A 63-year-old man died in a crash in Bedford County on Wednesday night, according to Virginia State Police. Authorities say Payton Jackson, 63, was driving…
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The head of the Rocky Mount Police Department is currently on administrative leave. Chief Ken Criner has been suspended with pay since April 7, according…
More than a half-million Virginians have filed unemployment claims since the coronavirus outbreak hit the state last month, according to new federal data released Thursday.…
A Mount Airy resident is hoping a series of sometimes pithy emails between him and some city officials — particularly Commissioner Tom Koch — will…
When I started here at The Mount Airy News 25 years ago, I wasn’t much of a writer. But I was way better at writing…
Nearly three weeks after a shooting which resulted in critical injuries to a Mount Airy man, another local man has been formally charged with assault…
Roanoke Mayor Sherman Lea and other city leaders are scheduled to speak on Wednesday. This is one of the city’s weekly news conferences scheduled to…
Gov. Ralph Northam gave an update to Virginians on his response to the coronavirus on Wednesday afternoon. There are currently 14,961 confirmed coronavirus cases in…
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — On Wednesday, the nation’s coronavirus task force announced positive clinical trial results for remdesivir, a treatment that originated in the labs at the University of…
The number of coronavirus cases in North Carolina is at least 10,092 as of 2:30 p.m. Wednesday — as reported via the News & Observer from N.C.…