After receiving information about an unspecified social media threat, Albemarle County police department placed Albemarle High School and then Monticello High School under a modified lockdown for ...

Meriwether Lewis Elementary School in Albemarle County will be officially renamed Ivy Elementary School after a unanimous school board vote Thursday evening.

Four people — a mother and her three children, according to Facebook — were killed late Tuesday in the Stony Point area of Albemarle County in what police say was an apparent murder-suicide.