 02/25/10 Updates on Virginia Intermont, UVa.-Wise, King and Emory & Henry athletics
 02/24/10 A special meeting of the Mingo County Board of Education to welcome the newly appointed school superintendent lasted little more than an hour but that was long enough to evoke complimentary commen...
 02/24/10 A Massachusetts has been identified as one of the two people killed when a tour bus taking them on a sightseeing trip crashed in central Florida. The Florida Highway Patrol says 79-year-old John Roy of Cohasset and 78-year-old Joan Horsch of Abingdon, Va., died in Monday's crash. Three others were critically injured.
 02/24/10 Florida Highway Patrol Auxiliary Lt. Montie Dowling helped operate a rollover exhibit at the recent Lake Placid Country Fair.
02/24/10 Griffith, the majority leader in the Virginia House of Delegates, has the backing of fellow Republican Delegates Bill Carrico of Independence, Terry Kilgore of Gate City, Anne B. Crockett-Stark of Wytheville, Charles Poindexter of Glade Hill, Will Morefield of Tazewell and Dave Nutter of Christiansburg, his campaign announced Wednesday.
02/24/10 ELECTRICITY CALENDARNIGHTLIFEACOUSTIC COFFEEHOUSE: Johnson City, 415 W. Walnut St. Feb. 27, 10 p.m., Marshall Ballew and Matt Woods; Feb. 28, 10 p.m., Michael Allen; March 2, 8 p.m., Zach Whitaker. (423) 434-9872.
 02/24/10 CHURCH HILL - In tough economic times positive business news can be hard to find, but in Church Hill there is a bright spot.
02/17/10 Buzz along with the Bee-Liners. The Dixie Bee-Liners, that is.See the Abingdon-based bluegrass band on Feb. 19 at the Abingdon Senior Center and then on Feb. 21 as one of a bevy of bands scheduled to appear at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, Tenn.
02/17/10 WACKY WILSONComedian Tim Wilson is neither Larry nor Curly nor Moe and certainly not a stooge.But he sure is funny. Hear the often-topical humor of Wilson when he appears at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, Tenn., on Feb. 20. Fellow comedian Stewart Huff will open the show.
 02/17/10 The Gloucester County Codes Compliance Office received 246 complaints during 2009, codes compliance director Ron Peaks said. Also, Peaks reported 91 business applications were received by the department in 2009, down from 102 the previous year.
 02/17/10 High school boys basketball Tuesday's box score Hawks 69, Colonels 46 Skyline 20 15 14 20 -- 69 James Wood 9 14 14 9 -- 46 Skyline (8-10, 5-3 Northwestern) McEathron 0-2 0-0 0, Taylor 4-7 0-3 8, Neidigh 6-10...
 02/16/10 In the past, the state has funded half the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail budget, covering salaries and a portion of employee benefits at the four jails in Abingdon, Duffield, Haysi and Tazewell.
02/10/10 The Monday night crash that left an Abingdon, Va., woman dead and sent police searching for a red Mustang that fled the scene has shoved street racing into local headlines for the third time in recent years.
 02/09/10 Coal mine operator Alpha Natural Resources expanded its tiny natural gas business, drilling its first well in the Marcellus shale.
 02/09/10 Coal mine operator Alpha Natural Resources has begun expanding its natural gas business by drilling its first well in the Marcellus shale.
 02/09/10 Police are on the lookout for a car involved in a deadly crash. Bristol, Virginia police say street racing caused a crash on Gate City Highway.
 02/02/10 Monroe City Schools is taking its first steps toward finding a replacement for interim Superintendent Julian Gray.
01/27/10 A free dental clinic for low-income, uninsured and underinsured people will be held next month at the Gloucester High School gymnasium. The clinic is part of a series of Missions of Mercy dental outreach projects held across the state to benefit those most in need.
01/27/10 A Bristol Virginia Utilities lineman was airlifted to the hospital in Bristol on Wednesday after making contact with a live electrical line.
01/26/10 As a young soldier, Emanuel Grossman was among the first Americans into the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II. The nightmare he lived as he helped to liberate death camp survivors would play over in his head for the next 65 years. | 
