D-Day Memorial staff estimated that more than six thousand visitors flocked to the site Saturday for the largest gathering in several years.

Four pieces of Lynchburg Fire Department history are slowly crumbling under a canopy of trees in the Presbyterian Cemetery.

At Old City Cemetery, Civil War reenactors honor the fallen.

Falling water generates its own breeze at the foot of Crabtree Falls in Nelson County, cool proof that May’s rains have recharged Central Virginia’s creeks after two dry years.

Check out scenes from Saturday’s gathering of Monacan Indians and others.

‘This storm is none other than the wrath of the holy God.‘

—Chaplain Alan Farley
Preaching as Civil War reenactor

Sponsored by the Exchange Club of Lynchburg, 70 World War II veterans took a bus trip to the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico, the Arlington National Cemetery and the World War II Memorial in Washington.

From Mexico to China, people across the globe are trying their best to contain a growing epidemic.

HUDDLESTON — Smith Mountain Lake is gaining familiarity for 99 professional anglers who early Thursday morning launched into the waters for the first leg of “The Blue Ridge Brawl”— a four-day fishing tournament with a grand prize of $100,000.

The rugby match halts for Mike Eagle, a hulking ex-football player known as “Bunny.” He grimaces in pain, clutching his shoulder, which juts forward at an unnatural angle. A teammate thrusts it into place, unleashing a grunt from Eagle that seems to emanate from the bowels of Hades.

Go backstage with the artists and models at the VITA - Italian for ‘life’ - fashion show in Lynchburg.

Maybe there’s a reason why boxers - like pro wrestlers, rap artists and henchmen of Tony Soprano - bestow nicknames on themselves.

Snow photographs from the staff of the News & Advance

Check out our photographers’ latest set of their favorite pictures.

He’s dean of the college, vice president for academic affairs and a specialist in political science. But on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, you’ll find Randolph College’s Dennis Stevens teaching women how to defend themselves.