Dressed in a ruffled shirt, striped vest, knee-length yellow jacket and pants, Todd Southard looked the part of a respectable Colonial gentleman. Holding his tri-cornered hat, Southard glanced around the room to spot the bright red coat of a British soldier standing at a table beside a soldier from the Continental Army.

Resolution passes at Wednesday meeting; tax would go toward school construction

Adjusting jurisdiction is viewed as way to safeguard water supplies for Reidsville, Eden and Madison

As costs to fill up gas tanks and refrigerators rise, business is practically booming for second-hand stores and pawnshops offering cash for used items and low selling prices.

Neither of the drivers were hurt injuries.

The “Pennies for the Pooch” campaign grew out of a story written for the school newspaper, The Phoenix Scope. Members of the school’s yearbook staff decided to start the campaign.

Commissioners voted to allow Reidsville to begin the expansion process in two areas. The smaller proposed area is on either side of N.C. 87 near Holliday Loop Road. The area is expected to grow when the proposed equestrian center opens. The largest is the area between Freeway Drive and Lake Reidsville. The city chose that area, Community Development Director Michael Pearce said, because it wanted greater control of the watershed feeding into the city’s water supply.

The U.S. Marshals Service has apprehended Christoper Lee Wharton, 17, of Danville in connection with the March 16 murder of 26-year-old Heath Clark Alloway of Martinsville

20-year old Lorenza Jones was indicted on first-degree murder and robbery in connection with the homicide of 21-year-old Precious Saunders.

The Reidsville City Council has passed a resolution of support for the quarter-cent sales tax proposal to benefit the Rockingham County schools. The resolution was passed at a special council meeting Wednesday morning.

Harry Morehead was placed under $50,000 bail and is being held in the Rockingham County Jail.

A total of 11 charges were made as a result of the check point at Montgomery, Burton and Thompsonville streets.

Robert Charles Gleason Jr., 38, plead guilty in Amherst Circuit Court to the first-degree murder of Michael Kent Jamerson of Madison Heights, whose body was found near Virginia 130 in May 2007.

Divers have recovered the person’s remains, which have been taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy.

The man whose company sold guns to both Seung Hui Cho and the Northern Illinois University shooter will speak Thursday “Free speech is a hallmark of university life. Still, I find it terribly offensive to learn that the gun-seller of the weapons used in the Virginia Tech campus murders would set foot on this campus” says university spokesman. 

A task force appointed by Governor Mike Easley is recommending changes in pesticide rules in the state that could affect thousands of migrant workers who pick crops in North Carolina. 

Verizon, Virginia’s largest telephone company, is more than doubling its rates for local directory-assistance calls beginning next Thursday.

Former Gov. Jim Gilmore’s campaign claimed this week that enough delegates pledged to Gilmore have been elected to the Republican state nominating convention to guarantee him the nod to run for the U.S. Senate.

The Homeless Shelter is trying to make it easier for people to have a safe place to sleep.

Sarah Cunningham was killed while crossing the street on Saturday

While medical advances have increased life expectancy in the United States, a study published this week in the Public Library of Science Medicine finds Danville among a handful of communities seeing a reversal to that trend. 

The second of two murder suspects wanted in a Sept. 30 shooting incident at Deep Blue Seafood Restaurant in Martinsville was captured Tuesday by U.S. marshals in Burlington, N.C.

Number of program enrollees in city, Pittsylvania County have nearly doubled over the past five years

Group says measure would spare poor households, but benefit education.

Tractor Supply Co., Brown Bag Catering, more among new businesses.

Henry County officers say Shawn Mullins and Joanna Stovall told them that Mullins spotted two men wearing dark clothing and masks on the back porch of their home

James Edward Thompson, 47, of 1124 Middlefork Drive in Walnut Cove, N.C. has been charged with three felony counts of larceny and three felony counts of possession of stolen goods. 

Three experienced handlers were working with the grizzly Tuesday at the Predators in Action wild animal training center when the bear attacked Stephan Miller, 39, said San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Cindy Beavers. 

Fire crews plan to burn about 1,200 acres near a wildfire in western North Carolina to limit damage from the blaze. 

Police have charged a man in connection with a fatal shooting at a motel on Candlers Mountain Road early Sunday morning.