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Updated: 9 hours ago
|By Bruce Young
The amphitheater at the Jackson River Sports Complex hosted the band Five Dollar Shakes, with plenty of room for the crowd in their sixteen-acre field.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Bruce Young
As Lexington city council met into the early morning, they heard many opinions, some live, many by email, and even petitions, but after four hourse, they voted to change the name of the city-owned Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2020 at 1:27 PM EDT
One Roanoke woman is nearly $200,000 richer after getting into an argument with her boyfriend.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2020 at 11:30 AM EDT
Fleetwood Homes has been in Franklin County since 1968 and currently employs 146 people.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2020 at 10:08 AM EDT
The Downtown Lynchburg Association announced Wednesday its annual Get Downtown event would be canceled for 2020.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2020 at 5:23 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
The new equipment replaces a playground that has been in use for over a decade.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2020 at 2:10 PM EDT
|By Meteorologist Ian Cassette
June was another wet month and highlighted by another stubborn cut-off low.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2020 at 1:58 PM EDT
|By Sarah Irby
A list of firework displays happening in our hometowns this holiday weekend.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2020 at 6:37 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Like many items in museums, it can be difficult to find the time to give it the detailed study it deserves, until COVID shut down all the public activities.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2020 at 6:24 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
Faraldi replaces Turner Perrow as the Ward IV representative.
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Updated: Jun. 30, 2020 at 4:16 PM EDT
|By Ashley Anne
Horace Ellis died Monday in a car crash in Forest.
Updated: Jun. 30, 2020 at 12:57 PM EDT
The 2020 Radford Highlanders Festival has been canceled due to COVID-19.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2020 at 6:03 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
After being closed by coronavirus restrictions, the Omni Homestead resort reopened Monday.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2020 at 7:07 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
As flooding has reduced, Twin River Outfitters has seen a rush of customers wanting to get out and enjoy the river in canoes, kayaks and tubes.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2020 at 6:52 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
Buena Vista Presbyterian Church was empty Sunday because of news that a member of the congregation tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2020 at 6:30 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
A Franklin County resident who wants the Confederate statue removed from the courthouse found a local roadside stand selling a cartoonish lawn ornament of a Black man eating a watermelon.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By Ashley Anne
Quan McLaurin, the university’s’ Director of Diversity, resigned earlier this month after Jerry Falwell Jr.’s controversial mask Tweet depicting Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 4:47 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
The Stonewall Jackson House, where Jackson lived as a professor at VMI, has been undergoing improvements and expansion with a new welcome center including a gift shop and display area next to the house itself.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 11:20 AM EDT
Each year, Evan Williams Bourbon recognizes a select few veterans for their service and bravery. This year, a Martinsville man will be among those honored.
Updated: Jun. 23, 2020 at 8:44 PM EDT
|By Eddie Callahan
Store management says the Virginia Department of Health had given them the approval to stay open after reviewing their proper proactive measures that were carried out.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 7:52 PM EDT
The 34-year-old apparently walked through the open house and gave his personal information before leaving and returning with a wrench to attack Farrington.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 5:48 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
The city says basketball doesn't allow for social distancing.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 5:43 PM EDT
|By Michael Alachnowicz
Residents who live near the site of the proposed venue say it could cause issues.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 4:58 PM EDT
|By Eddie Callahan
If approved by the university’s governing body, the JMU Board of Visitors, Jackson, Ashby and Maury Halls will be given temporary names as new titles are finalized over the coming academic year.
Updated: Jun. 20, 2020 at 8:30 PM EDT
|By Bruce Young
As statues to Confederate leaders are torn down across the country, the town where Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson faces calls to remove Confederate symbols.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 6:24 PM EDT
The location was originally set to open by Memorial Day.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 5:50 PM EDT
Residents say they pay a property owner to maintain the roadway, but allege the owner hasn't contacted them.