A candlelight vigil is held in Lynchburg for a store clerk still in the hospital after being shot during a robbery.

A Campbell Co. man is killed when his car runs off the road. State Police say speed was a factor in the crash.

A Campbell County man died Thursday afternoon after running his car off the side of Mollies Creek Road, not far from U.S. 501 near Naruna

Gifts from more than 350 donors put the Center of Hope campaign over the top in its quest to raise $5 million, officials said Wednesday.  The center, a Salvation Army project, broke ground Wednesday morning during a ceremony that drew more than 70 people. 

Two Washington & Lee University students are safe after their canoe overturned in the James River near Balcony Falls on Wednesday night. 

The Central Va Livestock Show will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at the Lynchburg Livestock Market. 

“Down the Road,” an exhibition of photographs by Jerry De Avila of Braselton, Georgia, and his niece, Meridith De Avila of Lynchburg, will be on display at the Merritt Hall Gallery of Central Virginia Community College through the month of May

Lynchburg police officers mourn the death of one of their own.  Officer William Branham passed away Wednesday morning from colon and liver cancer.  He was diagnosed just a few weeks ago. 

Lynchburg City Schools are being honored by the Virginia Board of Education for raising the achievement of economically disadvantaged students

Two men charged in the alleged rape of a 27-year-old Altavista woman pleaded guilty this week to misdemeanor assault and battery. 

Thomas Junior Turner, 37, was sentenced in Nelson County Circuit Court to 28 years in prison, with eight years suspended, for killing Dewey Wood, also of Arrington, on May 23. 

The thief smashed glass in the back door of a house in the 300 block of Page Street, sometime during the night of April 12.

Abderrahin Elfilali remains in critical condition at Lynchburg General Hospital, nearly a week after he was shot during a robbery, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday night.

LU is seeking to rezone 237 acres along Candlers mountain’s base as part of its goal of growing to 15,000 students within the next five years. 

A man is dead after an apparent logging accident in Appomattox County Tuesday night

Officers tell us the criminals are using $5 bills that have been bleached and photocopied over with $100 bills.

Investigators are looking at whether thunderstorms played a role in the fatal fire that killed a Lynch Station couple Saturday. 

The aroma of baked goodies greets customers as they enter Bill’s Pastry Shop on Bay Street, just as in years past.  But this is a restored version of the iconic bakery, still in the heart of what was the busiest commercial area in Lynchburg in the 1970s, Memorial Avenue near what was then Pittman Plaza.

Sweet Briar College’s ninth president, Elisabeth Showalter “Betsy” Muhlenfeld, will retire from her 13-year position in June 2009.  In a letter announcing her retirement, she wrote that the decision was not an easy one and that she would re-main an enthusiastic member of the college community. 

A man shot Thursday night is still in critical condition. Six Lynchburg residents were arrested Friday and charged with armed robbery and other associated charges. Five of those arrested are juveniles

Investigators will be on the scene today searching to the cause of a house fire that killed a Lynch Station couple and their dog.

A suspect in a deadly shooting turns himself in to Lynchburg Police Saturday night.

The cause of a fire that destroyed a bridge on Fort Avenue on April 16 has not been determined. 

Investigators have still not pinpointed the cause of a fire that destroyed a Lynchburg fertilizer plant in January.

Joseph Edward Angove, 54, pleaded guilty in September to raping the girl and to two counts of aggravated sexual battery involving 12-year-old and 11-year-old girls in late November 2006. 

The victim, a woman working as a motel night clerk, says Eric Taylor came to the office saying something was wrong with his telephone. Once he got her into his room, he physically restrained and raped her. 

John Cook’s non-controversial appointment, with unanimous support among the Lynchburg region’s delegation to the General Assembly, was delayed for a month because of disputed judgeships elsewhere in the state. 

Sam Rose barely could sleep a wink Wednesday night.  No wonder, when you consider the source of his excitement. By noon Thursday, the 12-year-old had taken off for a half-hour of savory elevation into the blue skies over Bedford.

Alpha Kappa Alpha, a service-centered sorority with a historically black membership, has identified technology education as a national initiative. 

Seventeen months after the president of the Lynchburg-based Christian Action Network was accused of air dropping pamphlets on a Muslim compound, the matter was thrown out of court Thursday on a technicality.