Thaxton News

Charged with members of his family in a volunteer fire department embezzlement scandal, Thaxton resident Cory Mitchell Shifflett threw himself on the mercy of the court Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia is offering to defend a Bedford County blogger arrested last month after posting a police officer's address on her blog.

Elisha Strom still sits in a northern Virginia jail cell, unable to make bail. The 34-year-old woman from Thaxton, Virginia is charged with a felony, serious stuff you might say.

A Roanoke man was indicted Friday on charges relating to a string of burglaries in Bedford County.

A Roanoke man was indicted Friday on charges relating to a string of burglaries in Bedford County.

A Bedford County started a blog about an undercover police force and is now behind bars.

A Thaxton woman will spend six years in prison for her role in a January 2008 shooting.

A Thaxton man had to be flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital on Sunday afternoon after he crossed both sides of the U.S. 460 bypass in Bedford and struck a tree.

Summertime school-related maintenance will be a focus tonight at a Bedford County School Board meeting.

May 15, 2009 Bedford County church hosts job fair A Bedford County church found a new way to give back to the community Friday.

A group of second through sixth graders from Thaxton Elementary School in Bedford County got to cruise on the Virginia Dare at Smith Mountain Lake on Friday, for meeting their Spring reading goals.

Bedford Co., VA - Counselors are at Liberty High school in Bedford County after a student died in a car crash with two other teens on Wednesday.