A crowd attended the pubic hearing at Eagle Rock Elementary School, hosted by the Virginia Department of Transportation.

State authorities have identified the man who drowned in Smith Mountain Lake near Penhook on Tuesday as James Lavender, 54, of Roanoke.

Drakar Rawlings has been sentenced to nearly 30 years after he was held responsible for a child found with a gun in their backpack at Orange Elementary School.

JIM THORPE, Pa. - Firefighters continue battling a large brush fire in Carbon County. Crews said more than 450 acres have burned and resources are being brought in from all over the state to help ...