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A woman was hospitalized Thursday morning after a train struck her vehicle outside the town of Appomattox, police said.

A week before the one-year anniversary of Tyler Bryant’s death, his mother, Martha Bryant, addressed a congressional panel on her loss after he was removed from the Central Virginia Training Center in early 2017.

MONETA — One individual died Wednesday after a vehicle ran off Stewartsville Road in Bedford County, a Virginia State Police official said.

When senior Muhammad Tahir came to the United States four years ago from Pakistan and entered Heritage High School as a freshman, he said people called him Osama.

In a field packed with left-leaning independents and Democrats, Al Billingsly is running in the upcoming May election to give conservative voters another voice on the dais at City Hall.

The Lynchburg Police Department is one step closer to having a new home on Kemper Street after the federal government gave the thumbs-up for a property transfer between the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company and the city.

The Lynchburg City School Board is considering having a medication in the division’s schools that will help reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

The Moneta YMCA will close April 30.

Virginia voters who elected a Democratic governor and nearly won control of the House of Delegates in 2017 could create another blue wave in this year's congressional races, according to a poll released Wednesday.

A Huddleston man was killed Tuesday in a Bedford County crash.