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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A national movement is under way, combining the best efforts of communities, businesses and government, to clean up and reclaim the country's numerous pollution-scarred landscapes known as brownfields. These former industrial sites, often in poor areas, present complicated challenges and usually aren't toxic enough to receive massive federal aid. A varied group of University of Virginia faculty members, all affiliated with its environmentally conscious School of Architecture, are closely involved with this national effort.

There is Chris Brown, these days sporting a neck tattoo that looks like ex-girlfriend Rihanna after he bloodied and bruised her. And Charlie Sheen, whose assault of his wife is somehow just another part of his troubled yet comedic persona. Sharon Love is just warming up on the issue of relationship violence. Normally soft-spoken, and by nature a sunny personality, Love grows outraged as the subject takes her from feckless celebrities to the anonymous victims sheltered by such groups as Baltimore's House of Ruth "They're hiding from these men. They're the ones hiding, and these men are running free," she says.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Getting in to see John Casteen III is no easy matter. As president of the University of Virginia, one of the nation's premier colleges, he is often on the road, raising money for a $750 million capital fund drive that does not end until the year 2000. When he is on campus, he is tightly scheduled. Early in the morning, appointments begin to back up in the elegant waiting room outside his Madison Hall office. Alumni, faculty, undergraduates, doctoral candidates, state legislators, bankers, the student reporter from the Cavalier Daily Q - they all want a few minutes.

George Huguely is guilty of murder. He went to the apartment of his on-again, off-again girlfriend, University of Virginia classmate Yeardley Love and, in a drunken rage, broke through her door, confronted her about infidelity, grabbed her, shook her, beat her and left her bruised and bloody. A jury in Charlottesville, Va., concluded that the killing was not premeditated, but jurors were not willing to accept the defense argument that it was an accident, or excused in any way by the 15 or more drinks Mr. Huguely had consumed that day. Jurors recommended that he be sent to prison for 26 years, longer than his life so far. That sentence may offer justice, but it brings no restitution.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have received a grant of $5.1 million over five years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will fund a multidisciplinary Program Project to begin to develop a cure for Crohn's disease by isolating new treatment targets. "To date, no one has been able to determine exactly what causes Crohn's disease, and this has limited the ability of researchers to develop successful treatments.

An article in yesterday's editions about the genetics and crime conference in Queenstown inaccurately described a study cited by Dr. Irving Gottesman of the University of Virginia. The study, conducted by researchers in Minnesota, showed that identical twins reared apart tended to have similar scores in tests for anti-social personality disorder.The Sun regrets the error.

MRS. DORIS MARIE KNORR, 74, of Frederick, formerly of Charlottesville, VA and Baltimore, MD died Sunday, July 9, 2006 at the Frederick Memorial Hospital. She was the wife of 55 years to Dr. Norman J. Knorr. Born in Baltimore, MD on January 9, 1932 she was the daughter of the late Felix H. and Ida Weinel Morrison. Doris attended Catholic University, the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia taking courses in architecture, art and psychology. In Charlottesville she volunteered to work for Recording for the Blind.

Guy Carleton Drewry, 90, a minister's son who became Virginia's poet laureate although he had to support himself as a railroad statistician, died Saturday in Roanoke after battling pneumonia. He had little formal education but lectured at the University of Virginia and elsewhere on creative writing and literature. "It came out of the air," he said of his work. "I felt like a violin somebody was playing on." He published six volumes of poetry, and his work appeared in numerous anthologies.

HELEN RIDGELY LYON VAN NESS, 59, passed away on February 23, 2005 at the University of Virginia Hospital after a brief illness. She was a long time resident of Harrisonburg, Virginia. She graduated from Calvert School in Baltimore, Garrison Forest School in Garrison and Towson University in Towson. She was the daughter of the late Carroll Van Ness, Jr. and Helen Gill Lyon of Owings Mills. She is survived by her brother, Carroll Van Ness, III of Lutherville; her sister, Frances Lyon Van Ness of Kent Island, Maryland; her two sons, Ian Christopher Vining of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Neil Carroll Vining, M.D. of Seattle, Washington and two grandchildren.

WASHINGTON -- Reacting to widespread complaints from Christian legal advocates, the Supreme Court said yesterday that it will reconsider a lower court ruling that bars a state university from subsidizing a student magazine because it espouses an "avowedly Christian" perspective.In recent years, Christian legal groups have complained that the high court's insistence on a strict separation of church and state sometimes translates into discrimination against mainstream religious groups.For example, some school and state college officials have said that their institutions may subsidize student groups which promote feminism, environmentalism, gay rights or a variety of other causes but they may not subsidize student groups that promote religion.

