Lt. Whit Clark said the incident happened just before 8 p.m. Tuesday at the train tracks running parallel to Hydro Street, off VES Road. 

Poplar Forest will celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s birthday on Sunday, April 13th with special events throughout the day. Birthday cake will be served! 

A man wearing a mask walked in the story and showed the employee a handgun, demanding money. The clerk handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and fled on foot across Timberlake Road.
The man is described as white, about 6-feet-2, and weighing about 240 pounds. 

The road is back open

The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network says that it has been chosen by Bruce Springsteen to be the charitable beneficiary of his April 30th concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville

A plan to build an 18,240-square-foot fire station in Forest was approved Monday by Bedford County’s Planning Commission.

The request, made by Donnie and Sandra Cyrus, was to accommodate a pet miniature horse, which Sandra Cyrus told the board was a gift from neighbors. 

The Lynchburg Police Department is investigating the larceny from the Wal-Mart store on Wards Road on March 21. 

Leland Melvin captivated students at Liberty University as he talked about his mission to the International Space Station.  At Monday morning’s convocation service he told students about his voyage, from lift off to connecting with the space station, while showing video from the mission.

When Kelly Mann first opened a hair salon in a hallway of Liberty University’s North Campus in October, most passers-by assumed it was a beauty school with hairstylists-in-training.

The first Caterpillar Clubhouse family-owned day-care center opened in Rustburg barely over a year ago.  Since then, Shelly Hunt, along with her sister-in-law and mother, have opened three more centers in the Lynchburg area, serving more than 300 children.

Astronaut and Lynchburg native Leland Melvin, facing, receives a hug from Lynchburg mayor, Joan Foster, on Monday morning as Melvin visited Heritage High School, the same school that he graduated from in 1982. 

The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office arrests a teenager, accused of stabbing a Hill City Company cab driver.

A 17-year-old boy accused of assaulting his grandmother, stealing her car and crashing it into a mobile home was arrested Saturday night on multiple felony charges and a misdemeanor, according to the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office. 

A woman led Lynchburg police on an hour-long chase through the city, as well as Bedford and Campbell counties, Friday afternoon, according to police. 

The Blue Ridge Parkway’s future, including the role of visitor centers in the Lynchburg region, could be changed under plans for management methods designed partly because of public comments. 

Hundreds of people come out Saturday morning to raise awareness about organ donation.

It took hours of cutting, grinding, and welding. The result is a Virginia Tech Memorial Bike, created at Milwaukee Iron in Lynchburg. It will go to auction in Las Vegas. All the money raised will be donated to the Hokie Memorial Fund. 

City Council hopeful David Johnston is embroiled in what building inspectors say is their longest-running case of code violations in a house still being lived in.

Three-hour search has happy ending

Kimberly Lynn Wingfield, 20, was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, felony child neglect, failing to properly restrain a child, not wearing a seat belt, underage possession of alcohol and no driver’s license in possession. 

CVCC alumnus and IT staffer Thomas Turner will appear at the College’s Barnes and Noble Book Store to sign his recently published anthology of poetry and prose entitled, “What are Words For?”, and his previously issued novel, “Blood on the Badge”. The event will take place on Monday, April 7, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Crash in Lynchburg sends motorcyclist to UVA Medical Center

Neighbors save woman’s life and try to save her home in a fire

1,200 pairs of shoes sat on the lawn of E.C. Glass High School in Lynchburg.  That’s the number of people an anti-smoking group says die from smoking every day. It’s a reminder to teenagers about just how dangerous it can be.

The “Weekly Grand” scratcher that Cary Simonton redeemed Monday won him $1,000 per week for 10 years. 

A Troutville man is in jail after police said he impersonated an officer and asked Wards Road businesses for security camera tapes Monday night. 

Two men broke into a McCausland Ridge apartment and robbed its occupant around 10 p.m. Monday, police said.

Police arrested a man they say impersonated an officer and asked Wards Road businesses for security camera tapes Monday night, saying he was investigating a bank robbery.

A landmark Tchaikovsky symphony and three of the Russian composer’s most popular pieces for cello and orchestra highlight the Lynchburg Symphony’s final concert of its 2007-2008 season.