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Larry Darnell Tatum, 69, of Patrick Springs has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.

Southwest Virginia’s largest music festival is planning its return this year, which has been made easier with Virginia’s new COVID-19 guidelines.

The latest email blast from Across-the-Way Productions further confirmed a seemingly inevitable and welcome return to normal: FloydFest is going to happen on schedule this year. Tuesday’s mail was not unusual for the festival’s typical run-up pattern. On-the-Rise contest performers and local acts, plus a new “glamping” option, were in the message. But after a coronavirus summer of 2020, during which the festival was among countless events canceled due to pandemic concerns, i...

And so it’s come to this: House Democrats care so little about the poorest localities in the state that they won’t even vote on two measures intended to fix up

Get ready to jam out at one of the biggest music festivals in our region this summer.

Ex Parte Virginia was the third of three cases involving African American jury service that the Supreme Court decided on March 1, 1880. James D. Coles, a Pittsylvania County judge, was indicted on February 27, 1879, for refusing to allow African Americans to serve on juries. The federal grand juries that met in Danville and Lynchburg in February and March 1879 indicted judges from the following fourteen counties for violating the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by barring African Americans from jury s...

As of February 20, Virginia is reporting 561,812 cases of the coronavirus across the commonwealth since March 2020.

Saturday’s winter weather continues to cause thousands to lose power.

A crash has closed both directions of US-58 in Patrick County, according to the Virginia Dept. of Transportation.

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) are introducing legislation to incentivize Medicaid expansion nationwide.