Bedford County News

Camp Virginia Jaycee's programs for people with disabilities are closed but reservations still stand for private groups who have rented the facility on weekends, according to camp spokesman Tom King.

A camp for people with disabilities in Bedford County has closed for the rest of the summer after what its operators call a medical incident involving a camper.

They took the hardware from a house at 1094 Pinebluff Drive in Bedford County, near the City of Lynchburg.

Bradley S. Rees, a Bedford County resident, said he will seek the Republican Party nomination to run for the Fifth District seat in the House of Representatives in 2010.

Two days after a fire destroyed a mall in Forest , business owners are still at the scene.

"I have fixed myself comfortably, keep some books here, brings others occasionally, am in the solitude of a hermit.

A Bedford County man charged with making a February bomb threat was arrested Tuesday, according to Maj.

Investigators say discarded smoking materials are the likely cause of a fire that destroyed a shopping center in Bedford County.

Authorities said this morning they do not believe a fire that destroyed a Forest shopping center on Saturday was intentionally set.

A Bedford County man is behind bars, charged with threatening to bomb the courthouse back in February.

Bedford County's Fire and Rescue Department will release findings of an investigation tomorrow into what caused a large-scale fire that destroyed a Forest shopping center over the weekend.

Bedford County has awarded a contract to Roanoke-based Wingate Appraisal Service to conduct the upcoming reassessment of county real estate.

Bedford Co., VA - A Bedford County child abuse case was in court Tuesday. Lynda McKay pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of contributing to the neglect or abuse of a minor.

June 22, 2009 A Bedford County community rallys by carrying on cycling tradition Cyclists from all over meet up at the Blackwater Bike Shop on Route 221 to ride 11, 18 sometimes even 22 miles.

Business owners spent Sunday sifting through the mess that the fire left behind.

Both lanes of Route 221 in Forest are currently shutdown between Graves Mill and Cotton town Roads in Bedford County for a fire that destroyed a strip mall Saturday evening.

Watch WSLS at 11:00 p.m. for video from the scene, and interviews with witnesses 8:20 p.m. Forest Fire Dept.

Cats, cats and more cats! Angels of Assisi has rescued its share in the last couple of months.

A former Campbell and Bedford County sheriff's deputy who had appealed a stalking conviction in May pleaded guilty Thursday to an amended charge.

Blue Ridge P.E.T.S. , a group of handlers and their dogs who work with children in schools and libraries, will be part of SML Good Neighbors, Inc., summer camps.