06/05/11 By Duncan Adams Helen Crumpacker and her mother-in-law cooked dinner for the German prisoners of war who had labored that day in the Crumpacker Bros. orchards near Bonsack. In POW camps in Salem, Catawba and across the nation, many Germans lingered for a time in the United States even after Allied forces in World War II declared victory in Europe in May 1945.
05/29/11 A two-vehicle crash Sunday on Interstate 85 south in Dinwiddie County injured two people, Virginia State Police said.
03/23/11 The Virginia Board of Education is honoring seven public school divisions and 103 schools for raising the academic achievement of economically disadvantaged students.
03/18/11 Some people want what they want when they want it and will do whatever they have to do to get it. Leonard Kidd is one of those people.
03/10/11 Median housing prices in the Fredericksburg region fell to their lowest point in almost nine years i...
03/06/11 Bipartisan and bicameral fighting to keep open the 20-bed geriatric unit at Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute has resulted in its funding in the Virginia budget.
03/05/11 The following is a roster of The Dalton Guards, officially called Company B, Phillips Legion Infantry, which served in the Army of Northern Virginia and which hailed from Murray and Whitfield Counties.
02/28/11 Associated Press - February 28, 2011 10:05 AM ET RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The General Assembly has rejected Gov. Bob McDonnell's call for a major infusion of cash into the state's program to...
02/28/11 The Virginia General Assembly has rejected Gov. Bob McDonnell's call for a major infusion of cash into the state's program to indefinitely detain violent sexual predators.
02/28/11 The General Assembly has rejected Gov. Bob McDonnell's call for a major infusion of cash into the state's program to indefinitely detain violent sexual predators.
02/28/11 Legislators have put the brakes on Gov. Bob McDonnell's plans to infuse millions of dollars into the program to indefinitely detain sex offenders after their prison sentences.
02/27/11 BOB LEWIS Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. Virginia's House and Senate unanimously passed amendments to the state's $80 billion budget Sunday, ending the 2011 General Assembly one day late. The compromise government spending blueprint through June 2012 offers more aid for public schools, for the profoundly disabled and for state and local government pensioners. It also provides state aid to brake ...
02/27/11 Virginia's House and Senate unanimously passed amendments to the state's $80 billion budget Sunday, ending the 2011 General Assembly one day late.
02/18/11 Editor's note: Delegate Dance sends weekly updates during the General Assembly session. This is her report.We have finally reached week six of this session and with just one week to go there is still a lot to be done if we are to adjourn, as expected
01/28/11 One woman died as the result of a two-vehicle crash that took place Thursday evening in Nottoway County.
10/24/10 The Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute in Marion is expected to close their geriatric unit next year. That's why Virginia lawmakers met Sunday to change the minds of those who want to shut the unit down.
09/11/10 "The Nottoway County location will be much better suited for the needs of our state police, conservation police, and local law enforcement," said Secretary of Public Safety Marla Graff Decker, in the release.
09/10/10 A controversial law enforcement shooting range will not be built in Powhatan County, state police announced today.
09/10/10 POWHATAN & NOTTOWAY COUNTIES - The controversial firing range,that got Powhatan homeowners and county leaders upset, is not going to be built there after all. On Friday, Virginia State Police announced that the project will instead move to Nottoway County.
08/27/10 A fight involving five inmates at the Nottoway Correctional Center Friday afternoon left three prisoners injured, two of them flown by helicopter to an unspecified hospital. Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said their conditions were unknown. A third inmate was sent to a hospital near what ...
08/27/10 A fight involving five inmates at the Nottoway Correctional Center yesterday left three prisoners injured, and two of them were flown by helicopter to an unspecified hospital. Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, said their conditions were unknown. A third inmate was sent to a hospital near ... | 
