God’s Pit Crew has teams heading down to Tennessee and Arkansas, scenes of devastation after tornadoes struck Tuesday night.

Danville’s Home Depot should begin advertising its job openings in the next few weeks, according to a company spokeswoman.  Sarah Molinari, of Home Depot, said she expects the Danville store, which will be located in Coleman MarketPlace, to hire about 150 people.

One firefighter was injured and a mobile home suffered significant damage during a Wednesday evening blaze at Bachelors Hall Mobile Home Park, off Charming Road in Brosville.

Danville police are trying to piece together what may have led to the city’s first two murders of the year.

Antonio Saunders, the inmate who escaped from a Danville Adult Detention Center work crew Tuesday morning, turned himself back in at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Miss Virginia, Hannah Kiefer visits a local middle school.

Officers tell us Antonio Saunders walked off from the work detail on West Main Street Tuesday morning around 9:30 a.m.

Danville Police are searching for Antonio Saunders, who escaped from a work detail Tuesday.  Officers now believe Saunders may have gotten into a car.

Mayor Sherman Saunders announced this morning he will run for re-election.  Saunders said he is proud of the progress the city has made in economic development.

Police tell us a woman was backing out of a parking spot, then something happened, causing her to run over another woman pushing a shopping cart, then crash into 3 other vehicles

Just after six Monday evening a car ran off the road into a wooden fence on Jenny Lane in Danville.  Police thought they were responding to a car crash. Instead, it turned into a shooting investigation. Now both victims are dead.

Danville Police are searching for Antonio Saunders, who officers say escaped from an inmate work detail this morning on West Main Street

J’Raad Amajh Simpson has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the shootings at Virginia Carolina Homes in Pittsylvania County in May of 2007

The Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office says two high school students are in big trouble.

Two men found shot inside a car; both later died

The Rev. James A. Forbes Jr. returned to an area where he once preached to let about 200 people at Bibleway Cathedral know that Danville has better days ahead.

Tracy Holland was sent to the front lines, where his job was to rescue soldiers wounded in battle - but one night, Holland said, opposition forces decided to ignore the Geneva Convention’s law about not shooting at medics, and he and his fellow medics had to run for their lives.

A Gretna woman killed in a car accident Sunday morning is being remembered by her co-workers as someone who really loved life.

Debra Davis of Concerned Citizens of Northeastern Pittsylvania County asked the Board of Supervisors Monday for $10,000 in annual funds to maintain Wayside Park in Hurt. The nonprofit organization wants to tidy up the park, set up a portion of it as a rest stop/picnic area, and enable softball teams to play there.

Police say a van carrying seven inmates didn’t stop at the intersection of Climax Road and Rotue 40. It hit the back end of a Ford Explorer. Police tell WSLS Tiffany Chaney, 22, was thrown from the truck and died. 

The Virginia Museum of Natural History opens out of this world exhibit

Three homes were broken into Friday night by thieves who grabbed computers and DVD players.

The Bayou Rolls Into Southside

The Super Bowl is here and with that is the need to drink responsibly and not drive while intoxicated.

Hundreds of striking Volvo workers in our area get some big name support.

Police find 20 pounds of marijuana during a drug bust.

A paper jam in a piece of equipment is being blamed for an explosion Friday at the Shorewood Packaging plant off U.S. 58.

A fire sparked sometime around noon at Shorewood Packaging, and firefighters say an explosion caused it

Developing Story: North Carolina investigators say the plane was carrying people from Georgia to Patrick County, Virginia for a hunting trip

Healthcare for the area’s uninsured got a much-needed boost when the Danville Regional Foundation awarded the Free Clinic of Danville a $1.4 million grant this morning