We just got big news from a little birdie…
25 People Have Been Laid Off at The Daily Progress.
Media General, the Daily Progress’ parent company decided to move printing operations to Richmond to save on printing costs. The employees who used to work for the printing press no longer have jobs, but they will get severance packages.
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We learned early this morning that an 11 year old boy was killed during a shooting around 6 1/2 Street early this morning.
If you recall, there have been what seems like a lot of shootings recently. There will be a Noon press release with more details.
Update #1: 10:50AM Press Release from the City
This morning around 12:15 Charlottesville Police responded to reports of shots fired in the 300 block of 6 and a Half Street SW. Officers located Rueben Lewis III, 23(yoa), who had suffered a gunshot wound. Lewis directed police to an adjacent house where they found an 11 year old in the kitchen with a fatal gunshot wound. Aziz Damar Booth was declared deceased at the scene. Booth is a former 6th grade student at Walker Upper Elementary School. School officials have implemented their crisis control plan to afford more counseling resources for students and staff.
The 23 year old victim was transported to UVa Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Police believe that robbery was a motive in this incident but continue to investigate the circumstances.
Later that morning at Police Headquarters, Waverly “Eddie” Whitlock, 27 year old from the 300 block of 6 and a Half Street, reported to the police department in connection with this case. He is being held without bond at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. A preliminary hearing has is scheduled for June 25th in Charlottesville General District Court. Whitlock has been charged with capital murder (F), robbery (F), malicious wounding (F) and other related charges.
Picture of Waverly Eddie Whitlock after the break….
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Our little baby sister, StreakTheLawn has shut down after an editorial in the Cav Daily and our recent post about “Gossip sites ruining UVA.” 
Cloudbrain’s blog reads:
A recent post on the CVillain blog mentioned us at being behind a new UVA blogging site gaining some recent press. Several UVA students, with help from Cloudbrain, launched a “gossip”-focused blog at UVA a few weeks ago. The desire was to explore social media and the changing face of publishing on the Internet - as well as to celebrate fun and social life at UVA. Thanks to some other, more scandalous, sites the blog has found itself in the middle of an interesting conversation regarding publishing, anonymity, privacy and appropriateness. We have taken the site down.
But, why? Strength in NUMBERS!!
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