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The Lynchburg-based parent company of Bank of the James reported Friday a 48 percent jump in profit for the first quarter.

Ladle & Blade Kitchen Supply Co., a kitchen supply company, has opened a showroom in Amherst County. The showroom offers unique kitchen items including cutlery, pots, pans, catering supplies, kitchen gadgets, pottery, tea, coffee and gift items.

Nathan McGlothlin describes spending time in a local record store as having a “sense of belonging and identity.”

A new tornado has been confirmed to have hit a stretch of Campbell County southeast of Rustburg on Sunday.

Rustburg High School administrators discovered an unloaded weapon in a vehicle after a routine search of the building’s parking lot Friday, according to the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office.

AMHERST – A Madison Heights man and former Liberty University police officer was sentenced to two years in jail Friday after entering Alford pleas in a sexual battery case involving two minor girls in Amherst County.

A Madison Heights woman was hospitalized Wednesday after a two-vehicle collision caused her car to overturn on Virginia 130 in Amherst County, police said.

So much for April showers.

A tornado with a maximum wind speed of 90 mph struck about five miles outside Rustburg on Sunday, the National Weather Service said in a preliminary report Thursday night.

This is not the first time a large tree has crashed through Anne McVeigh’s house, but this week, almost three days passed before it could be lifted out of her son’s bedroom.