Abingdon News

BY DEBRA McCOWN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ST. PAUL, Va. - When the Santa Train rolled into town Saturday, the Jolly Elf in the red suit and Wynonna Judd weren't the only special guests.

It's tough to be a politician these days. Good thing the assured wealth makes up for this: Boucher's vote draws protesters near his Abingdon office By Debra McCown, Reporter, Bristol Herald Courier Abingdon, Va.

U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher's staff took notes from 13 people who showed up last week to voice concern over his vote on health care reform.

Alpha Natural Resources, which became the nation's third-largest coal company after a recent merger, has reaffirmed its Southwest Virginia roots: It will build its new $21 million headquarters on a site in Bristol, Va.

"Favorites," Garret Mathews Abingdon, Va., native Garret Mathews embarked on a newspaper career in Bluefield, W.Va., more than 30 years ago.

They were howling like wolves in their evening wear Friday at the Martha Washington Hotel and Spa, where about 100 of Abingdon's social elite gathered for a public art auction that raised more than $35,000. The event ended the saga of 27 painted wolf sculptures that were stolen, returned and taken for joyrides during months of display around town, ...

Dozens of people lined both sides of Main Street in front of the Washington County Courthouse Thursday for a pair of protests directed at U.S. Rep.

Tony Getman had what some might call an easy choice: plead guilty to molesting his young neighbor or take the case before a Southwest Virginia jury.

With trumpets, bagpipes and cannon fire, Abingdon paid tribute Wednesday to centuries of veterans who have served this country.

Coal operator Alpha Natural Resources plans to build a new headquarters in Bristol.

BY DEBRA McCOWN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. - The Washington County Board of Supervisors gave zoning approval Tuesday for the second of two projects competing for a state certificate of need to build a nursing home near the new Johnston Memorial Hospital.

Where are you going to hang the new painting?" I asked my wife Sweetness. "I don't know," she said.

Quite often you'll see charity organizations organize galas to bring in money. But when members of the community organize the event as a way of saying thank you, it makes it a little more special.

Area lawmakers aren't yet willing to embrace a controversial plan that would allow Bristol Virginia Utilities to form an independent, public authority.

BRISTOL, Tenn. - A proposed King College school of medicine would be built in Washington County, Va., King President Greg Jordan said.

With a margin of just 17 votes, Republican Joe Straten beat incumbent Democrat Jack McCrady for the Taylor District seat on the Washington County Board of Supervisors, according to unofficial totals late Tuesday.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Oct. 29--ABINGDON, Va. -- If you ask Todd Christensen's boss at the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, he'll tell you Christensen has "led the charge" behind the cultural heritage tourism movement in Southwest Virginia.

Mike Ostroski plays Lennie and Ashley Campos plays Curley's wife in the Barter Theater touring production of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," at Five Flags Theater.

An Abingdon woman was arrested Tuesday after police accused her of raping her live-in girlfriend's young daughter at least 11 times in three years.

BY DEBRA McCOWN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. - The Washington County Board of Supervisors discussed noise ordinances, zoning and business permits Tuesday in trying to resolve conflict over a motorcycle racing track on Providence Road.