A former Hardy Volunteer Fire Department firefighter pleaded guilty this morning to embezzling thousands of dollars from the department.

A mother charged in the death of her baby faces a judge on an unrelated drug charge.

BEDFORD — A developer’s plan to build attached homes in a neighborhood taking shape at Smith Mountain Lake received approval from Bedford County planners Monday.

BEDFORD — A proposed hospice that has received community support over the past several years will locate on an acre of Bedford County land on Falling Creek Road.

The Bedford County School Board is set to begin reviewing a proposed student discipline policy Thursday night that would give the school superintendent greater flexibility to hear cases.

After three years of fundraising that resulted in nearly $2 million, a planned hospice in Bedford may have a new place to call home Thursday night.

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.