A Pittsylvania County woman whose son drowned at Smith Mountain Lake State Park has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the state and several other defendants.

A Chatham man charged with first-degree murder was denied bond Friday after a prosecutor appealed an earlier bond set by a general district court judge.

A 2-year-old boy was killed in a four-wheeler accident off Waller Lane in the Dry Fork area of Pittsylvania County.

A Dry Fork man died after he was ejected from the SUV he was driving, which then hit another car head-on in Pittsylvania County on Tuesday night, according to Virginia State Police.

One of the drivers involved in a two-vehicle wreck Thursday morning died, according to a Danville Police Department news release.

Virginia’s uranium mining study has gotten the green light — but with conditions — from the National Research Council’s Governing Board Executive Committee.

Devin Wayne Kirby, 16, died after his car hit a tree off Shula Drive in Pittsylvania County.

The nine calves that were found dead two weeks ago on a farm near Renan died of natural causes, according to County Administrator Dan Sleeper.

CHATHAM — Dennis Lee Daniel fidgeted on the witness stand as he answered questions Friday in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court.

Something is killing livestock in Pittsylvania County. On one farm near Renan, nine calves were found dead last week — bringing the number of cattle killed there in the past year to 16. No one is sure who or what delivered them to their deaths.