Bedford County (Virginia)

Thousands of people are without power after Thursday's storms. According to the Appalachian Power website, as of 5:35 p.m., here are some of the latest outage numbers: -In Roanoke County, more than 17,000 customers do not have electricity. -In...

People living near the scene of a deadly accident in Bedford County are calling for safety improvements. Mariah Skalka was driving on Route 122 near Bunker Hill Wednesday night when she hit a truck.  Her passenger, Elizabeth Wilson, was killed. The...

Police have released names of those involved in Wednesday night’s double fatal in Bedford County. According to the Virginia State Police, Mariah Skalka, 21, was traveling her Plymouth Breeze eastbound on Route 122 near Joppa Mill Road around 7:15...

State Police are investigating a suspicious package in Bedford County.  It was found in the 44-hundred block of Perrowville Road in Forest just before 11:30 Wednesday morning.  The item was found in a mailbox.  Bedford County deputies called the...

Bedford County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public's help with finding a man who robbed a convenience store in Forest Monday night. Someone from the QuikE Food Mart in Forest called 911 at 10:05 p.m. Monday to report the robbery. According to a...

Harry Enoch, Sun columnist and local historian, has prepared a series of articles from his upcoming book about one of the area’s most important pioneers, Capt. Billy Bush. Southwest Virginia Castlewood on Clinch, 1771 After Billy Bush left home,...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — A fatal wreck at a sobriety checkpoint on U.S. 460 is being investigated as suspicious. Virginia State Police First Sgt. Michael Bailey says a vehicle driven by 25-year-old Emerson Evans was traveling about 50 miles per hour...

Clean water and peaceful surroundings have led hundreds of people to make Ivy Lake in Bedford County their home. "We've enjoyed the beauty of it and the wildlife associated with it," said David Roberson, who has lived at the lake since it was...

A record number of turkeys were harvested during the 2013 spring season, according to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The 2013 harvest of 19,265 birds exceeded the previous number (18,345) set in 2002. Bedford County recorded the...

Dorothy Elizabeth Papa, 89, of Hagerstown, Md., passed away surrounded by her loving family on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, of respiratory failure at Meritus Medical Center. Born Dec. 5, 1923, on a small farm between Buffalo Mills and Hyndman (Bedford County)...

A man who led a Bedford County deputy on a high speed chase faces a number of charges. On Thursday around 9:30 p.m., a Bedford County deputy sheriff saw a motorcycle traveling east on 460 west of Montvale traveling 79 mph. According to the news...

Dorothy Papa learned her work ethic on the farm during her childhood in Bedford County, Pa., then later after she and her husband bought a farm on Alternate U.S. 40 between Funkstown and Boonsboro. “She grew up on a farm and ended up on a farm,&...