Photos from the celebration of Ash Lawn - Highland’s 250th birthday celebration

A massive crowd attended the 2008 Spring Races at Foxfield, which was cut short by a fast moving thunderstorm. 

Some 150 soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team returned from Iraq to their Charlottesville National Guard armory. 

With parachutes strapped to their backs, a handful of people piled into the Twin Otter plane one by one. The weather was holding up at Skydive Orange, and the parachuters were looking forward to another successful skydive. However, the experience was slightly different for a few of the parachuters. Some wore bat-like suits that connected their arms and legs with a piece of fabric. These wingsuits allowed their pilots to glide around in the clouds, giving them a very different experience than their skydiving peers.

The University of Virginia community remembers the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech with a one-year anniversary vigil at the McIntire Amphitheater on April 16, 2008.

Members of the UVa service fraternity APO are using their skills and time to renovate and build new ramps at the Charlottesville Skatepark.

On the second Tuesday of every month, Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers take over Blue Moon Diner, transforming it from a neighborhood eatery to a wrestling ring. Providing a riotous mash-up of theater and athleticism, the event raises money for a different woman-initiated local charity each month. 

Officials investigate a series of overnight shootings in Crozet and Waynesboro and along I-64.

Also known as “l’art du déplacement” - French for “the art of displacement” - parkour is an emerging activity that is sort of half sport and half martial art. The aim of its practitioners - known as traceurs - is to propel themselves through any environment quickly and efficiently, using only the human body as a vehicle.

Nearly thirty students from Central Virginia participate in the 61st annual regional spelling bee.