Bedford County (Virginia)

As housing goes, so goes the rest of Virginia. Or, at least, so goes the Virginia state budget. That was the situation in the early 1980s, the early 1990s and in the early 2000s. Something of a pattern there. So it should come as no surprise that...

BEDFORD, Va. -- Shaquille O'Neal's raunchy rap in which he mocked former teammate Kobe Bryant is costing him another of his lawman badges. Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown said Wednesday that he has asked the Phoenix Suns center to return a badge he was...

At least three local cases of treatment-resistant bacterial infections and the death of a Bedford County high school student attributed to the same infection have highlighted the need to be clean at area schools. The Roanoke Times reported that Ashton...

Dr. J. Drew O'Neal need not look any further than his own foot to see how bad a drug-resistant staph infection can be. He's missing part of his right heel as a result of a nearly year-long battle with the stubborn and sometimes deadly methicillin-...

A second York County student has come down with a drug-resistant staph infection — the latest local victim of a bacteria that reportedly killed a Bedford County high school student earlier this week and has infected at least 10 other students across...

Adrive around Virginia's Lynchburg area links history from Thomas Jefferson's era to the end of the Civil War to June 6, 1944. Lynchburg, which traces its beginnings to a ferry established by John Lynch in 1757, is the site of Poplar Forest, an octagonal...

For Elizabeth Teass, the beginning of a new American war revives distant memories of a conflict that shattered this little Blue Ridge Mountain town, marking it forever as a place defined by the sacrifices of its citizen soldiers. Elizabeth was the...