Pinkie Louise Layne pleaded guilty today to two counts each of aggravated malicious wounding, using a firearm in a felony and shooting into an occupied vehicle

The program, coordinated through the state education department, will send high school transcripts electronically rather than by mail delivery to selected state universities. 

After a successful showing in June 2007 at Parkway Marina on the Bedford County side of the lake, the Bassmaster Elite Series is returning in April 2009 and August 2010.

The project entails making improvements to signals and the addition of some turn lanes. 

Roanoke City Police say they found the body of a man lying on railroad tracks Tuesday night

A television engineer for Blue Ridge PBS had a close encounter with a black bear

The state Department of Environmental Quality has announced it will hold a public meeting July 29 in Altavista on its river study and cleanup efforts.

Lynchburg to Washington route included in draft

The controversy surrounding Gearhart Skate Park is over for now.

With gas prices at record highs, car dealers have long waiting lists for hybrids.  But you might be surprised about how long the payoff may take, when switching from a regular vehicle.

Former Riverbend Volunteer Fire Department Chief Gary Lee Toler faces up to 95 years in prison

Lynn Decker is preparing for an extreme makeover. Unlike the stylists, carpenters and other designers associated with the TV shows, the Crockett resident is using her horse training skills to tame a wild mustang.

Jack Weaver figures he’s been waiting on a train – or a train company, in his case – long enough.
So, come August, the owner of the historic Rural Retreat Depot plans to pull up stakes and chug out of town.

Patrick Henry Community College is going from a 3-day class schedule to two days.

A local dance studio that received an extreme makeover is still closed, but the owner isn’t letting that stop her or her students from enjoying dance.

The Sheriff’s office says the address change will help improve emergency response times

After a heated meeting Monday night where Vinton Police faced criticism from the public, officers are now giving their side of the story.

Beer and cigarettes were targeted in two convenience store burglaries in Campbell County, police said

A 3-year-old boy was found alone by employees at Danville Stadium Cinemas at about 11:30 a.m. 

Jim McCormick has been named in a lawsuit alleging he had a two-year “romantic and sexual relationship” with a teacher in a North Carolina school division. 

Officers say the woman refused to drop a knife, and tried to attack a man

The former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia closed in on the six figure mark a little more than a month after announcing he would run

The Bedford County Board of Supervisors voted 3-3 to declare roads within the Marina at Sunset Cay private except for a connector road to Kasey Lakeview Drive near Virginia 122. 

Bedford Landings, a three-story lodge with five bedrooms and a 2,000-square-foot hangar on Buccaneer Road, is planned next to the airport’s runway

A man is in the hospital and a woman is charged with driving under the influence of drugs after a bizarre series of accidents Monday afternoon on U.S. 58 in Sutherlin

Officers say an 18-year-old was stabbed Monday evening on Lafayette Blvd.

State Police say a 70-year-old Richmond man ran off the road, then overcorrected before the crash

VDOT estimated replacing the guardrail would cost $17,000.
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A Virginia teenager is being held in juvenile detention after telling police he was getting high on mushrooms collected from “cow-pies” in pastures.

Danville police responded to two separate stabbing incidents after midnight Monday.