Sandy Hausman
Radio IQ Charlottesville Bureau ChiefSandy Hausman joined the Radio IQ team in 2008 after living and working in Chicago for 30 years. Since then, she's won numerous national and regional awards for her prolific coverage of the environment, criminal justice, research and happenings at the University of Virginia. Sandy is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. Contact Sandy at shausman@vt.edu.
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The holiday season is here, and for many people that means more time with family, but one Charlottesville woman says she can’t go home. Instead, she’s trying to fulfil her mother’s dying wish. -
It was a weekend to sing, to pray and to remember three UVA football players gunned down one week earlier.
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Last year, Virginia spent well over a billion dollars on corrections – keeping nearly 24,000 people in prison, and the bill is about to get much bigger as that population ages. Sandy Hausman reports on what we can expect in the years to come and how the state is preparing to care for elderly and sometimes demented inmates behind bars.
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The man accused of killing three members of the University of Virginia football team appeared in court Wednesday.
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During a Tuesday news conference, athletic director Carla Williams said a decision would be made soon and that decision will include coaches and the team.
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The University of Virginia is grieving after a man opened fire on a bus full of students returning from a field trip Sunday, killing three of the university's football players and injured two others.
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During a Monday morning news conference, UVA's police chief was notified that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. was in custody.
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University officials say an intense manhunt is underway in and around the city Charlottesville for a suspect police described as armed and dangerous. Two other people were wounded.
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Experts say some people who have no traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease may have a genetic predisposition to suffer heart attacks or strokes at an early age, and a Charlottesville company has now produced a blood test that could identify them. Sandy Hausman has that story.
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It was a disappointing Election Night for Democrats in the Fifth Congressional District, but they found other reasons to celebrate.
