Appomattox County News

A driver falls asleep and flips his truck in Appomattox County early this morning, causing some traffic delays.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Friday that $28.7 million in refinancing savings would be distributed to 28 Virginia school divisions and the Literary Fund.

Virginia Attorney General Bill Mims announced price gouging settlements with two gas stations late last week.

Lynchburg and Amherst Co., VA - Starting Monday, students in our area will begin to receive the H1N1 vaccine.

Appomattox Co., VA - The driver of a big-rig truck has been charged with reckless driving after police say he lost control and then over-corrected Tuesday afternoon on Route 460 in Appomattox County.

Richard Samuel Alden McCroskey III, accused in the deaths of four people found at a Longwood University professor's home Slain Appomattox County pastor remembered as gifted and compassionate Slain Farmville mom, daughter had counseling over music The father of Farmville quadruple-homicide victim Melanie Wells drove from West Virginia to pick her up ...

In this Sept. 12, 2009 photo released by Razakel are shown Emma Niederbrock, left, Melanie Wells, center, and Razakel, after a horrorcore festival in Southgate, Mich.

The fireball that sent a shock wave through Appomattox a year ago has reverberated throughout the pipeline industry and made the town a household name in other communities with pipelines.

Appomattox Co., VA - In northern Appomattox County, the small church that was home to Reverend Neiderbrock is mourning the loss of its pastor.

Church members and friends are remembering the Rev. Mark Niederbrock as a man devoted to God who struggled with his daughter's fixation on macabre music.

Farmville police now say they were inside a Longwood University professor's house with a California man less than 24 hours before officers would find four bodies in the home and pinpoint him as a suspect.

Updated 9:41 a.m. Sept. 21 A hearing this morning for the accused killer of four here will be held by video conference.

Police captured a young California man at Richmond International Airport yesterday and charged him in the slayings of four people at the Farmville home of a Longwood University professor.

A former Appomattox County social services employee will serve more than a year in prison on charges she forged checks drawn from the state agency's accounts.

An accident has resulted in the closure of both westbound lanes of US 460 at Virginia 647 near Spout Spring in Appomattox County.

Appomattox Co., VA - Local parents say a blind hill, speeding 18-wheelers, and too few bus stop signs have the makings of a terrible accident waiting to happen.

Campbell Co., VA - Police are searching for suspects after a home invasion of an elderly couple in Gladys Tuesday.

At least one Appomattox County man is facing charges in connection to a home invasion in Campbell County on Tuesday evening where an elderly woman was gagged and her house ransacked, officials said.

APPOMATTOX, Va. - A couple of weeks into her 40th year at the same job and coming up on her 65th birthday, Appomattox Clerk of Courts Barbara Williams sat in her office Thursday and cried just a little.

Dustin Francis of Nathalie has been selected as this yeara s Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Outstanding Young Agriculturalist.