Value City, a discount retailer and one of the mall’s anchors, will close. In its place will be built the “Regal River Ridge Stadium 14,“ a 56,000 square-foot theater with 2,400 seats.

The team of seven boys spent months designing and painstakingly building a bridge-like structure that was both lightweight and strong

A 32-parcel subdivision once under construction in Forest is in foreclosure and slated for auction May 28

Man found dead identified

Jerry Falwell passed away in his office one year ago.  Today, it’s exactly the way he left it.  Now the family is opening the doors to the public.

A year ago today, the Rev. Jerry Falwell stepped into his office at Liberty University following a breakfast meeting and soon drew his last breath

Plans for LU expansion narrowly approved

Officers arrested Donald Payne, after finding him near Wadsworth Street.  The early morning fire that occurred in April caused the bridge at the intersection of Fort Avenue and Park Avenue to collapse.

After receiving two specific threats written on a bathroom wall, school officials increased security at Heritage High School on Wednesday, placing three police officers on campus.

“We’ve got to stop being stupid, and help the people that need the help,” city resident Mary Payne said during a public hearing Tuesday night.

Justin Baumgardner was found shot to death May 4 in his pickup truck in a driveway off Virginia 130

The historic 18th century Amherst County home now sits in pieces in a dairy barn at Sweet Briar College, but plans are in the works to rebuild Tusculum and turn it into a center for community history and outreach.

Lynchburg man staying in jail until hearing

Three people were arrested Monday on drug possession charges, and police say they used an Amherst home to sell and distribute drugs.

State wildlife officials and the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office say that bear sightings are becoming more common

E.C. Glass High School’s “Man With a Cigar” painting, painted by a student in 1977 and displayed in the south hallway of the school, was stolen sometime in the evening of April 16 or the early morning of April 17.

Central Virginia Electric Cooperative has experienced a communications outage affecting its three central Virginia offices, located in Nelson, Fluvanna and Appomattox Counties.

Police say the officers responded to a call for shots fired at a home in the town.  When they got there, the officers found Michael Long armed with a shotgun.

Bowling with Nintendo Wii…it’s popular past-time, but could it also be therapeutic for people with arthritis?  That’s what a group of researchers at Longwood University hope to find out.

The former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College’s class of 2008 honored its single-sex roots at commencement Sunday while congratulating the 148 women that comprised its final all-female class.

Saturday was the first time that television star Chuck Norris ever addressed a college graduation, but Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said it wouldn’t be his last.

The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office tells us the two men took the telephone from the Quizno’s on Forest Road along with an undisclosed amount of cash, after one of the suspects pointed a gun at two employees.

The Lynchburg convenience store clerk shot last month was discharged from Lynchburg General Hospital on Thursday, according to a hospital spokesperson.

Police in Lynchburg arrest a man for stabbing another man in the chest in the parking lot of a local restaurant.

Justin Baumgardner was found shot to death on Sunday in Amherst County.

A worker for Thomas Builders apparently fell about 10 feet, from the first level of the house being built into the concrete basement, authorities said.

Richard Goad, 49, of Dobson, N.C., was working on the electrical wiring of a sign at Brookneal’s Jiffy Store when he was shocked, Campbell County Inv. Tony Bates said.

State Police say seven students are also hurt.

Campbell County officials are discussing whether to stop maintaining the Altavista armory for community use.  The armory is state-owned, needs about $500,000 in repairs and costs the county about $40,000 per year to operate, county administrator David Laurrell said.

Aleth Harrison Mays Jr., the most recent victim in a rash of area traffic fatalities, died Tuesday night due to circumstances that could have been avoided, according to Virginia State Police.