Members of the Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority, along with a number of local officials, gathered Friday for the official groundbreaking of the Amherst County Adult Detention Center in Madison Heights.

Deer are a common sight across Central Virginia but state game officials and hunters are trying to keep their numbers down.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - An undertaking that is transforming a 19th-century Charlottesville church into a day shelter for the homeless is nearly completed.

The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign will be more than a drop in the bucket this year.

ROME — A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.

CHATHAM — Dennis Lee Daniel fidgeted on the witness stand as he answered questions Friday in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.

As a high school student, Ricky Bomar was saving people’s lives.

Something is killing livestock in Pittsylvania County. On one farm near Renan, nine calves were found dead last week — bringing the number of cattle killed there in the past year to 16. No one is sure who or what delivered them to their deaths.

An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.

The trial of a Lynchburg woman accused of running a house of prostitution on Garfield Avenue was delayed Friday when her lawyer said a doctor has judged her mentally incompetent.