Wytheville News

Teenagers do some crazy things to celebrate their high school graduations. Chelsea Carter was no different.

He gave his life in the line of duty; now the Sheriff's Office wants others to give the gift of life to honor his memory.

A pedestrian was critically injured on Wednesday evening after being struck by a northbound tractor-trailer on Interstate 81 at the 72.5 mile marker, state police said.

Instead of just asking for donations a local free clinic is thinking outside the box to raise money.

Bye-bye Blizzards. Wytheville's Dairy Queen franchise dished out its last frozen treats Sunday night, closing its doors after 21 years in town.

CERES, Va. - H. Michael "Mike" Pruett, of Ceres, Va., went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 14, 2009.

David Coleman lives by Phil. 4:13 which says, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me." The Piney area resident attributes the verse of Scripture to his remarkable recovery from a debilitating stroke he suffered in January 1997 at the age of 41.

When Ron Boone won a Master Chef award for his homemade barbecue in the 1980s, he never thought about food as a career.

You've heard of art history. Rocky Gap High School, though, is trying out something new: history art.

There will be no additional stop signs at Fairway Lane and Sherwood Forest Road.

"Let the servants who perform the duties of their office well be considered doubly worthy of honor, especially those who labor faithfully in the word and teaching." I Timothy 5:17 Serving the Lord, his church, the community and country is a way of life for James R. Porter of Wytheville.

Wytheville and Wythe County are continuing negotiations to consolidate dispatch services.

A 45-year-old Wytheville man died Sunday afternoon after a golf cart overturned with him, police said.

Two hours after polls opened, only 7 percent or 1,402 of Pulaski County's 21,141 registered voters had cast ballots in Tuesday's general election.

Tuesday's general election produced at least one major upset on the local level.

Four people are accused of kidnapping and beating a Wytheville man. Deputies say they were called to Carroll drive Tuesday night and found Eddie Blankenship badly beaten.

Growing up in Wytheville, Bryan Underwood learned that exposure to first-rate local musical events was severely lacking.

The full tobacco commission met Thursday in Wytheville. In addition to $3 million in new tobacco money designated for county projects, on Thursday the commission also consolidated three previous grants for the Modeling and Simulation Center for Excellence and the Riverstone Energy Center, both housed at Riverstone Technology Park.

Plan B for Wythe County's long-discussed Appalachian Agricultural Exposition Center got an "A+" grade Tuesday from the Wythe County Board of Supervisors.

Wythe County's top prosecutor confirmed this week that police are looking into whether "dusting" - inhaling cans of compressed gas to get high - could have played a role in last weekend's head-on crash that killed two sisters.