Many people in Lynchburg offer violin or other music lessons from their home, but Christi Salisbury wears that and many other hats.

A Lynchburg man convicted of breaking into the home of a 76-year-old woman, beating her and robbing her at gunpoint was sentenced to 38 years in prison Friday.

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling didn’t shy away from politically charged questions when speaking before about 800 high school students attending Boys State on Wednesday in Lynchburg.

Breaking newsLynchburg City Council appointed local business owner Charlie White and mortgage loan officer Ingrid Hamlett to the Lynchburg School Board at a meeting today. Council members also reappointed Keith Anderson. See Wednesday’s News & Advance for details.

The city is preparing to start work on a splashy new park project that will be the first of its kind in Lynchburg.

Construction is expected to begin this summer on the community’s first sprayground — a type of aquatic playground that takes the old summer pastime of running through the sprinklers to new levels.

City Council is entering the homestretch of a lengthy school board appointment process.

An Amherst County man was arrested after an altercation Saturday that ended with his neighbor shot in the foot, authorities said Wednesday.

What appeared at first to be a runaway situation has landed two Lynchburg women in jail on child abduction charges, Lynchburg Police said Wednesday.

Louise Pugliese, 47, and Ariel Odom, 20, were each charged with three counts of felony child abduction and are also facing other pending charges, police said in a news release.

In the coming week, hundreds of high school age boys will descend on Lynchburg to get a crash course on government at the local and state level.

I’ve never been part of the “lock the door and throw away the key” crowd, but I was more than a little surprised to read that 20-year-old Jo-El Trent was given just eight years in prison for shooting Robert Brown Jr. twice in the chest outside the Lynchburg Public Library on January 26.

A national organization is honoring the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company for outstanding achievement.

A Campbell County man was taken into custody for an evaluation after leading a 90-minute standoff with law enforcement officers Monday.

A Madison Heights woman pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling thousands of dollars from a Lynchburg Burger King where she worked as a shift manager.

Lynchburg School Board will take up several notable items today and meet for the last time with its current makeup of board members.

Linkhorne Elementary School Principal Jason Mack, who has been at the helm of the school since 2003, has resigned.