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When I pulled in with my family to a hotel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on the evening of April 15, gusty winds were whipping rain sideways with mid-30s chill as we were beginning to learn just how destructive tornadoes had been…

The heat is pulling back but the stickiness remains the remainder of this week. The chance of showers and storms is also on the increase, as disturbances slide in from the northwest and a front dances back and forth north…

Lynchburg Police Department Chief Raul Diaz announced his retirement from the force Wednesday. He is set to step down on Sept. 1, nearly three years after joining the department in 2015.

The Bedford Democratic Committee will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. June 25 in the Bedford Room of Bedford Central Library. Entrance is next to the loading dock at the rear of the building. All committee members are encouraged…

BEDFORD — Plans to build a new housing development in Bedford County have hit a stumbling block after the Bedford County Planning Commission denied recommending a developer’s request to rezone more than 90 acres near Forest to build a new…

Police are investigating a report of a rape alleged to have occurred in Riverside Park on Friday between about 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., according to a Tuesday evening news release by the Lynchburg Police Department.

Approximately $9 million in Capital Improvement funding highlights some of the spending by Bedford County in its 2018-19 fiscal year budget that will take effect July 1. The budget was adopted by a unanimous vote by the Bedford County Board…

APPOMATTOX —On Monday and Tuesday, children were given the chance to walk in the shoes of Civil War soldiers, fight in a mock battle and learn what it would be like to live in a one-room log cabin in the…

BEDFORD — One of five defendants charged in an alleged gang-related killing of a Lynchburg teen last year is scheduled for a guilty plea in Bedford County Circuit Court in September, according to a letter filed with the court and…

Lynchburg City Council announced the appointment of two new members and the re-appointment of one to the Lynchburg City School Board Tuesday afternoon.