A new chapter opened for Mecklenburg County Public Schools on Thursday with a ribbon cutting for the newly rebuilt and upgraded Clarksville Elementary School. CES Principal Dominique Sturdifen ...

Douglas Hinman of South Hill will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars after the 69-year-old defendant was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for killing his wife, Jackie Hinman, in a ...

Trishaun Murphy of Chase City was sentenced last week to 35 years in prison for sexually molesting a 15-year old girl at his ...

Amish family members aboard a horse-drawn wagon suffered minor injuries after the buggy was hit by a car on Route 1 in Brunswick County last week. According to Virginia State Police, the Amish horse ...

I awoke abruptly the other night from what my Mom used to call “sweet dreams” that had turned instead into scary nightmares of the political sort: Images and stories conjured up from the dark recesses ...

Why do I need a knife or scissors to open just about everything anymore? Even the plastic on garlic at the grocery store. (Why does garlic need a plastic wrapper anyway?) In opera, the tenor always ...

It’s a chaotic news scene these days. Hard to know where to focus. The dollar is down. Inflation is up. Trump continues to levy tariffs even after a U.S. court specifically designated by Congress to ...

We are excited to announce an upcoming event titled “Meet the Candidates,” featuring state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, candidate for lieutenant governor, and Earnadette Powell-Farrar, candidate for the ...

Two injured boaters were transported to VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill on Saturday following a boat collision on Kerr Lake near the Rudd’s Creek area. According to the Virginia ...

The search continues for two suspects who led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen vehicle Saturday, ending with a car crash in Boydton and the suspects escaping on foot. The pursuit began in ...

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office is actively investigating a series of property crimes reported from July 23-26. These incidents, most of which occurred in the Clarksville-Buffalo ...