Lynchburg News and Advance | Headlines (2024)

NEXT reports on how entrepreneurs responded when asked about profitability and business investment in the first half of 2024 and what they anticipate ahead of the holiday retail season.

In January, the state will join New Jersey, Iowa, Maryland and New York in prohibiting paddling, spanking or hitting in every school.

The parents of a 2-year-old boy who died in December with a "significant amount" of cocaine in his system are now facing felony murder charges in Spotsylvania.

The Amherst County Republican Committee cut the ribbon on its headquarters in Madison Heights on Aug. 17 with plenty of fanfare for Donald Trump’s hopeful return to the White House.

After recently receiving a $6.7 million school construction grant from the state, the Amherst County School Board is looking to restore measures previously cut from the ongoing addition and renovation at the county’s high school and add new ones if given the green light from the county board of supervisors.

Seven years after the closure of Pleasant View Elementary School, a local couple is working to transform the property into a multi-purpose event venue for entertainment, short-term tourist rentals, weddings and other public uses.

Nelson County Schools have officially opened their doors again for the new school year.

During the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) nationals that took place in Seattle in July, Marissa Garrett won a gold medal for her project.

The singer known as “Mr. Las Vegas” was born in Roanoke in 1942. A kindness he performed seven decades later made Doris Jean Bandy Swanson’s final years more comfortable.

The school doled out an additional $1 million in raises for its highest-paid employees this year.

The parents of a 2-year-old boy who died in December with a "significant amount" of cocaine in his system are now facing felony murder charges in Spotsylvania.

The state’s teacher vacancy rate has increased each year since 2020.

Watch live tonight as the Democratic National Convention continues in Chicago.

The move would have once seemed unthinkable for Kennedy, a Democrat for most of his life and a member of a beloved Democratic dynasty.

Here's a look at what is known about the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily and those aboard.

Divers scouring the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found four bodies Wednesday, as the search continued for two more missing passengers and questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly.

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The Medical Examiner's Office in Roanoke confirmed Tuesday human remains found Aug. 14 in Amherst County are those of Elsie Wiggington, an Amherst woman missing since June 2023, Sheriff Jimmy Ayers said.

Big technology companies are using methods to target children through websites and online apps in the same way that tobacco companies used to craft their advertising to draw the attention of young people, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said at a town hall last week at Thomas Road Ba…

A Bedford County Public Schools employee was arrested Friday and facing fourcounts of taking indecent liberties with child by person in custodial or supervisory relationship, the county sheriff's said.

Lynchburg At-large Councilman Martin Misjuns filed a notice of appeal on Thursday with a federal appeals court in response to a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit he filed against the city.

Big technology companies are using methods to target children through websites and online apps in the same way that tobacco companies used to craft their advertising to draw the attention of young people, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said at a town hall last week at Thomas Road Ba…

Lynchburg At-large Councilman Martin Misjuns filed a notice of appeal on Thursday with a federal appeals court in response to a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit he filed against the city.

A federal jury ruled in favor of the two Republican members on the Lynchburg Electoral Board in a lawsuit brought by former General Registrar Christine Gibbons who argued she was not reappointed to the position for a new four-year term for political reasons.

In an unusual move, a member of the Bedford County Board of Supervisors left his seat on the board’s dais at this week’s board meeting to speak during citizen comments on his concerns on traffic congestion in the county, particularly in the development-prone area of Forest.