Two forums will give Amherst County residents an opportunity to express their thoughts about the county’s next fiscal year budget.

Snow has delayed the Amherst County Public Schools Education Foundation fundraiser luncheon, which was scheduled for Friday and now will be held at noon Feb. 19 at Winton Country Club.

Two men were each sentenced to more than a decade in in prison Wednesday for their roles in an armed Madison Heights home invasion.

Six residents approached Amherst board members at their meeting Tuesday to weigh in on whether the board should loosen rental inspection rules in Madison Heights.

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The projected Amherst County Public Schools deficit for the next fiscal year is now $3.1 million, the superintendent told school board members Thursday night.

Authorities have arrested a second person in connection with an 8-month-old boy suffering burns on New Year’s Eve.

The 84 Lumber store in Madison Heights is opening again and bringing 12 jobs with it.

At 69, Leon Parrish is officially retired. He bid goodbye to his 31-year career at a Lynchburg manufacturing company more than a decade ago, and last month ended his 16-year run on the Amherst County Board of Supervisors.

The last two defendants in a May home invasion in Madison Heights pleaded guilty in Amherst County Circuit Court on Monday.

Local college officials say they’re working to shore up security as authorities accuse an Amherst County man of breaking into dormitories in a string of indecent exposure incidents in October.

In 2007, Jeff Bibb attended Dixon’s Gun Makers Fair in Kempton, Pa., with a friend.

Virginia recognized its Native American tribes in 1983, and they have lobbied for federal recognition for 10 years.

The Amherst County Board of Supervisors announced Tuesday that Lee Lintecum will serve as the new county administrator.

A wreck in Madison Heights on Friday afternoon sent an Amherst County Schools bus driver to the hospital as a precaution after a pickup truck collided with her bus, state police said.