Lebanon News

Loretta Johnson is a 62-year-old health care worker who can't afford health insurance, so she's decided to do something about it.

CLEVELAND, Va. - Russell County keeps calling to Kathy Shearer. Just over the mountain, from her home at Emory, Va., Russell County has lured Shearer into giant book projects for years.

The 19th annual Operation: God Bless America motorcycle ride for veterans will be held Sunday, ending at the Lebanon VA Medical Center about 1:30 p.m. Registration is 10-11:30 a.m. at the Sunoco and Express Mart off exits 52A and 52B, Routes US 11 and I-81 in Carlisle.

A foster program for veterans with medical needs is poised to begin operation through Lebanon VA Medical Center.

Six local Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles offices are scheduled to temporarily close this month as part of a state-initiated upgrade of its licensing process.

This week, the National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes in two areas of our region.

There's no sign of a sputtering economy at the military training complex here or at the Lebanon VA Medical Center.

Just before 6 a.m. Monday, Lebanon, Va., resident Jeannetta Santolla got a call from her husband who said he'd just been injured while fighting in Iraq.

A Southwest Virginia National Guardsman was injured in Iraq Monday. A roadside bomb exploded next to the humvee driven by Sgt.

The Heidelberg supervisors are optimistic as they wait for final word on their plan to hook into South Lebanon Township's sewer lines.

The former owner of an Abingdon ambulance company will spend more than four years in a federal prison for defrauding Medicare and a private insurer.

ABINGDON, Va. - Kelley McClanahan never grew things. But last year, for the first time in her life, she planted a garden - and she canned pickles, tomatoes and sauerkraut.

Though legally blind, friends and veterans Jim Rigel, of Beaver Springs, and Jim Howell, of Middleburg, see how to meet a need better than most.

The Lebanon VA Medical Center will receive $9.2 million in federal economic-stimulus funding, bringing to more than $32 million the amount of stimulus money coming to the county.

To deduct, or not to deduct? If that question - regarding a controversial practice of energy companies - cannot be resolved with legislation, there is always litigation, a lawyer-legislator told the Virginia Gas and Oil Board on Tuesday.

Larry Harley did not mince words in his May 2006 letter to the Virginia State Bar: He was concerned one of his Legal Aid attorneys was preying on vulnerable clients, and attached statements from three women ...

By engaging in consensual sex with his Legal Aid clients, Wade Compton had not done anything improper, he informed the Virginia State Bar.

WARNING: Some of the material contained in the documents linked to this article are of a sensitive nature and may be offensive to some readers.

More than 300 homeless veterans went to the Lebanon VA last year seeking all kinds of help from shelter to medical services and now one local church says it's time to finally put an end to this problem.

At today's Senate HELP Committee hearing on rebuilding the middle class, senators heard fromA workers who weighed in on the importance of unions and the need for the freedom to form unions and bargain.A Deborah ...