Pearisburg News

Today at 11:00am. The United Daughters of the Confederacy McComas Chapter #66 of Pearisburg along with Hamilton Wade Chapter of Christiansburg is having a dedication of two grave markers at Pleasant Hill ...

A big honor for the Virginia agencies who worked together to find a kidnapped four-year-old boy.

BRUSHY MOUNTAIN, Giles County, Va.

High on the mountain, the sun has to fight its way down through the thick forest. The light takes on a spectral elegance, as if yellow diamonds are falling to the ground.

The two campers loved so much about the mountain. How it gave to its visitors, how generous it seemed: There's another deer; listen to that owl; the trout are running.

But a murderer was in these woods, too. And he brought darkness to the light.

When Randall Lee Smith rose from a meal with Scott Johnston and Sean Farmer at their campsite along the Appalachian Trail here in southwestern Virginia in May, he politely thanked them for the fried trout and beans. Then he pulled out his .22 pistol and calmly turned from one to the other.

Pat Laughlin , owner of Courthouse Cafe in downtown Pearisburg, gets a birthday card from friend and business neighbor Angie Franklin of Angie's Hair Care.

Saturday, July 5th starting from the parking lot of the Food Lion in Pearisburg.

I drive north from the New River Valley often enough that I have almost memorized the twists and turns of U.S. 460 between Blacksburg and West Virginia.

Officials and Virginia Department of Transportation contractors survey the bridge over Big Walker Creek after it collapsed June 4 under the weight of a concrete truck.

After a period of silence, the halls of the Pearis Theater are ringing with the sounds of music and laughter once again.

Owner John Billos runs a sub shop and pizzeria and served as a SWAT team member in Washington, D.C. From left, Sgt.

The main suspect in an Amber Alert case from South Carolina makes his first appearance before a judge in Giles County.

Site work is on schedule for the new hospital coming to Giles County. Carilion Clinic broke ground on the site in April, as well as announced a new name -- Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital will become Carilion ...

Carilion Clinic awarded $19.3 million worth of construction work over a three-year period to the company of a builder who sits on its board of directors.

Pembroke barber Clate Dolinger cuts the hair of Donnie Kirk of Staffordsville. Dolinger has been cutting hair in Pembroke since 1962.

People are turning back the clock in Giles County as the town of Pearisburg celebrates its bicentennial.

A Pembroke man's crude and short-lived scheme to manufacture some extra cash has earned him the possibility of 40 years in federal prison.

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Randall Lee Smith, 54, of Pearisburg, Va., sits in the back of a Giles County Sheriff car on his way to be served warrants by a magistrate at the Roanoke, Va., jail Friday, May 9, 2008.

The New River Health District, in observance of this week's ninth annual National Women's Health Week, is inviting women in the New River Valley to visit their local health department for information on the ... via New River Valley Current

“Criminals often do go to places they are most comfortable with”

Disturbed loner. Harmless liar. Confused. Cunning. Killer. Who was Randall Lee Smith? The decades of mystery surrounding the man who pleaded guilty to a notorious double slaying on a Giles County section of the ... via Roanoke Times

Releasing a double murderer early may have harmed two more OFFICIALS in Virginia have only one suspect in the shooting of two men near the Appalachian Trail this month: Randall Lee Smith, 54, of Pearisburg, Va. via Charleston Daily Mail