Elizabeth Edwards plans to speak out against Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s health plan at an event in Richmond.

Police arrested two Danville men Monday night and charged them with shooting into mobile homes near Westover Drive.

Unnecessary prescription of antibodies helps create resistant bacteria strains

Pittsylvania County hopes to attract a hybrid automobile manufacturer

A Fire/Rescue Advisory Board will establish rules for operating the rescue pay service

The Gerald B. James Library is posting old photos from the archives in its Rockingham County Historical Collections room. The online photos, numbering about 30, are a small taste of the library’s archived collection of at least 10,000. “We’ve got more photos than we know what to do with,” Michael Rose, the public services librarian, said.

A Danville police sergeant is on administrative leave after he was arrested last week and charged with assault by the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office.

Through Friday, staff members of the Gerald B. James Library at Rockingham Community College will host the annual book sale on the library’s main floor.

Eric Daniel Early, 26, was found guilty in Rockingham County Superior Court last week of first-degree arson, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting a public officer.

Eden police have made an arrest following the stabbing of three people Sunday night near Fieldcrest Road and Delaware Ave.

The center will provide gallery and exhibition space for the arts and industry; flexible space for workshops, seminars, and meetings; affordable, quality office space for nonprofit organizations; and a performing arts center for cultural events to enrich community life, the release said.

Reidsville police arrested a local man accused of robbing an elderly woman in her home Saturday afternoon.  Gene Hearn, 44, of 1125 Lawsonville Ave. in Reidsville, was arrested without incident two blocks from his home.

Reidsville police say they caught a local man in the act of taking copper wire from the fenced yard at Duke Energy at 2119 Freeway Drive.

If you haven’t registered to vote in the November election, you have only hours left to do so.

Classic cars grace Cruise-In on Main Street in Danville
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Officials hear pros and cons of patients being transported to hospital of their choice

County officials hope to establish a county-wide billing system for ambulance services.

CROP Walk organizers weren’t disappointed Saturday by the number of people who showed up to fight hunger.

After 28 years of evolution, the Callands Autumn Potpourri Festival now draws hundreds of vendors and crowds of as many as 20,000 people from all over the southern sections of Virginia.
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Milton A. Reid visited Danville Saturday night and was presented with a key to the city by Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders during the annual Freedom Fund Banquet of the Danville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Local businessmen agree the federal government is right to institute some form of financial aid package to reignite the stalled economy. But those businessmen who shared their opinions the same day Congress and the president approved a $700 billion bailout weren’t willing to give leaders everything they were asking for to pass the deal.

Register of Deeds Rebecca Cipriani’s 10-year project to digitize land records and make them available to the public is to bear fruit this week.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden won’t be making his planned campaign stops in Virginia on Sunday.

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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has reappointed a Pittsylvania County woman to a state board.

The Danville Fire Department says the cause of a house fire late Friday morning on Edmonds Street was caused by an iron that wasn’t turned off.

Organizers hope to see a few hundred people take part in Danville’s first Crop Walk, set for today. The event will benefit God’s Storehouse and help with efforts to fight hunger worldwide, Beth Bauman, chief organizer and youth minister at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, said Friday.

The state’s $3 billion budget shortfall will affect K-12 school budgets at some point, even if they survive the 2008-09 school year unscathed.

On Tuesday, one of the few doctors in the area who serves underinsured patients received a letter from Danville Regional Medical Center informing him that after 14 years, his services were no longer required. Two days later, he officially lost his job.

Virginians across the commonwealth were facing a heavy burden of finding available and affordable health insurance before the recent economic meltdown, and the prospect of alleviating that pain doesn’t look promising, health policy analysts said this week.