Saltville News

By CAITLIN SULLIVAN/Staff A Washington County property owner and the town of Saltville are heading back to court.

A Saltville woman Friday pleaded guilty to charges related to a December 2008 home invasion that left one dead and three injured.

Voters in three Smyth County magisterial districts have made their choices from among the candidates seeking those seats on the board of supervisors.

Bristol Virginia Police Department Oct. 21 * Someone called police at 11:25 p.m. to say that "within the next hour, a man with a mohawk and lot of clown tattoos" would be leaving a Johnson Court apartment, with drugs, and getting into his white Oldsmobile.

Bristol Virginia Police Department Oct. 21 * Someone slashed the tires on a white Honda at a Portsmouth Avenue apartment complex.

Sept. 19 * An 11:13 p.m. call about three drunk men took police to the Tadlock Road section of the King College campus.

Sept. 17 * Two kids were spotted "playing with fire" at an Oakview Avenue apartment complex playground area.

Retired VT professor Jim Glanville. Justin Cook The Roanoke Times Jim Glanville flips through a copy of a 425-year-old Spanish document that detailed a savage attack on an Indian village near present-day Saltville.

Jim Glanville flips through a copy of a 425-year-old Spanish document that detailed a savage attack on an Indian village near present-day Saltville.

* One drunk man assaulted another drunk man in the Bristol Virginia Public Library parking lot around 2:30 p.m. The assaulted drunk man "refused to fight" and drove his white Chevy truck toward Commonwealth Avenue.

A Smyth County man is being hunted by local law enforcement and the U.S. marshals after authorities accused him of abducting his wife and circling through Southwest Virginia in a Volkswagen, raping and beating her.

In no hurry, John Rice Irwin showed off his exhibits at the Museum of Appalachia.

SALTVILLE, Va. - This year is the 145th anniversary of the two War Between the States battles fought in Saltville, Va., on Oct.

In no hurry, John Rice Irwin showed off his exhibits at the Museum of Appalachia.

SALTVILLE, Va. - Patrolman Randall Brickey with the town's Police Department was out of isolation and back at work last week after battling a likely case of swine flu.

A group of about 46 descendants and/or relatives of Zachariah Henry Bailey, a veteran of the War of 1812, gathered on a hillside in rural McDowell County to dedicate a new military headstone honoring his service, and to share stories of the impact made on the region by the Bailey family.

It's a mountain of mystery, legend and wonder. And it's been visited by some fairly famous folks - including Thomas Jefferson's father, Peter, who surveyed the southern border of Virginia in the mid-1700s. For nearly 60 years, too, Doug Ogle has been going to Virginia's Whitetop Mountain.

More than $2 million in federal economic stimulus money will flow to four Southwest Virginia health clinics, U.S. Rep.

Country-rocker Clay Davidson grew up in a large musical family in Saltville, VA.

Debbie Lambert looked over a pile of charred floorboards that she had planned to use to finish out the bedroom of her Maple Avenue dream house.