Bedford County (Virginia)

Some Bedford County students are jumping to help the American Heart Association. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School held its 13th annual "Jump Rope for Heart" event Friday.  Kids learned the importance of having a strong heart and how movement and...

The Bedford County Sheriff's Office say they have three people in custody following a series of burglaries there. They arrested Steve Croy and Tiffany Tolley Friday afternoon. Both Roanokers are wanted in the connection of burglaries that happened...

A backseat passenger in a car that ran off the road and crashed in Bedford County has been charged with driving under the influence. While rare, a DUI charge filed against a backseat driver is not unprecedented in Virginia. The Roanoke Times reports...

In Bedford County, residents in one neighborhood are working on a solution to a problem with their road caused by flooding in January. A 50-foot chunk of road leading to their homes is gone. It washed away during last month's flooding. Sharon Cloutier...

The local meteorologist seriously hurt in a car accident last week in Bedford County is now out of intensive care, according to his employer. WSET reports that Jamey Singleton is now in guarded condition at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital....

State police say a snowplow driver was not seriously hurt when his truck ran off the road and flipped over. The crash happened around 5:30 a.m. Friday on Goodview Road in Bedford County.  A state trooper said the plow was clearing snow from the shoulder...

It will be a slippery morning commute across most of the Roanoke Valley and parts of the New River Valley. An accident that had detoured traffic off Interstate 81 overnight has been cleared. Here is the latest update from the Virginia Department of...

For some they're just words on a map.  Spots we pass by, but never think about.  Many of us call these places "home." Southwest Virginia is full of distinct, unusual, and even hard-to-pronounce names, but each one has its own special story. Everywhere...

10 a.m. UPDATE: 1,262 CVEC members remain without power. ============================ 9 a.m. UPDATE: Around 3,600 Central Virginia Electric Cooperative members are without power from Wednesday's storms. There is a downed wire affecting the Piney...

They are the silent architects that craft the election day layout. But it's not until things go wrong that General Registrars get an enormous amount of attention. As a representative for all 134 General Registrars in Virginia, Barbara Gunter is leading...

It started nearly a year ago with a casting call and ended Saturday with a world premiere. Thousands packed in to Thomas Road Baptist Church to check it out the finished version of "Finding Faith." The faith-based movie's goal is to educate both teens...

The Peaks of Otter are covered in winter white, but that's not the case in the valley below. While most of Western Virginia is covered in snow, there's barely anything to see in Bedford County. "I think it sucks!" said Bedford residents Ray and...