Chase City News

Three high school seniors from Virginia's Eastern Shore have each earned $1,000 college scholarships awarded by the Educational Scholarship Foundation of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives.

Mecklenburg Co., VA - Some vacationers in Mecklenburg County are being credited with helping save a young girl from drowning Sunday.

Sitting in the fading twilight at the end of a cookout 20 years ago, a group of World War II veterans fell to swapping stories.

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The developer of an ethanol plant in Hopewell says the $160 million project is on track for completion in May 2010, despite the weak economy.

The site for Virginia's first ethanol plant is clean, leveled and undergoing foundation work to support the silo and fermenting tanks that will start going up this summer.

Graveside services are 11 a.m. today at Coaltown Cemetery for James Burdine 'Jimmy' Moore, 84, of Skipwith, Va., formerly of Purvis, who died March 29, 2009, in Chase City, Va.

Just over 79 years ago, on Dec. 16, 1929, 15 men in South Hill formed the Crews-Epperson-Puryear American Legion Post 79.

A Chase City man was run over and killed in a one-vehicle accident while lying in a road in Lunenburg County Tuesday evening, police said.

A man struck and killed in Lunenburg County on Tuesday was the first pedestrian death reported on state roadways this year.

The proposed ethanol plant slated for Chase City is still on hold but Virginia farmers that can grow the barley for the plant set for construction in Hopewell are still being sought, officials said.

The top stories of 2008 in Mecklenburg County included the saga of a proposed ethanol plant in Chase City; the rumors, denials and accusations surrounding the closing of Boydton Elementary School; and the ...

Two Mecklenburg County residents were charged last week with the November murder of an Oxford, N.C. man, officials said.

Thanks to the efforts of local law enforcement on Saturday, many children and senior citizens across Mecklenburg County will now have a Christmas to remember.

The Chase City Volunteer Fire Department and the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office discovered a dead body Sunday afternoon, while trying to extinguish a house fire, officials said.

Chase City Elementary School was recognized at Monday's Mecklenburg County School Board meeting for its reading and math program.

A Mecklenburg County Grand Jury named 30 people in a total of 54 indictments Monday, on charges including allegedly shooting a person, child neglect and arson.

Two arrested in delivery driver's death FROM STAFF REPORTS Two Virginia residents have been charged with first degree murder in the death Nov.

Mecklenburg County Public Schools can again boast national recognition as a school system with a school that closes the achievement gap among its students.