One 21-year-old not only came back home after graduating college, he started his own business.

Seven-year-old Chad Weatherford gave the gluten-free honey wheat bread the thumbs up.

Administrators and police locked down the school Wednesday morning after reports that three juveniles — one with a gun — were running through campus, according to a news release from the Danville Police Department.

It’s payback time for Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar. The Danville restaurant is so appreciative of the business the local residents bring them that the staff wants to give something back.

Highway work is scheduled in several areas weather permitting in Pittsylvania County and traffic may be restricted.

Staff with the National Research Council is continuing to try to determine how the agency will proceed with a possible uranium-mining study.

A Salute To The Armed Forces” concert was held Tuesday at the Danville Public Library.

Hargrave Military Academy cadets will host a Veteran’s Day parade today in honor of all current, former and past military service personnel.

The Danville City Council and the Danville Regional Medical Center board of directors will meet Thursday at 3 p.m. in the administrative boardroom of the hospital, according to a news release from the city manager’s office.

Nearly all of the Pittsylvania County elementary schools have held H1N1 vaccination clinics and school officials hope to provide the vaccine to all schools by winter break, pending availability.

Leaders in Danville’s health care sector don’t think the health reform bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday is perfect.

A circuit court judge found a Danville man guilty of raping a teenager after she blacked out from drinking liquor that the defendant bought for her.

The rider struck a brick mailbox on Saturday night.

Donna Bruns lost 42 pounds. The Callands resident reached her goal weight through the help of her support group Take Off Pounds Sensibly. She got her head straight and didn’t give up.

As a small group of five or six people chanted “Thank you, Tom,” outside Rep. Tom Perriello’s downtown Danville congressional office Monday afternoon, a larger group of about 70 people responded louder, “No thanks, Tom.”

A new report says the Danville metropolitan area is the riskiest in Virginia for pedestrians.

Amid callous criticism of his vote, Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, defended his support of the sweeping health care reform bill that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday night.

The deadline to apply for Fuel Assistance through the Virginia Department of Social Services’ is Friday.

A Danville teenager waived his right to a jury trial Monday for charges he faces in a July 11 shooting that killed Latoya Hubbard and injured a 19-year-old.

Veterans from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan were honored during an hour-long ceremony on a sunny and unseasonably warm Saturday morning at the Danville-Pittsylvania Veterans Memorial in Dan Daniel Memorial Park, and a crowd of nearly 100 attended the service, sponsored by the American Legion Memorial Post 325 and the Danville Area Veterans Council.

Danville-Pittsylvania County is listed as a medically underserved area, according to the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. Some parts of the area also are designated as low-income population and geographic health professional shortage areas.

Overcrowding has complicated two local jails’ budgets as administrators have tried to find ways to control costs while keeping staff and inmates safe in their crowded facilities.

Bikers sported leather and revved up their hogs for a good cause Saturday at the Eagles Lodge on U.S. 58 East. The Danville chapter of the Scorpions Motorcycle Club held its 24th annual Toy Run, Blood Drive and Bike Show to raise money and toys for Salvation Army.

After 34 years and one month with the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office, Vic Ingram decided to celebrate his retirement a little differently than most. Traditionally, when a police officer retires someone plans a party and sets a cost per person, (but) I decided to cover the cost of the meal and give my friends the opportunity to help others by giving through me,” he said. He also gave people the opportunity to donate to two organizations dear to his heart Friday night at Mt. Calvary Church in Axton.

This week marks National Nurse Practitioner Week.

The Danville Fire Department suspects arson in a fire that caused damage Saturday morning to a home on Glendale Avenue.

A short in an electrical panel box caused a fire Saturday evening that has left a family temporarily homeless.

Rep. Tom Perriello, D-5th District, recently issued a news release touting a $500,000 earmark he requested in an appropriations bill for a Halifax County wastewater treatment plant. Perriello, however, voted against that bill in June.

City Councilman Adam Tomer is calling for an investigation of a city payment of nearly $500,000 in extra incentive money for Coleman MarketPlace that was not approved by Danville City Council.

The Pittsylvania-Danville Health District has partnered with schools to successfully vaccinate several area schools with H1N1 vaccine, said Dr. Charles Devine, health director.