An Appomattox County social services employee was convicted Tuesday of forging checks drawn from the state agency’s accounts.

APPOMATTOX — Fifty dogs seized from a Spout Spring woman became the property of Appomattox County after a judge ruled Wednesday that they were not being properly cared for.

The last of three natural gas pipelines that run through Appomattox County is being returned to full service today — 237 days after one line exploded, injuring five people, leveling two homes and damaging about 100 other houses.

The recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling against the city of Lynchburg could have immediate and long-term impacts on local government budgets statewide.

The town of Appomattox has a new town manager: Bart Van Nieuwenhuise.

Two projects at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park will be completed thanks to $172,000 in federal stimulus money.

Appomattox town officials have one more shot to partner with the county on a water line project, according to a letter sent this week from Board of Supervisors chairman Tom Conrad.

Area mapping databases will soon be upgraded and linked thanks to almost $800,000 in grants from the Virginia Wireless E-911 Board. Area public safety agencies also received grant money for various projects.

Visitors to the historic Appomattox Court House National Park this weekend may have felt like they took a trip back in time.

Dozens of dogs were taken from a commercial breeder in the Spout Spring area of Appomattox County on Wednesday night, according to county and state authorities.

Appomattox County supervisors have decided to start the process of forming a public service authority to manage the county’s planned water system.

Confederate soldiers will surrender in Appomattox, not once, but twice, nextweekend at a re-enactment at the national park.

An Appomattox man accused in the Thanksgiving Day slaying of his daughter’s boyfriend was indicted this week by a county grand jury.

Another town of Appomattox wastewater treatment plant has a metal problem, this time with high amounts of zinc in water discharged from the Water Reclamation Facility.

In Will Simmons’ eyes, tourism in the town of Appomattox long has been a jewel in the rough. The name recognition, he said, is on par with Gettysburg — a site that sees more than a million visitors a year.