It’s a policy that may or may not come to fruition in Amherst County, based on officials’ mixed reaction.

Constructing the new Amherst County Adult Detention Center in Madison Heights will cost about $13 million less than expected.

Amherst County officials could accept a bid today for sidewalk improvements in Madison Heights.

A late-night fire in Madison Heights severely damaged a home off Main Street on Friday night, according to county authorities.

Jason Aigeldinger’s death last year has mystified his family, and they have erected a billboard alongside U.S. 29 in Madison Heights near Virginia 130 to ask witnesses to help them find an answer.

Madison Heights businessman Jeff Price lifted the curtain on his campaign for the House of Delegates on Monday with a news release criticizing Del. Ben Cline’s vote against an unemployment insurance bill last week.

Investigators looking for escaped inmate Larry Wayne Dodson Jr. have filed a search warrant seeking account records at a Madison Heights bank.

The investigation of a shooting in a Madison Heights shopping center on Friday that left a man in critical condition and a deputy on administrative leave is now waiting on ballistics and other lab tests to move forward.

AMHERST — A former Amherst County firefighter who charged more than $4,500 in fuel for his personal vehicle to the Monelison Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad was sentenced to two years probation Wednesday morning.

A Madison Heights man accused of robbing three people in a Lynchburg apartment at gunpoint pleaded guilty to reduced charges Tuesday morning in Lynchburg Circuit Court.

State investigators are still looking into accusations that gas stations broke the law in September by raising their prices suddenly two months ago.

That’s when oil refineries in the Gulf Coast shut down to prepare for landfall of Hurricane Ike.

The U.S. Department of Justice has notified the Central Virginia Training Center that the facility will be investigated for possible violations of residents’ civil rights.

A California man who has purchased several historic buildings in Lynchburg now is interested in reviving a former school building in Madison Heights.