The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 647, in cooperation with the Danville Area Veterans Council, sponsored the Memorial Day service at U.S. (Danville) National Cemetery on Lee Street on Sunday afternoon. About 150 people attended the event.

An unseasonably warm day brought out the umbrellas and fans for Sunday’s Memorial Day Ceremony at Rockingham County’s Veteran’s Park.
Many of the more than 150 visitors seated in bleachers and chairs facing the park’s stone monuments sweated and fanned as they waited for the service to begin, but it would take more than a little heat to keep them from the event.

The Reidsville Police Department conducted a DWI checkpoint on South Scales Street near Lawndale Drive between 10 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday. The stop resulted in 46 charges.

A woman was killed when her car ran off the road late Friday night in Pittsylvania County.

The eighth reunion for the 560th Field Artillery gave surviving members of the unit the chance to see old friends and talk about old times.

Parents, friends and other family members filled the Tabernacle Church Saturday afternoon to celebrate the graduating 43 seniors of Westover Christian Academy.

Local law enforcement officials see making some adjustments as they watch gasoline prices going up almost every day.

When Tiffany Franks first arrived at Greensboro College in 1988, one of the first pressing issues was a particular men’s dorm that seemed to attract a host of problems. Discontent with the way the administration was handling the situation, 23-year-old Franks opted for a new approach: She told the president she wanted to move into the dorm.

“She didn’t have a fear of anything. Not a thing,“ Starr Tuttle, said of the girl who died May 16 of complications stemming from a congenital heart defect.

Rockingham County figures prominently in guidebook’s Piedmont edition.

Detours on Central Boulevard next week

Pet adoption fees will drop from $75 to $45 for people qualified to adopt a pet. This fee includes spaying and/or neutering of the pet, an examination and a rabies shot.

Commemoration set for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at National Cemetery on Lee Street in Danville

Costs to increase by $6 per credit hour under plan to take effect this fall

E.C. Glass High School went into lockdown Friday morning after a student was spotted on campus with a knife, according to police and school officials.

A 72-year-old Lynchburg man was sentenced to five years in prison Friday in connection with the attempted robbery of the Carter Bank and Trust on Campbell Avenue in November.

1:45 p.m. UPDATE  E.C. Glass High School was put on lockdown this morning after a student was spotted on campus with a knife, according to police and school officials.

Law enforcement agencies countywide teamed up Thursday to check seat-belt compliance in Draper.       

      The organizer for the checkpoint was Eden officer Lt. Tyrone Scales. Before the blue lights turned on and the reflective vests were donned, Scales briefed the officers he recruited to help. Officers with Stoneville, Reidsville, Mayodan and Madison police departments and the Highway Patrol gathered in a conference room.

Scientists are asking visitors to the Chesapeake Bay shoreline to be on the lookout for potentially invasive Chinese mitten crabs.

A report released yesterday criticizes the grant and financial-aid programs that serve the state’s 58 community colleges, saying that the aid programs fall short of the financial support that a typical community college student needs.

$4 a gallon appears likely amid concerns over low supplies, high demand

Brush fires forced officials to divert traffic in Gaston County, while firefighters in Charlotte responded to a number of blazes believed to have been started by sparks from a passing train.

The husband of a woman killed in an automobile accident involving a prison-transport van is suing its driver and his employer for $25.3 million.

One former Yanceyville Town Council member applauds the body’s decision to get rid of the police department. The action was taken earlier in the week during a joint meeting with the Board of Commissioners.

Danville’s real estate tax rate and the city’s 2008-2009 budget remain in limbo while City Council members ponder the options City Attorney Clarke Whitfield had hand-delivered to them Wednesday.

Hokie football coach discusses leadership, perseverance at grand opening gala

Aromas of feta cheese, baking paprika and rich olive oil wafted through the basement of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany on Thursday as eager diners arrived for the ninth annual Greek Food Fest.

Steve Smith of Wholesale Monument Co. inscribed the names of 28 veterans into the monument at the Rockingham County Veterans Park on Thursday morning.

Buying gas is about as pleasant as giving a blood sample. Where a needle’s sting gets the worst over immediately, watching dollar after dollar tick by on the gas pump induces the same anxiety as watching a vial fill red.

A federal grand jury formally charges a Las Vegas man with e-mailing threats to former Virginia Tech students on the eve of the one year anniversary of the April 16th tragedy.