Independence News

This Fourth of July as we all watch fireworks and eat at backyard barbecues, we all need to remember what the holiday is really about - honoring the sacrifices of those who have allowed all of us to maintain our rights and independence.

Festivities abound in the Lynchburg area today to mark the day - including at the homes of two of our nation's best-known patriots.

Textbooks have pictured President Coolidge as an accidental, dim-witted president who said little, and thus was dubbed "Silent Cal." Yet he was the most popular political figure of the 1920s in America, and he should be known as "thinking" Cal Coolidge.

'The right of the people' Thomas Jefferson's "Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America" was a radical document that changed the world.

This morning, on Independence Day, Americans will turn on their televisions or radios and hear Thomas Jefferson's ringing affirmation of human dignity: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...

The Roanoke Times Music for Americans is just one of many Fourth of July events around the Roanoke area.

Educational Editorial: Graduation & emancipation Educational Editorial: Beware of video games Educational Editorial: Teaching tolerance, not love? Educational Editorial: Grading scales in public schools Educational Editorial: Social Studies Educational Editorial: College Graduates This May, college graduates will be launched into a world of ...

"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" said Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president.

The Virginia State Police reports that a 20-year-old Grayson County woman was killed in a wreck on U.S. 58 near Mouth of Wilson on Thursday.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation was awarded the sixth annual Employer Leadership Award from the International Rescue Committee on Friday.

Grayson County is proposing to charge all residents of the county $3 a week for trash pickup, but Independence Town Council members feel they should have been included in negotiations.

Rep. Randy Forbes believes that the United States is a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and hopes that his sponsorship of a bill designating the first week in May as "America's Spiritual Heritage Week" will make that belief official.

A driver faces four charges in Grayson County after allegedly attempting to elude police officers the night of June 3. According to Cpl.

June 10, 2009 Grayson Co. pharmacist accused of helping dentist get drugs illegally There are more details on a Grayson County dentist accused of illegally distributing drugs.

A two-month investigation by the Bureau of Drug Enforcement Services of the Virginia State Police has resulted in charges against an Independence dentist.

June 8, 2009 Grayson County dentist charged A Grayson County dentist is accused of illegally distributing prescription drugs.

Antonia Stocki Rausch died Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at Green Knoll Care and Rehabilitation Center in Bridgewater.

The exit ramp from southbound Interstate 29/35 to the Paseo and Independence Avenue will close Wednesday for about a year.The closure, part of the project to replace the Paseo Bridge, will allow crews to begin grading work for a new ramp to northbound I-35. The new northbound ramp is scheduled to be completed by fall 2010.Traffic headed to ...

Frederick Philip Hammer, 49, of Crumpler, walked into the Grayson County Courthouse in Independence, Va., shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Friday, May 22, shackled and dressed in a red prison jumpsuit.

INDEPENDENCE, Va. - Following the discovery of additional evidence by guards at the New River Valley Regional Jail, Frederick P. Hammer entered into a plea agreement with state prosecutors to five counts of capital murder Friday at the Grayson County Courthouse.