The Virginia League of Conservation Voters rated 140 General Assembly members’ votes on conservation-related issues this year, giving a perfect score to Del. Shannon Valentine, D-Lynchburg.

Three months after a gas station robbery left a clerk shot in the head and a community outraged, a Lynchburg man who prosecutors called the mastermind in the crime pleaded guilty Monday.

Several area private colleges hope to take advantage of federal money from the recently approved 21st Century GI Bill to discount tuition for veterans.

Despite temperatures in the high 80s, hours walking inner-city streets, and the general awkwardness of going door-to-door asking for opinions on community problems, participants in Lynchburg’s first “Love Walk” made the impact they hoped for.

A 17-year-old Lynchburg boy accused of being the getaway driver in two robberies — one of which involved the shooting of a gas station clerk in April — pleaded guilty in Lynchburg Circuit Court on Friday morning.
Jacob Hudson pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and one count of aggravated malicious wounding.

Homes are selling slowly in nearly all parts of Virginia, but the Lynchburg area’s prices are holding up stronger than many other regions, according to data from the Virginia Association of Realtors.

The pending replacement of the D Street bridge is leading to renewed calls for safety fencing, which advocates say can both prevent accidents and deter
suicides.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Hurricane Dolly barreled into South Texas on Wednesday, lashing the coast with winds up to 100 mph and dumping heavy rain that flooded some low-lying areas but spared levees along the heavily populated Rio Grande Valley.

The owner of a defunct Lynchburg gas station is working with the state to clean up the aftermath of a fuel leak first discovered in 2006.

The soon-to-be-vacated Juvenile & Domestic Relations courthouse will be a subject of study in coming months.

Lynchburg police are investigating an armed robbery and an attempted robbery that occurred within half an hour of each other Saturday morning.

GREENSBORO, Ga. — There aren’t any reminders in Jim Grobe’s Wake Forest office of his time at Liberty High School. No game balls. No pictures. Those are tucked away safely in his home.
He likes to keep his workspace decked out in black and gold out of loyalty to his current head coaching job.
But he certainly is fond of his time in Bedford.

Liberty University announced plans Monday to add something new to the view of Candlers Mountain: a year-round ski slope.

When Nataly North-Lowder needed something, she always knew where to turn: her former teacher and close friend Jan Petrus Bosman.
Bosman, the former artistic director of the Virginia School for the Arts in Lynchburg, died Saturday.
“He never let me down,” said North-Lowder, director of the summer intensive dance program at the Jordan Academy of Dance at Indiana’s Butler University.

A Lynchburg boy is in critical condition after riding his bicycle into the side of a moving vehicle Monday night, according to the Lynchburg Police Department.