The National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford is eliminating nearly half its staff as it approaches a winter expected to produce “very modest revenue,” according to the foundation’s president.

BEDFORD — Two days after President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu virus a national emergency, the Bedford County Board of Supervisors took a look Monday at the local response.

BEDFORD — Charges against four Lynchburg men accused in a drug-related August home invasion near Goode will be heard by a Bedford County grand jury next month.

A bill authorizing the Department of the Interior to study the National D-Day Memorial’s potential to join the National Park Service now is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature.

As the skies darkened over Bedford on Thursday night, two figures from the past, but very much still in the present, took their places beside a teletype machine from 1944.

For the first time in its nearly 40-year history, the Bedford County Public Service Authority will offer a discount for connecting to existing water lines.

The trial of a Bedford County man accused of murdering his estranged wife and trying to make it look like a suicide has been delayed for a fourth time.

A Bedford County man died after flipping his truck on Virginia 24 Wednesday night, police said.

The city of Bedford collected nearly 24,000 pounds of old com-puters, TVs, printers and other electronics during an electronic waste recycling event earlier this month.

Bedford County has launched a new Web site to promote its office of economic development.

BEDFORD — Bedford County’s director of economic development is set to retire at the end of this month, but the county still plans to find a replacement, despite an ongoing hiring freeze.

A Bedford man was sentenced to eight months in jail Tuesday after being convicted of assault and battery of a city police officer.

This was perhaps the one public occasion when former Lynchburg Mayor Jimmie Bryan was guilty of not being optimistic enough. After he helped celebrate the groundbreaking of the city’s first Habitat house with a stab of his gold-plated ceremonial shovel on Dec. 1, 1988, Bryan (known for his cheery pronouncement, “It’s great to be alive and living in Lynchburg, Virginia”) told onlookers: “Let’s get behind this. Let’s build 20 houses.” Little did he know. Just over two decades later, the Greater Lynchburg Habitat chapter has surged far beyond Bryan’s expectations — 270 completed dwellings, including two Habitat subdivisions.

The National Park Service isn’t comparing the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford to any other sites or monuments while it evaluates the memorial’s potential for receiving federal support.

BEDFORD — The only thing about State Sen. Creigh Deeds that wasn’t dampened Saturday afternoon was his enthusiasm.