A week before the scheduled trial for the man who is accused of setting Danville City Council member Lee Vogler on fire last summer, a plea hearing has been added to the court docket. 

Thursday will mark 19 years since 32 students, faculty, and staff were murdered on Virginia Tech’s campus.

Two events in Blacksburg and 19 nationwide through alumni chapters are scheduled. More details can be found at www.weremember.vt.edu.

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Since Congress passed new federal rules last July that change how states can access Medicaid funding, several national analyses have identified rural hospitals as financially vulnerable in the years ahead. 

In January, the

In 1956, Arlington County held a referendum that a local newspaper at the time called “controversial.” The question was whether future bond referendums should be limited to property owners. 

By a vote of 17,681 to 15,1950, Arlington voters said “yes.”

Seventy years later, that long-forgotten referendum — and the legal cases it set in motion — may m...

After a Thursday public hearing where more than a dozen residents spoke out in opposition to tax rate increases, the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors raised the real estate tax rate by a s...