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With safety being Campbell County Public Schools’ top priority, the Campbell County School Board is trying to bring more School Resource Officers into the schools.

Eight E.C. Glass High School students dressed in gray and maroon stood on the school auditorium stage reading off the names of the 17 victims of the Feb. 14 Parkland, Florida, shooting with a moment of silence after each Wednesday…

Attorneys for defendants potentially facing the death penalty or life in prison in the case of a Lynchburg teen killed last year are seeking more time and funding in order to provide their clients with adequate due process.

A Campbell County grand jury returned a number of indictments Monday, among them indictments stemming from a killing last summer and a fight in the fall.

The Lynchburg Planning Commission voted Wednesday to recommend approval for HumanKind to rezone 47 acres of its 166-acre property from residential to institutional in order to fit its current mission of serving the community through ventures like a day care…

A judge signed off earlier this week on a five-year sentence for a Bedford woman convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of her brother.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will hold a design public hearing to discuss a $7.8 million project on Route 682, Woody’s Lake Road, in Amherst County from 4 to 6 p.m. April 5 at the Monelison Middle School Gymnasium at…

What appears to be the last snowstorm of the winter has come and gone, but not before causing some minor headaches for Lynchburg-area drivers.

Lynchburg police said two people arrested after an armed standoff in Roanoke on Wednesday stole a vehicle at gunpoint in Lynchburg’s Winston Ridge neighborhood Tuesday night.

Lynchburg Water Resources will be conducting water main valve maintenance on 12th Street near the intersection of Monroe Street today through 6 a.m. Thursday, according to a news release from the department.