Carroll County News

The Virginia Court of Appeals saw no cause to set aside the convictions of murder against a 23-year-old Carroll man in the Nov.

Carroll County has been my home for seventeen years. I have lived in Hillsville for almost four years now.

Divorce is an extremely stressful experience. Healing from the trauma of separation and divorce in isolation is exceedingly difficult.

Four weeks ago, The Carroll News began featuring Weekly Devotion, a weekly religious column on our church page that currently features a roster of five local pastors.

A 58-year-old Ivanhoe man has no more opportunities to appeal his murder conviction after the Virginia Supreme Court declined to hear his case recently.

From left: Christine Lyons, Doris Lyons and Guy Clark stand proudly in front of fully-stocked bookshelves inside the Lambsburg Community Center.

By popular demand, online merchant Red Hill General Store will grow its tiny real world retail space by an additional 4,000 square feet.

A local psychologist has pleaded guilty to medical assistance fraud and repaid more than $38,000 in Carroll County Circuit Court on Oct.

A student has been arrested, accused of making a bomb threat to Carroll County Intermediate School on November 6th.

A tractor-trailer crash has shut down one southbound lane of Interstate 77 at Fancy Gap, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.

For the fifth time in 2009, the Carroll County Public Service Authority has been awarded federal economic stimulus funds for a public water and/or wastewater system.

The Governing Board of Southwest Virginia Governor's School Tuesday unanimously approved a math summer camp and policy on premature school withdrawals.

The school day at Carroll County Intermediate came to an abrupt end after staff at the school opened an envelope with a double threat inside.

Elden Horton checks in with Elsie Cochran at Carroll County Intermediate School on Tuesday morning.

Letting people have their say in the appropriate venue is always a good thing. If thinking about a certain topic - say an electric utility's requested rate increase in recessionary times - creates a burning feeling in the pit of a citizen's stomach, it's that person's right to speak up.

Raising the hairs on the back of your neck is not the typical way a community action agency raises funds.

The Hillsville Volunteer Fire Department was called out around 2:00 AM this morning Stations 1, 2 and 3 responded to a Structure Fire at 3393 Oak Grove Road in the Laurel area of Carroll County.

Details remain to be ironed out in the public sewer cooperation between Galax and Carroll County, as the Woodlawn sewer system gets ready to come online.

After seeing the proposed increases in the Carroll Public Service Authority's rates, Hillsville officials wondered why the county found the town's prices so unaffordable back when they considered combining forces on public utilities.

One man accused of hauling 313 pounds of marijuana to an Interstate 77 exit in Carroll County has been sentenced to five years for his role in the incident, and a second suspect has pleaded guilty.