A 15-year-old Bedford boy convicted of molesting a 2-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl will not serve time in prison if he follows rules of his probation, a judge ruled

Brookville High School Custodian Lynn Mays was taking out trash on Monday when she heard a cry she couldn’t ignore.

A Bedford County teen who brought a .45-caliber pistol to Jefferson Forest High School last year will not serve any more jail time.

Bedford County Administrator Kathleen Guzi and Carl Boggess, the county’s attorney, are in the process of working out details in relocating the Forest Volunteer Fire Department to eight acres of county-owned land behind the Forest Library on U.S. 221.

Better community relations, particularly among minority groups, ranks as the No. 1 issue for people weighing in on the search for Lynchburg’s new police chief - beating out drugs and gangs by nearly 2 to 1.

Lynn Mays, a custodian at the school, noticed the bird in the metal framework of the gym’s canopy.  It was hanging upside down by its foot, more than 20 feet in the air.

The House of Delegates voted 90-3 Monday to name a section of U.S. 460 in Lynchburg the Jerry Falwell Parkway, which means only the signature of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is necessary to complete the naming.

At least two local school systems have taken action in their lunchrooms after the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the largest beef recall in history.

Atlantis and crew leave space station, check ship for ride back

At Lynchburg’s Texas Inn, people were taking notice of the new and improved News and Advance, with more pictures and brighter colors.

A Lynchburg man accused of murder is scheduled to go before a judge Tuesday to determine if his case should be heard by a grand jury.

The Campbell County School Board is scheduled to discuss the division’s 2008-2009 operating budget when it meets tonight.

Seat belts may have saved several lives in a Friday night wreck, according to Virginia State Police.

The News & Advance is launching its new press tonight for Monday’s edition. Monday’s newspaper will be sharper, brighter, and more colorful.

A temporary injunction that prevented the auction of four Randolph College paintings was lifted on Friday, but the school says it has not decided when to sell the artwork.

A report that there may have been a gun Friday at E.C. Glass High School had police searching the school.

A chimney defect that caused a January fire that destroyed six townhouses at Smith Mountain Lake is likely in other homes in the same community, Bedford County’s fire marshal said this week.

Leland Melvin was in Space Shuttle Atlantis, orbiting the Earth somewhere over Australia on Friday afternoon, when an audio/video hook-up brought his face and voice into a room at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton.

They were known around Lynchburg as the “gas men”; credit card scammers who were taking stolen card numbers and encoding them on fake cards, then offering to buy people gas in exchange for cash. 

Investigators tell us someone broke through a cinder block wall at the Sunny Bright Car Wash on South Amherst Highway in Madison Heights, between 6:00-10:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 9th.  When deputies arrived, they found a trail of quarters.

Lynchburg City Council has unanimously approved a new cable franchise contract that drops support for public access programming.

Confident and ready, Tiara Horsley was in and out of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in a matter of minutes Tuesday.  The 17-year-old African-American had just participated in her first election.
Horsley represents the face of a new generation of voters that Sherry Williams, president of the Lynchburg Voters League, said Tuesday would make this year’s November election a record-setting year in voter turnout for minorities and young people.

The Virginia Senate signed off on a study Tuesday of whether uranium can be mined safely in Pittsylvania County and elsewhere, giving 36-4 approval to a bill that has been rewritten with input from environmentalists.

A powerful sawdust explosion shook a building and started a fire at a furniture facility off U.S. 29 Tuesday morning, but left minimal damage and no injuries.

Rustburg Library closed on Wednesday February 13th due to heating problems

Voter registrars saw a mixed turnout in the Lynchburg area this morning for today’s primary.

Firefighters are battling a blaze at Charter of Lynchburg, a furniture-parts maker, on Winebarger Circle.

Growth in Lynchburg has brought both new opportunities and new challenges, Mayor Joan Foster said Monday night in her annual State of the City Address

Increased drug use and crime activity in Bedford County has led Sheriff Mike Brown to ask the Board of Supervisors to set aside funds for nine extra positions for the upcoming budget

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