Steve Lloyd said he is one step closer to closure after a guilty plea this week from his cousin, whose financial fraud scheme nearly cost Lloyd his company and brought his world crashing down around him.

Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, recently issued a news release touting a $500,000 earmark he requested in an appropriations bill for a Halifax County wastewater treatment plant. Perriello, however, voted against that bill in June.

In the wake of an assistant fire marshal’s retirement and an increasing number of fire investigations, Campbell County’s Board of Supervisors recently approved a budget amendment to transfer funds for the hiring of a part-time assistant fire marshal.

An Amherst County man accused of breaking into two college dormitories and exposing himself to women was denied bond for a third time in two weeks in Lynchburg Circuit Court on Friday morning.

Virginia Episcopal School will have a new headmaster next year.

Three area law enforcement agencies are searching for an Amherst County man who is considered dangerous.

A man was charged with reckless driving Friday after rear-ending a school bus on Wards Ferry Road at the intersection with Timberlake Road, Captain Brandon Zuidema of the Lynchburg Police Department said.

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An Amherst County man accused of multiple incidents of indecent exposure in Lynchburg was denied bond for the third time in two weeks this morning.

Flulike illness in the state appeared to decline last week, but deaths caused by the H1N1 flu continue to rise.

The Lynchburg Redevelopment & Housing Authority is considering hiring a real estate agent to help it market several historic, but damaged, buildings it owns along the Fifth Street corridor.

On a busy corner of Fifth Street, a cold black expanse of glass has suddenly sprouted a plump, cheerful flower.

A 2,000-plus acre farm in Nelson County valued at $15.5 million filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to go up for public auction on the steps of the Lovingston courthouse.

A Bedford County man was arrested Thursday on multiple sex charges involving children, the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

A $1.2 trillion health care bill set for debate in the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday is facing a significant bipartisan attack, said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th District, in a conference call on Thursday.

Central Virginia Community College broke ground Thursday on its new culinary arts building, Seven Hills Hall, a $2.4 million facility that will open to students next fall.

The Greater Lynchburg Transit Company is being applauded by state transportation officials after winning a national award for excellence earlier this year.

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

The legal war between former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean and pageant organizers is over.

RICHMOND — Gov. Timothy Kaine will return to teaching at the University of Richmond after his four-year term ends in January.

The Virginia attorney general’s office said yesterday that there is no evidence John Allen Muhammad’s lawyers had reason to think he was mentally ill when he asked to represent himself at his 2003 trial.

The 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Brigade Combat Team has received orders to enter active duty in January, the Virginia National Guard said in a news release.

Lynchburg City Manager Kimball Payne got some unexpected news when he went to the polls on Tuesday: he was no longer listed as a valid city voter.

The short-term future of the City Council seat currently held by Scott Garrett will rest in the hands of his fellow City Council members.

Del. Shannon Valentine conceded the Lynchburg House of Delegates seat to Republican Scott Garrett on Wednesday after a canvass of the votes showed little change in Garrett’s slim lead in their race Tuesday.

LYNCHBURG — While sentencing a Lynchburg man to three years in prison for his involvement in a $450,000 Ponzi and tax-fraud scheme Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon offered a stiff rebuke.

LYNCHBURG — Lynchburg College and Centra Health received a $200,000 grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission for a health simulation lab that will provide medical training for local students and health care practitioners.

Longtime Lynchburg Exchange Club member Lawrence Bryant explains the club’s annual Pancake Jamboree this way: “It’s like the circus. We come in, set up, do our show, and then tear it all down again.”

Representatives for both incumbent Shannon Valentine and City Council member Scott Garrett were present for the canvass, which is expected to take all day. Garrett edged Valentine by a 210-vote margin in unofficial returns Tuesday night.