Amherst County News

Jenkins is 5'9" tall and weighs 175'. He has brown eyes and black hair. Jenkins is wanted for failure to appear in court and was last known to live in the River View Road are of Madison Heights.

An Amherst County firefighter accused of using a fire station account to purchase gas for his personal vehicle is facing felony charges, according to authorities.

A Madison Heights teen will pay a $500 fine for improper driving that prosecutors say killed a two-year-old. And some of you are asking why the family of Omarion Rose also wasn't charged.

An Amherst County judge has found a woman not guilty of reckless driving, in connection to a toddler's death back in January.

An Amherst County woman is scheduled to be in court Tuesday, facing a charge in connection with a toddler's death.

Efforts to restore Amherst's historic train station have received a $220,000 boost.

A dog that beat incredible odds in Amherst County three years ago, is now facing another fight for his life.

A fire caused by a lightning strike temporarily displaced an Amherst County woman, and killed her two cats, on June 16.

High prices at the pump aren't just affecting the cost of food. Now it seems that even ministries and religious groups are feeling the crunch.

Radford City Schools has been awarded a $55,963 grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation.

Christy Hardy was among the 324 Amherst County students who walked out of the Vines Center at Liberty University two weeks ago with a high school diploma in hand.

A Roseland man is in the hospital after a head-on collision between his sedan and a tractor-trailer Tuesday evening in Amherst County.

The Amherst County Board of Supervisors made two appointments to the county's school board last week.

Former Amherst County Board of Supervisors candidate Timothy Alan Beverly was indicted today on a charge of aggravated malicious wounding.

Carolyn Farmer remembers one person who pulled into the gas station that she manages, determined to steal a tank of gas.

The below list is gleaned from marriages confirmed by the Amherst County Circuit Court Clerk's Office between April 23 and June 6. Edwin Joseph Ogden to Katrina Gaynelle Childress on Feb.

Before he was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, an admitted killer told Judge Michael Gamble that he had no remorse for murdering Michael Kent Jamerson.

A man from Augusta County will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a man near Lynchburg.

When Edith Law started Central Virginia's chapter of the Alzheimer's Association more than 25 years ago, it was a kitchen table operation with no money and little support.