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Danielle Washburn stood next to her father, Steve, just off the 18th green and watched the culmination of the 2017 Fox Puss Invitational at Boonsboro Country Club.

Campbell County-based Point Source Audio Music has reopened in a new location at 235 Progress Drive after the April 15 tornado destroyed the business’s original building off Timberlake Road.

The Amherst County School Board plans to appoint the division’s next superintendent during a specially called meeting May 14, school officials have announced.

The Altavista-based parent company of First National Bank has raised its quarterly cash dividend.

AMHERST – A Madison Heights woman convicted of running over her estranged husband while driving a minivan in an Amherst County parking lot was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison.

The April 15 tornado that moved through Lynchburg on its 25-mile-long path easily crossed the James River, in fact intensifying on the other side as it moved into Amherst County.

A multi-vehicle crash has closed the northbound lanes of U.S. 29 near English Tavern Road in Campbell County, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

The parents of a Chatham football player suspended last year emerged with joyful tears in their eyes from a two-hour long closed session with the Pittsylvania County School Board on Tuesday evening.

Lynchburg City Council approved a fiscal year 2019 budget that does not include any tax increases after a set of contentious discussions during its regular meeting Tuesday night.

Lynchburg City Schools Superintendent Crystal Edwards proposed a reorganization of division positions to the Lynchburg City School Board and a packed boardroom Tuesday evening that could save about $300,000.