Mint-Spring News

He was born April 8, 1935, in Augusta County, a son of the late Raymond Preston and Jessie Rebecca Rankin.

Elsie Smith's husband has been gone for 25 years, but on Wednesday she was reunited with a piece of her late spouse's past -- a lost World War II dog tag.

Virginia State Police said Friday that its investigation of a runaway car on Interstate 81, which resulted in its two occupants leaping from the moving vehicle last week, is now officially closed.

A student headed to Blue Ridge Community College on Tuesday afternoon lost the ability to control the acceleration of her car as it reached speeds of over 100 miles per hour before being taken out by Virginia State Police on Interstate 81 in Augusta County.