Grundy News

An accident involving a four-wheeler ATV left two injured in Grundy County at about 7 p.m. CDT.

The Appalachian School of Law is receiving a record number of applications from prospective students, and they could top 1,800 this year.

GRUNDY, Va. - Clean drinking water will soon flow to another 89 families in Buchanan County who are currently dependent upon private wells.

RICHLANDS, Va. - A Virginia man is being held without bond after a late-night gas drive-off led to a high-speed pursuit in Tazewell and Buchanan counties.

A Buchanan County man has been sentenced to 20 years in a federal prison after admitting he spent two years pretending to be paralyzed from the neck down.

It's not just families who are being forced to tighten their belts. A six-year plan for highway and transit improvements in Virginia has now been scaled down, resulting in a loss of total or partial funding for ... via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

“We have seen a downturn in revenue to the highway trust fund to the tune of $1.1 billion”

TAZEWELL, Va. - Funding for several local projects is reduced or eliminated in a scaled down six-year plan for highway and transit improvements in Southwest Virginia. via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

“The coal companies will build it quicker, at half the cost with a better design and higher speed limit than if the road were built by VDOT alone.”

GRUNDY, Va. - In a move that could expedite construction on the Coalfields Expressway in Southwest Virginia, the Federal Highway Administration has agreed to reinstate a special experimental project status for ... via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Firearms provide safety, sense of security against those who disregard law Maritza Carroway Issue date: 2/27/08 Section: Viewpoints A new gun control argument is out, and this time, it's for more freedom. via The Gamecock

Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee will be here in Roanoke this Monday night at 7 pm at the O.Winston Link Museum on Shenandoah Ave. via Free Republic

“We just assisted the Wilderness Institute.”

GRUNDY, Va. - A riot at a juvenile facility in Buchanan County ended peacefully early Tuesday, police said. via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

“They were just dissatisfied with some of the rules. ...One of the kids said he was [upset] and they left the dorms”

GRUNDY, Va. A disturbance erupted Monday in a juvenile facility when authorities say six detained students ravaged part of the building for two hours in protest of rules they complained were too harsh. via Http

“He ended up hitting about five other vehicles”

GRUNDY, Va. - A Washington County man is facing several charges, including attempted capital murder, after ramming two police cruisers and striking several other vehicles during a pursuit in Buchanan County, ... via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

“We had this vision for the region”

GRUNDY, Va. - Because of its remote mountain location at the confluence of Slate Creek and the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, the Buchanan County capitol of Grundy has appeared isolated from the mainstream ... via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

GRUNDY , Va. -- Buchanan County authorities are holding two brothers who they charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of a Vansant, Va., man on Jan. via News Channel 11

GRUNDY, Va. - Virginia State Police were investigating the circumstances Thursday behind an early morning crash that claimed the life of a Dickenson County woman. via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

“These improper factual findings are especially egregious as applied to Mr. Caperton, who was not represented in nor compensated by the Virginia action”

A bankrupt coal company and its former president urged the state Supreme Court on Thursday to reconsider the recent ruling that stripped them both of a $76.3 million judgment. via Hampton Roads Daily Press

“His job was to be the bag man or the go-between to get the money orders”

Tracy Bridges - a former Madison County magistrate who told a federal magistrate Thursday that he carried extortion money for former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford - was once lauded as a hero during a ... via Asheville Citizen-Times

A Virginia Tech professor who died trying to save his students in the April shootings on campus has been named Beliefnet.com's Most Inspiring Person of 2007. via WAVY-TV Portsmouth

“When it comes right down to it, there's no better place in the state of Virginia to have it than the coalfield counties because of the terrain through those mountains really makes it ideal”

TAZEWELL, Va. - Southwest Virginia officials are taking initial steps toward the development of a proposed all-terrain vehicle recreational trail. via Bluefield Daily Telegraph