from his post after some three years while he's on leave from the university to investigate the insurrection is likely "retribution" for the House probe — an accusation strongly denied by the office of state