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Before Ramadan started on May 16, Sarah Rauf, an 18-year-old student at Virginia Commonwealth University, worried she’d be too weary from her coursework to take additional classes over the summer.

A fire tore through a James Crossing Apartments building Saturday morning, displacing about 12 families, injuring one and forcing two to jump to safety from their third floor apartment.

MADISON HEIGHTS —This wasn’t their plan.

The Lynchburg Police Department announced seven people have been charged following a month-long undercover drug sting targeting street level drug distributors.

Two local residents have been appointed to Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration this month.

Staff members with the American Red Cross Blood Donation Center were busy Friday moving to their new location in Campbell County so they could continue collecting platelets when they open the site today.

Helped along by an additional $200,000 from the state, Nelson County’s just-passed 2018-19 budget will include 2 percent salary increases for school division employees and a $47,000 boost to the sheriff’s office pay scale.

In 1999, the black infant death rate in Lynchburg was 29.4 per 1,000 births, according to data from the Virginia Department of Health. The white infant death rate that same year was 4.3 per 1,000 births.

Those looking to take action in addressing Lynchburg’s 24 percent poverty rate have a new way of matching their skills to the city’s needs.

A woman was seriously injured after her vehicle overturned on U.S. 460 in Appomattox County Friday, according to the Virginia State Police.