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A Democratic candidate for Congress in the district of retiring Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte is asking the Lynchburg prosecutor to investigate another Democratic candidate and the local party chairwoman over their handling of the process for candidates to get on…

RUSTBURG — An overnight standoff with Campbell County law enforcement in June led to a three-and-a-half-year sentence for a man convicted of maliciously firing a gun in his home.

AMHERST — A Lynchburg man who was convicted of assaulting jail guards will spend four more years behind bars on top of time he’s already serving from a drunken-driving crash that killed a woman.

The Wharton Memorial Foundation, a neighbor of the Bedford Central Library in the town of Bedford, has found a way to marry its two loves — books and flowers — to create a children’s storybook garden in the Wharton Garden…

A downtown developer plans to open condominiums next summer.

Framatome’s North American corporate headquarters are in Lynchburg as of today.

Kegney Brothers, an Irish-style pub and restaurant on Main Street in Lynchburg, has been closed.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Most Virginia nurse practitioners could gain the autonomy to practice without a physician's oversight if Gov. Ralph Northam signs a bill the General Assembly passed with near-unanimous support.

When Chuck Moran was 11 years old, he traveled from Charlottesville to Lynchburg with his family to listen to a speech from civil rights activist the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at E.C. Glass High School on March 27, 1962.

RUSTBURG — The Campbell County Board of Supervisors is keeping county staff busy after requesting County Administrator Frank Rogers and his team to look into several issues — including hiring a commercial real estate agent to market 302 acres of…