Friends and family of 25 graduating students of the Danville Regional Medical Center School of Health Professions Nursing Program filled George Washington High School’s Auditorium on Friday night for commencement exercises.

Seventy-nine students graduated from Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham on Saturday, its 99th class of students.

U.S. Sen. Jim Webb thinks passage of the new GI Bill was the right thing to do because educating veterans is a cost of war.

There were single-seat planes and big military planes, small helicopters and burly attack helicopters, classic cars and cars so new they use alternative fuels, parachutists, balloon rides, food and music — and they are doing it all over again today.

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“Jennifer is one of those real bright-eyed people who tends to see the positive in people,” said Peggy Singer, director of radiology for Annie Penn Hospital. “She’s a real people person. When she says, ‘What can I do for you?’ she truly means it.”

Andy Case said the former King home had a lot of “firsts.” It was the first house in Eden to have running water and lavatories and the second to have electricity. It was also the home that housed the traveling preacher. The nanny’s room, next to the nursery on the second floor of the home, doubled as the traveling preacher’s room. Case said Doctor King donated a great deal of money to First Baptist Church, which eventually housed the traveling preacher.

“Now, the delegation will take Reidsville into the national spotlight to tell just how big this community’s heart really is,” wrote Simmons in an e-mail expressing her appreciation to the “trek to Tampa” supporters. “We are privileged to represent this wonderful community, and the pride will be reflected in the stories told to the judges and our competition. While being named an All-America City finalist is a tremendous honor, we have every intention of coming back a winner!”

A Reidsville man died in fiery crash Saturday near 507 McCoy Road west of Sherwood Road, police say.

A Friday afternoon kitchen fire caused minor damage to a home on Dudley Street.

A Danville man has been charged with stealing $100,000 worth of lawn tractors, trailers and pressure washers from a Franklin County business.

The driver of a 1998 Toyota Corolla pulled around a bus loading students on Broad Street at George Washington High School at 1:17 p.m. Friday, and was hit when the bus pulled into the street, police said.

Four vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction accident Friday morning on Riverside Drive at its intersection with Piney Forest Road.

Teachers should let the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors know important additional school funding is needed, according to the outgoing president of the Virginia Education Association.

As Sky-Fest gets under way and air traffic races over Danville, it’s definitely interesting to see what these pilots see, both inside the plane and the view outside, and to learn just how many switches there are to flip before you can get in the air.
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During a closed meeting Friday, City Council discussed selecting an interim city manager to take over City Manager Jerry Gwaltney’s duties after he retires June 30.

By a 6-2 vote, council passed a rate of 73 cents per $100 of assessed property value, 4 cents less than the previous 77-cent rate. Assessments have increased about 5.9 percent.

Two Eden men have been stealing from the dead, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office reports.

A jury has recommended that Demetris Tyrell Jennings serve life in prison for the beating death of 49-year-old Reginald Lee Fitzgerald.

Linda Taylor’s day begins before sunrise with a trip to the stables to feed, water and care for her horses. Next, she cares for the Chihuahuas she hopes to find loving homes for soon through her online animal adoption service — Arriba Rescue.

According to a state law passed last year, cities are required to impose a $2 excise tax for every ton of garbage placed in their landfill. Reidsville places 13,000 tons of garbage in the city landfill annually, according to City Manager Kelly Almond.

Eden police Thursday arrested Brandon Rieson, 18, on outstanding warrants charding him with assault on a female, communicating threats and assault with a deadly weapon, a news release said.

Reidsville police Thursday made their fourth arrest in an undercover drug operation from last fall and early winter, a news release said. 

Larry Wayne Dodson was arrested without incident about 8 p.m., said Sheriff Mike Taylor.

The global marketplace will turn to the University of Virginia in September when financial leaders from around the world meet in Charlottesville.

Myrick said Thursday she wants to overturn a long-standing moratorium on drilling for oil and gas off the Atlantic Coast.

Virginia distributor sees it coming; U.S. regulators reveal oil market probe

Tomorrow, delegates to the state Republican Convention will nominate a candidate to take on Democrat Mark Warner in this fall’s Senate race.

Torgersen, 76, who was president of the school in Blacksburg from 1993 through 2000 and served as dean of the engineering college for 20 years, has throat cancer.

Virginia has created a program to connect retiring farms with men and women who aspire to work the land.

Breathing — it’s what we do every day without thinking. Inhale, exhale. So easily done, and so easily taken for granted.