The single-story home at 141 Penn Lane retained “extensive heat and smoke damage,” displacing a mother and three children

The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to proceed with relocating the intersection of Diamond Hill Road, shortly north of the Hales Ford Bridge

Comcast Digital Cable channel lineups across the Blue Ridge region, including the Danville area, will realign on Wednesday to what Comcast is describing as “a more streamlined, user-friendly, genre-based format.”

A property manager tells us the two men were putting up sheetrock in a room with a heater, but no windows open

Old time fiddle music fills Danny Smith’s workshop. There’s a hunk of ivory on the table and hundreds of hand tools on the shelves and wall.

RICHMOND - A revised plan for studying whether uranium can be mined safely in Virginia surfaced in the General Assembly on Monday, driven by an environmental group’s warning that the search for an answer should start with an unbiased review by scientists.

Altogether, the lawmakers’ requests statewide add up to about $2 billion per year for 2008-10, but it’s not clear those requests will be anything more than a wish list.

The 29-lot Foxcroft Estates is just off U.S. 501 near Suburban Road. Lot sizes are between three and seven-and-a-half acres.

For the first time in its 17-year history, New Covenant Schools is accredited, which its headmaster said marks a commitment to continuous improvement

Frederick Hammer now an inmate at NRV jail

The Department of Defense says that Sgt. Tracy Renee Birkman of New Castle died on Friday, January 25, of non-combat related injuries.

In an e-mail Monday, Fort Campbell public affairs officer Sgt. Mark Swart wrote Birkman is survived by three sons, Bradley Griffith, Joshua Birkman, and Ryan Birkman.

Roanoke County Police say Thomas Farrell was killed by a hit and run driver early Monday morning

Attendees will not be singled out for more vigorous law enforcement treatment and traffic stops, than any other event of similar size

Officers are bringing Frederick Phillip Hammer from Charlotte County, Florida to Virginia. He’s charged with three counts of capital murder.