With donations down and demand for meals increasing, a local soup kitchen is going beyond its typical fundraising methods by organizing a piano concert.

Randy Simpson recently closed Milwaukee Iron, his Lynchburg machine shop known around the nation for its custom Harley-style choppers, due to the recession. On Thursday, North Carolina-based Asset Sales Inc. auctioned the company’s building and equipment.

Meals on Wheels Inc. of the Greater Lynchburg Area will mark 35 years of service to the community with an anniversary celebration Sept. 20.

Back-to-back services will be held Monday for the Lynchburg-area teens found shot dead this week at a Montgomery County campground.

A Gladys woman was sentenced to two years probation in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg on Wednesday after earlier pleading guilty to misappropriating postal service funds.

The first meeting of a support group for Lewy Body Dementia is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. today.

BEDFORD — An Appomattox man was sentenced to three months in jail Wednesday morning after pleading guilty to driving drunk in a May wreck that injured a Lynchburg prosecutor and killed her dog.

Orlando DeSean Harvey, 24, was found in the 1700 block of Floyd Street when the Lynchburg Police Department responded to a report of a shooting just before 6 p.m. on Aug. 18.

Police are investigating what they believe to be prescription fraud at the Target pharmacy on Wards Road early Sunday afternoon.

Lynchburg is reminding residents to purchase new trash cart decals. All current decals expire Sept. 30. Replacements will be available for purchase in September and October for $40 (32-gallon cart) and $80 (64-gallon cart).

In a stunt that could come straight from a James Bond movie, professional skydiver Jim McCormick will parachute jump from an airplane over Candlers Mountain on Saturday, and, if all goes as planned, land on Liberty University’s Snowflex ski slope.

Bob McDonnell brought his gubernatorial campaign to Lynchburg on Friday, urging donors and campaign activists to help in a race where a president, sitting governor and national labor unions are supporting his opponent.

The YMCA of Central Virginia presented more than 200 local children with free backpacks stuffed with school supplies Friday as part of the YMCA’s annual “Bright Beginnings” program.

The annual listing of “America’s Best Colleges” has given new bragging rights to Virginia schools.

Around the area, college students are moving into their dormitories, some meeting their roomates for the first time. Following is a list of local college move-in dates.