Lynchburg News

The Lynchburg Museum has a new exhibit, featuring several artifacts that have never been displayed in the Hill City.

Works are painting the bridge following last yeara s deck rehabilitation work. Southbound traffic was restricted to the inside passing lane for a period, but on Monday night it shifted back to the outside lane.

In Lynchburg, a mosquito is a nuisance, said city native Col. Donald "Gray" Heppner Jr.

Lynchburg Police blame a medical condition for causing a Wednesday afternoon crash.

The holiday special will run Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Museum officials hope this will encourage local residents to discover the history in their own backyard.

June 29, 2009 Nurse's assistant admits to stealing patients' identities in Lynchburg A nurse's assistant admitted to stealing the identities of her patients.

June 26, 2009 Free HIV screenings offered at the Lynchburg Salvation Army Every nine-and-a-half minutes, someone in the U.S. is infected with HIV, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

Good match up in American Legion play Friday night at Forest Middle School. Big Island faces Lynchburg in a battle of 4-and-1 teams going in.

Reeves, of Kingdom Life Christian Center, founded in April, said his vision is to establish a teen center, with the hope of turning around a culture of drugs and violence among local adolescents.

FOREST, Va. - Investigators say discarded smoking materials are the likely cause of a fire that destroyed a shopping center in Bedford County .

A Lynchburg company is getting into the national spotlight for its opinions on the state of health care.

June 24, 2009 Lynchburg man charged with malicious wounding A Lynchburg man is in jail after an assault on Dixie Airport Road in Madison Heights.

The city is preparing to start work on a splashy new park project that will be the first of its kind in Lynchburg.

One lane of traffic is set to reopen on Route 221 between Graves Mill Road and Cotton town Roads after 11 p.m. Saturday night.

For the second year in a row, downtown Lynchburg will not float its own festivities today when the James River Batteau Festival launches from the city.

A Madison Heights woman pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling thousands of dollars from a Lynchburg Burger King where she worked as a shift manager.

June 18, 2009 Cub Scouts rocket towards learning in Lynchburg NASA's been delaying launch dates, but the Cub Scouts aren't. The wind was no problem at a camp at Heritage United Methodist Church in Lynchburg.

A woman was raped in her home off Leesville Road near the Lynchburg airport Tuesday evening and deputies still are searching for her attacker.

What appeared at first to be a runaway situation has landed two Lynchburg women in jail on child abduction charges, Lynchburg Police said Wednesday.

Another Lynchburg construction project is about to get underway. Starting Monday, the outer southbound lane of the Expressway will be closed from the Carter Class Bridge to Kemper Street - to fix the Grace Street retaining wall.