RICHMOND — Liberty University is thinking about building its own electricity-generating plant after its utility bill went up 40 percent last fall, Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said Monday.

A year ago, David Edmondson couldn’t walk 20 feet without losing his breath and having to sit down.

Liberty University students each will pay $540 less for tuition in the 2009-10 school year than the school originally had planned to charge.

Lynchburg City Council has given up a long-held right-of-way across the Liberty University campus, at the school’s request.

Lynchburg City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday on the future of Ericsson Drive, a short public street found on the Liberty University campus, next to the LaHaye Ice Center.

A city man accused of threatening the life of Jerry Falwell Jr. and sending threatening e-mails to a reporter for The News & Advance was released Tuesday afternoon after pleading guilty to the charges.

Berkley Carter Mills, 56, of the 600 block of Reusens Road, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of stalking reporter Chris Dumond, as well as two felony counts of making threats of death or bodily injury by letter against Jerry Falwell Jr. and Dumond.

Liberty University students Brian Diaz and Joel Krautter spent most of election night glued to a big-screen TV, watching restlessly as the returns poured in over a period of hours.

Diaz, 18, and Krautter, 20, did not keep this anxious vigil in a dorm room or student lounge. Nor did they gather at the Vines Center, where thousands of their classmates congregated to watch the results and enjoy music and food courtesy of the school.

Liberty University buses today are scheduled to make more than 120 trips to the voting precinct at Heritage Elementary School as part of the college’s plans for Election Day.

Mike Huckabee, John McCain’s opponent earlier this year for the Republican presidential nomination, urged people at Thomas Road Baptist Church on Sunday to vote with their values concerning abortion, marriage and a low-tax economy.

Liberty University on Wednesday announced that it has established a full-service university publishing company.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will speak at Liberty University today on behalf of Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.

More than 90 percent of Liberty University School of Law graduates who took the Virginia State Bar examination this year passed the test, according to figures released by the school this week.

Bond was denied for a man accused of threatening the life of Jerry Falwell Jr. and sending threatening e-mails to a reporter for The News & Advance.

For aviation students who have concentrated on airplanes, flying a helicopter is a whole new experience.

The first Bible was handwritten.