A front end loader was stolen from a logging site on Buffalo Ridge Road in Amherst County.

WASHINGTON - Democrat Tom Perriello is on Capitol Hill for new House member orientation this week looking just as official as any other Congressman-elect as he clings to a 745-vote lead over Republican Rep. Virgil Goode. With audio.

Campbell County’s Board of Supervisors will meet at 1 p.m. today in the Haberer Building in Rustburg.

Rebecca Adams knew she was in a male-dominated field when she traveled to California for a scholarship opportunity and saw that she was one of only about 30 women out of 200 recipients.

The history surrounding the landscape of Sweet Briar College was like a calling to Wayne Stark when he took a job as the school’s director of career services nearly eight years ago.

With sobering economic realities giving many businesses a significant shake-up, at least one free service is thriving in the Lynchburg area — the public library.

The Tri-County Relicensing Committee will not appeal a state water control board decision that approved a new lake discharge permit for the Smith Mountain Project.

The city of Bedford could be in store for its first roundabout to ease traffic flow in a heavily traveled area near the National D-Day Memorial.

It’s not just about trees.

Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman’s mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.

The first time Penny Sipple went to a foreclosure auction, she wasn’t looking for a house. She was just curious.

You wouldn’t expect a $1 million home on Easy Street on Smith Mountain Lake to end up in the same situation as a $20,000 house from inner-city Lynchburg.

The Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce will host a “Raise Your Voice Rally” on Wednesday to encourage local businesses to be involved politically.

Paul Fitzgerald was in the hot seat Friday night.

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Following the death of a hunter in Gretna earlier this week, hunters and game officers maintain that the sport is safe.

An agricultural board that advises the Bedford County Board of Supervisors on farm-related matters is asking state officials to speed up a process enacting regulations for biosolids.

A Lynchburg man’s plea Friday that he thought a girl he had sex with in May was 15 years old did not appear to satisfy the judge.

If food industry leaders started running out of the “leftovers” that they donate to feed the hungry, how would the nonprofit sector react?

“Come for the history, stay for the beauty” is the slogan Campbell County officials hope will increase tourism traffic in the county.

The way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, but one Lynchburg man’s stomach took him on a detour to prison.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ NASA fueled space shuttle Endeavour on Friday for an evening flight to the international space station and a home remodeling project by astronauts doubling as kitchen and bathroom installers.

A Montvale man was arrested Thursday after deputies found weapons and drugs in his house.

Check out a variety of scenes from in and around Lynchburg in The News & Advance’s Photo of the Day feature.

Some people who suffer Seasonal Affective Disorder may also have a genetic mutation that may, in part, bring on wintry depression, a study by a University of Virginia researcher has found.

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At a time when the hit parade was awash with crooners and jazz songbirds, a young Robert White found himself bopping along, not to the modern tones of Bing Crosby or Peggy Lee, but to the strains of Bach’s famed Brandenburg concertos – circa 1721.

When Dennis Johnson hits the stage, he turns into a different person. “I transform,” says the lead singer and harmonica player for the Deanie Blues Band. “I go from Dennis to Deanie. Don’t blame me, blame Deanie.”

Dan Raessler figures that most people have a like for music. He can’t say whether his feeling is any stronger, but he can say that “music really does move me very profoundly.”

Larry Scott’s busy schedule gives new meaning to the term “drumming up business.”