Free-throw shooting was a struggle early in the season for the Appomattox boys basketball team. The Raiders have found their groove from the charity stripe, though, in recent games, and that proved huge in a Dogwood District showdown with Dan River Wednesday night.

The Raiders hit big free throws down the stretch and held off the Wildcats 67-63 to move into a tie for first in the Dogwood standings.

A structure on land in Appomattox that will be leased to the Museum of the Confederacy is not the Civil War-era log cabin officials previously thought.

A letter sent last month by outgoing Rep. Virgil Goode, R-5th District, asked members of Congress to consider federal economic stimulus money for the proposed Appomattox water line.

An Appomattox man died Monday afternoon after a two-vehicle accident on U.S. 460 in the Spout Spring area of Appomattox County.

Gas is now flowing at full pressure in the natural gas pipeline that ruptured just north of the town of Appomattox in September.

Appomattox County resident Nina Beasley had a quick answer when asked recently what she’d do if the Town of Appomattox ever annexed her property.

FABER — At 6:30 each morning, the 15 monastic residents at the Synchronicity Foundation, a spiritual community in Nelson County, emerge from their small brown trailers to walk the mountain.

The first face-to-face discussion Wednesday between Appomattox county and town officials regarding a proposed waterline resulted in a long list of issues that need to be hashed out before any agreement could be approached.

The company that operates a natural gas pipeline that ruptured in September just north of the town of Appomattox received federal approval Wednesday to resume flowing gas through the line.

The president of area engineering firm Hurt & Proffitt Inc. urged the Appomattox County Board of Supervisors on Monday to start thinking about potential infrastructure projects that could be put together quickly.

APPOMATTOX — Outside corrosion caused the rupture and subsequent explosion in September of a natural gas pipeline just north of the town of Appomattox.

The natural gas pipeline that exploded just north of Appomattox in September is on the cusp of returning to service.

The natural gas pipeline that exploded just north of Appomattox in September is in the final stages of testing and the company that runs it hopes to restore operation soon.

APPOMATTOX — Appomattox County supervisors want the school board to compile a multi-year timeline for millions of dollars of needed repairs and renovations to county schools.

This Christmas, military families in Illinois will celebrate with Christmas trees grown in Appomattox County.