Rockingham County (Virginia)

Evacuees lined up at Virginia Military Institute Wednesday morning, testing state and local emergency response to a major earthquake. The three-day, statewide exercise began Tuesday and simulates response to a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in central...

Virginia State Police have confirmed that a body found Friday in Bath County is Harriet Cobb. Cobb, who lived in Rockingham County, was a professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. ============================ Original story from Friday,...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) -- A preliminary hearing for a Pennsylvania man accused of throwing away Virginia voter registration forms has been delayed again. Media outlets report that Colin Small was scheduled to appear in Rockingham County General...

A Rockingham County bridge is closed indefinitely after a vehicle hit the span and damaged it. Media outlets report that the vehicle hit the bridge on North River Road in Mount Crawford on Sunday. The Virginia Department of Transportation says the...

A man who worked for a contractor hired by the state Republican Party has been charged with 13 felony and misdemeanor counts after sheriff's deputies in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley say he tossed voter registration forms into a dump bin. The Rockingham...

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will attend two events in western Virginia Friday. Ryan will rally Republicans at an event in Harrisonburg.  He's scheduled to take the stage at the Rockingham County Fairgrounds around 3:15 Friday...

Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan rallied Republican supporters and raised thousands of dollars today during a visit to Western Virginia. Ryan walked off his plane at Roanoke Regional Airport with his mother and his wife around 5:30PM, and headed...

An 18 month old child was killed and six other people were hurt when an SUV plowed through a school bus stop in Rockingham County Friday morning.  State troopers say a teenager was behind the wheel of the SUV.  Here is the complete news release from...

Joshua Ansell and Shawn Barb were arrested at 5:05 p.m. Wednesday in Staunton. Ansell and Barb walked away from a work crew in Augusta County on Wednesday morning. They are inmates at the Cold Springs Correctional Center. --------------------------...

It was a textbook call for the Rockingham County, North Carolina, Sheriff's Office; A man spotted near a power facility outside an abandoned factory. Officers say his motive was to steal copper wiring. It didn't work - deputies say he died trying....

Virginia State Police say seven people have been injured in a collision between a commercial passenger bus and a tractor-trailer on Interstate 81 in Rockingham County. State police say in a news release that five passengers on the bus and both drivers...

Twenty people across Virginia have been arrested in an undercover sting targeting online child predators. One of the arrests was in Bedford. The arrests were all part of an investigation called Operation Phalanx.  They were announced Thursday by...