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Lynchburg’s branch of Virginia Legal Aid Society has been receiving funding from the city of Lynchburg toward its work to represent low-income residents in legal matters for more than two decades, but a lawsuit filed by one of the organization’s…

Days after a double shooting left a man dead and a woman injured, a group of Lynchburg area community members gathered at the site of the shooting Friday evening to honor the victims and to pray for peace.

Nine months after the inaugural class of Leadership Amherst began meeting, the program is set to celebrate its first graduation May 22.

Forest resident Hope Cupit was appointed to Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration, according to a news release issued Friday.

Two by two, about 20 women walk side by side, many pushing strollers, looping the paved trails at Riverside Park on Wednesday.

In the midst the $40 million first phase of expansion of Liberty University’s Williams Stadium, LU announced Friday in a news release it plans to also upgrade and expand the Arthur L. Williams Football Operations Center.

The Lynchburg Target on Wards Road is currently under renovation, and the remodeling will include a new Starbucks to open in June or early July.

HIGHLAND COUNTY — In this corner of the George Washington National Forest, the slope rises sharply from the bank of a briskly bubbling stream about a mile from the West Virginia line.

The Virginian Hotel has announced it will begin accepting guest reservations beginning May 15.

A new natural products retailer will open in Forest later this month.