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Insurance broker scraps plan for new downtown HQ

riverfront plaza towers

Following the abrupt departure of its founding CEO, one of the region’s fastest-growing companies has tabled a plan to relocate its headquarters from the suburbs to the downtown riverfront.

Advisor who stole from widow, UVA frat sentenced to 7 years

richmond federal courthouse

Despite testimony from his family, friends and priest, a Charlottesville businessman was sentenced Thursday for pillaging the nest egg of his best friend’s widow, defrauding a Virginia bank and stealing from his fraternity.

Former UVA football player demands retrial for fraud conviction

Richmond federal courthouse

An ex-Cavalier linebacker convicted in August for his role in defrauding dozens of investors is arguing for a new trial, in part based on a question of whether media coverage of his case may have influenced the jury.

Hard Hat Happy Hour VIII: Old Town Manchester

1209 hull st

On Dec. 6 we’ll head inside a long-vacant, three-story building that once housed a Thalhimer’s department store and is being redeveloped as a brewpub and apartments.