The school system says the air quality in the building is not good

Police say a woman drove her car into the other lane, and hit the bus on Mayflower Drive

If practice makes perfect the Heritage High School Band has been doing a lot of practicing this year.

Surveillance video from Wal-Mart may help Lynchburg Police solve a larceny that occurred Nov. 17, as well as two larcenies on Nov. 11 in Altavista

It was so cold today that Amherst’s traffic circle fountain froze, capturing motorists’ attention enough that they frequently stopped to take pictures.

John Wayne Eggleston Jr., of Madison Heights pleaded guilty to one charge in exchange for the dismissal of the second.

Construction has begun on the first phase of the Greenview Drive widening, a major project expected to take about a year to complete

In the face of a widening achievement gap and a possible budget shortfall, the Lynchburg School Board discussed Tuesday a pilot program that would extend the school day at three elementary schools and cost an estimated additional $300,000 annually.

A childcare provider who pleaded guilty Tuesday to abusing two children will not spend any time in jail because of problems with the evidence in the case, a prosecutor said

An Appomattox County man accused of sexually abusing a young girl was cleared of all charges Tuesday morning in Lynchburg Circuit Court.

Lynchburg Police are searching for an armed man after four Lynchburg teenagers reported they had been robbed by a man with a revolver Tuesday night.

A city man accused of threatening the life of Jerry Falwell Jr. and sending threatening e-mails to a reporter for The News & Advance was released Tuesday afternoon after pleading guilty to the charges.

The current economic climate is creating uncertainty in all major markets, including energy, said spokeswoman Denise Woernle.

Lynchburg Police responded to two reports of armed robberies Monday night in different parts of the city.

Whatever was left of a Lynchburg house from a Christmas Eve fire went up in smoke Monday afternoon.

The department looked into the complaint after a father called 10 On Your Side after he said he witnessed the back-up on Saturday.

You wouldn’t expect a $1 million home on Easy Street on Smith Mountain Lake to end up in the same situation as a $20,000 house from inner-city Lynchburg.

Amherst County deputies say the construction equipment was stolen from property being logged on Buffalo Ridge Road

Campbell County’s Board of Supervisors will meet at 1 p.m. today in the Haberer Building in Rustburg.

A Lynchburg man’s sticky fingers lead police to his arrest and conviction Friday.  33-year-old Bernard Wood was sentenced to six years in prison.

An 18-year-old Lynchburg man was sentenced to six years in prison on one count of rape of a child.

The backdrop of this richly hued tableau is the imposing Villa Maria estate on Rivermont Avenue, one of the most picturesque properties in Lynchburg

Capt. Wayne Duff, with the Lynchburg Police Department, said two female students called police to the campus in the area of Montgomery Hall at about 7:45 p.m., reporting that they had been robbed

The regional plan includes Bedford, Campbell, Amherst and Appomattox counties and the city of Bedford.

Sweet Briar College recently received bequests from the estates of two former students totaling more than $4.4 million

Two South Wales detectives are thousands of miles away from home trying to successfully wrap up the cyber crime case involving the 8-year-old Virginia child and a 66-year-old man in Wales.

The case started when a complaint was filed to the Central Virginia Computer Crimes Task Force by a Campbell County woman in May 2007. The woman told state investigators she was on-line and in a chat room when a person made an inappropriate reference to her and her child.

Someone broke into the White Rock Bookkeeping and Tax Company, at 1800 Main St., and stole more than $4,500 worth of electronics

The estate of Henriette J. Gill donated the money to the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust

Lt. Col. Donald Nitti (Heritage), Capt. Ryan Husted (E.C. Glass) and Spc. Brandon Kennedy (Jefferson Forest), all of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade, found a common bond in their area roots through a wedding announcement.