Nelson County’s Crabtree Falls tragically claimed another life Saturday afternoon, despite the ominous warnings that dot the cliffs and waterfall cascades in the area.

BEDFORD — A town home development on Perrowville Road was narrowly approved by the Bedford County Board of Supervisors on Monday night.

BEDFORD — A zoning change that would let Bedford County officials more vigorously regulate short-term rentals at Smith Mountain Lake stalled Monday.

The public right of way for a new road linking Wards Ferry Road and Leesville Road was unanimously adopted Monday by the Campbell County Planning Commission.

RICHMOND — Families of those killed in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech would receive $100,000 each under a settlement proposed by the state to prevent lawsuits, according to a relative of a Virginia Tech victim who received a copy of the proposal.

A fire left an Altavista couple homeless Monday morning.

City Council will debate the possibility of changing how Lynchburg School Board members are selected today.

Ellie Ball and Dottie McDermott won first place in the Duplicate Bridge Inter Club Championship Game on March 17. The event was held at 19 bridge clubs across the United States and Canada. The pair beat 505 other pairs who played the same arrangement of cards in each hand.

Kylin Cardwell’s skills on the basketball court have taken the 12 year old and his youth teams to games and tournaments in four different states.

Workers are installing more than seven miles of water line along Smith Mountain Lake, in one of Bedford County’s largest ongoing utility projects.

A Randolph College freshman died in a car wreck in North Carolina on Thursday.

An unidentified man died after being struck by a car Saturday night on U.S. 460 in Campbell County, according to Virginia State Police.

Bedford County officials are reviewing proposals tonight for more planned residential growth along one of the busiest roads in Forest.

What started as a small brush fire Saturday afternoon quickly turned into trouble for a Lynchburg apartment complex, displacing six families.

Deputy Joe Flamini was handed a lot of scrap in his first week with the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office.

If all the proposed development occurs along the U.S. 29 corridor in northern Campbell County, sewer lines serving the area could reach capacity in the next 10 years.

The relationship between Virginia’s cities and state government is about to change, if Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s ideas gain acceptance in the General Assembly.

The Lynchburg Police Department, faced with an ongoing challenge in minority recruitment, is hoping a $15,000 grant will give those efforts a boost.

Our lives are sprinkled with moments, big and small, that take us out of our daily routines and make us feel alive. The rush of wind on our cheeks as we ride a bike for the first time. The last hug before going off to college. The unfamiliar smell of a new apartment.

Other moments prompt us to mark the passage of time. We consider what has come before and what lies ahead. The sight of a child walking down the aisle to be wed. No longer setting the alarm clock after retirement.

A 16-year-old was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged in the shooting of another teenager, police said.

Three more potential victims of a Lynchburg man who prosecutors say was posing as a doctor came forward Friday after news reports, Common-wealth’s Attorney Mike Doucette said.

The fish kills may be back.

A previously convicted sex offender was sentenced to 13 years in prison Friday after being convicted of taking indecent liberties with a minor and for failing to register as a sex offender.

For the second time in a week, an area resident was killed in a deer-related wreck.

A bronzed figure stands in the classic hands-clasped-behind-the-back pose of the stoic trooper.

A teens-only version of the Community Dialogue on Race and Racism will take place the first weekend in April.

The dozen Randolph College Nursery School students sat cross-legged in a circle around Gretchen Gotthard.

A Spanish-speaking attorney was appointed to what became the defense team for Adolfo Valentin-Morales on Friday morning.

Stacy Lam Doss, 31, was thrown from the car she was riding in when the driver swerved to avoid a deer, police said.