The last thing George Huguely V's lawyer said as he left the courthouse at the end of his client's murder trial this week was that he looked "forward to some corrections on what happened here. " It is unclear whether he thought mistakes had been made by the jury - which found Huguely, 24, guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny in the beating death of Yeardley Love, recommending a 26-year prison term - or by the legal teams. The lawyer, Francis McQ. Lawrence, did not respond to a request for comment.

Jurors in the murder trial of George Huguely V, accused of fatally beating his former University of Virginia girlfriend two years ago, will begin deliberation in the case later this week, after two weeks of intense testimony and several delays. The prosecution gave a lengthy and emotional statement during closing arguments Saturday, describing Huguely, 24, as a bully who couldn't control his drinking or his temper. They claim he killed Yeardley Love, a Cockeysville native, in a jealous rage, then stole her laptop to hide a threatening email trail.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire refused a defense request Wednesday to strike charges against George Huguely V, finding that there was "ample evidence to support a jury finding in favor of all of the indictments" against the former University of Virginia student, including premeditated murder. Huguely is accused of drunkenly beating to death his former girlfriend, Cockeysville-native Yeardley Love, shortly before they were set to graduate. He is charged with murder, breaking and entering, assault, robbery and other crimes in connection with Love's death in 2010 and the theft of her laptop.

Two months before Yeardley Love's bruised body was found in a pool of blood in her apartment near the University of Virginia, George Huguely V had violently wrestled her to the ground in a "choke hold," prosecutors said Wednesday, describing it as a precursor to the attack that would kill her. "This was a turbulent relationship," Commonwealth's Attorney Warner D. Chapman said during opening statements in Huguely's trial in Charlottesville Circuit...

Mike Barillo has taught Denny McCarthy for as long as the 17-year-old from Burtonsville has played golf, watching McCarthy grow from a player who could beat kids his own age to one who could take on much older and more experienced competition. "Mentally, he's better than any kid I've ever seen," Barillo said Thursday from Argyle Country Club in Silver Spring, where he's the head pro and where McCarthy's family have been longtime members. "He's extremely competitive, but he's extremely calm, really disciplined, just a smart kid and a really smart golfer."

The tragic death of University of Virginia student Yeardley Love last Monday ought to be a wake-up call to the nation's colleges and universities not only of the peril of violence on campus but of the alcohol abuse that helps fuel it. George Huguely, the former boyfriend charged with her murder, has a history of public intoxication and incidents of violent behavior. That both victim and alleged perpetrator are Marylanders — raised in the seemingly protective shelter of affluence, private schools and lacrosse fields — has made the episode all the more chilling.

Services for Donnell Middleton Smith, a retired Realtor and avid outdoorsman, will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, St. Thomas Lane in Owings Mills.Mr. Smith, who lived his entire life in the family home in Stevenson, died of a heart attack Monday in the room where he was born. He was 78.Son of a Baltimore architect, Mr. Smith spent much of his life fishing and hunting game on the Eastern Shore. He pursued his favorite pastime right up to his death, bagging a goose in Cecil County on the last day of the goose season while hunting with his grandson.

Donnell Middleton Smith, a retired Realtor and avid outdoorsman, died of a heart attack Monday in the room where he was born. He was 78.Services for Mr. Smith will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, St. Thomas Lane in Owings Mills.He lived his entire life in the family home in Stevenson.Son of a Baltimore architect, Mr. Smith spent much of his life fishing and hunting game on the Eastern Shore. He pursued his favorite pastime right up to his death, bagging a goose in Cecil County on the last day of the goose season while hunting with his grandson.

Timothy J. Longo Sr. once commanded a single Baltimore police district that was larger, more populated and more dangerous than the entire Virginia city he now serves as police chief. But now, the grandson of an immigrant from Sicily, who spent nearly two decades quickly rising through the turbulent ranks of the city police department before leaving in 2000, is at the center of a crime garnering national attention. Longo has been in front of the cameras in Charlottesville, answering questions about the slaying of a University of Virginia lacrosse player from Cockeysville, a compelling story of broken romance, sports and affluence that has rocked a prestigious university near Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Richard Bayly Buck Jr., who as president and chairman of the Valleys Planning Council worked diligently for the preservation of the scenic Green Spring and Worthington valleys, died Saturday of cancer at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Lutherville resident was 85. Mr. Buck was born in Baltimore and raised on Overhill Road in Roland Park. He was a 1940 graduate of Episcopal High School in Richmond, Va., and began his college studies at the University of Virginia. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army and served as a paratrooper with the 13th Airborne Division in France.