A home on Noel Lane in Gladstone wsa destroyed by fire Saturday

Why did Kimberly Anyadike set out to become the youngest African-American female flyer to pilot an aircraft from coast to coast?  Her answer is one to which a lot of other 15-year-olds can relate.

The Greater Lynchburg Transit Company expects to see an almost 16 percent drop in state aid this year, forcing cutbacks in service

Liberty University has drawn up a conceptual master plan for the ongoing revitalization of The Plaza.

Lynchburg is leading Central Virginia in population growth since 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau says.

Liberty University plans to celebrate the grand opening of its new Snowflex ski slope with a public event of professional exhibitions and open skiing on Aug. 29, the college announced Thursday.

An Amherst County employee charged with inappropriate contact with a child has resigned as the director of economic development.

Rep. Tom Perriello is the only congressman targeted in a televised version of a Republican Party ad that criticizes the House of Representatives’ 219-212 approval last week of a clean-energy bill.

Police believe the woman driving suffered a medical condition, which caused the crash

Works are painting the Carter Glass Bridge following last year’s deck rehabilitation

Lynchburg’s real estate market remains slow, but home prices have not fallen enough to affect the new assessed values of property in the city

A theft at a new construction site in Lynchburg has police searching for a suspect or suspects who stole two heat pumps and an air handler.

The Lynchburg Museum and Point of Honor are offering free admission this weekend in honor of Independence Day.

Two months after the resignation of former county administrator Rodney Taylor, the Amherst Board of Supervisors has issued a statement some board members say they hope will bring closure to the matter

The month of May saw twice as many unemployed people in Central Virginia as there were a year ago

Liberty University is once again the owner of a 26-acre tract on Candlers Mountain.

A Madison Heights man who led police on a high-speed chase into Lynchburg before driving his car into a taxi was convicted of attempted involuntary manslaughter Tuesday morning.

The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office arrested 24-year-old Santiago Munoz of Madison Heights for cutting another man with a knife.

A Lynchburg woman has pleaded guilty to a participating in a scheme to steal identities of nine residents of two nursing homes where she was a health-care worker.

A major wreck caused traffic to back up on U.S. 29 for two miles.

What was initially thought a hazardous chemical leak at Virginia Baptist Hospital turned out to be just a scare, Lynchburg Fire Department officials said Saturday.

The Museum of the Confederacy definitely is coming to Appomattox, museum and town officials say, but it may take a little longer than first anticipated because of fundraising issues.

Two congressmen representing the Lynchburg region took opposite stands Friday on a clean-energy bill, also known as cap-and-trade, that passed the House of Representatives later that evening.

Surveillance footage captured the theft of a car from Billy Craft Honda on Old Forest Road last Saturday, according to Lynchburg Police.

A Lynchburg man convicted of breaking into the home of a 76-year-old woman, beating her and robbing her at gunpoint was sentenced to 38 years in prison Friday.

A Lynchburg man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday morning for his role in a 2008 robbery.

Deeds, a Democrat, said he would seek to pay for better roads by promoting business growth that would increase state revenues.  McDonnell, a Republican, said he’d try to finance roads by “cutting spending on things that are not a priority.“

One thing that both candidates focused on was technology

Fans of pop icon Michael Jackson held an impromptu candlelight vigil in Lynchburg last night, brought together by Internet word-of-mouth after the music star’s death Thursday evening.

Liberty University solved its recent controversy over allowing a College Democrats club to exist on campus “perfectly,” Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday during his eighth year of speaking to Boys State gatherings in Lynchburg