Henry County

The Virginia Tech fishing team, made up of Andrew Jackson and Patrick Snellings, won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Northern Conference event in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on Sunday. Jackson and Snellings were last-minute entries. The duo reeled in...

Sunday, July 1 Bedford County: Moneta FireWORX Fest Where: Downtown Moneta (Rt. 122 and White House Road) When: Gate opens at 5:30 p.m.; music by The WORX Band starts at 6 p.m.; fireworks start at about 10 p.m. Cost: $5 a person; children 10 and under...

UPDATED 4:10pm Monday: From the Henry County Sheriff's Department: The Henry County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the name of the victim in the possible drowning at Seals Lake off Skyview Trail.  The victim’s name is Jose Luis Zaldivar-...

Update 5:52 a.m. - Both lanes of Route 220 have re-opened. Police say they probably won't ever know what caused the tree to fall. ----------------------- Virginia State Police are trying to move a tree from a road in Henry County. Henry County...

President Obama said in an exclusive interview with WDBJ7 on Monday that he has not forgotten a promise he made to Southern Virginians four years ago. Your Hometown News Leader is one of eight stations from around the country invited for a behind the...

The accident has been cleared. The northbound lane is moving again. ------------ Virginia State Police have charged the driver with Reckless Driving.  Troopers say he ran off the right side of the road, over corrected and ran into a ditch.  The truck...

Piedmont Transportation says they made a delivery mistake last week at the Fas Mart on Virginia Avenue in Collinsville. A spokesperson for the Chatham based company say a driver accidentally pumped gasoline instead of kerosene into an underground tank....

It's a dirty crime and a handful of sheriffs in southwest Virginia wish it wasn't one they had to deal with so often. In at least two counties, if you dump your trash where you shouldn't, 'Big Brother' may be watching you. It's not only getting worse,...

Two Bassett men have been indicted by a Henry County grand jury for their role in a 2010 murder. Lamont "BG" Miller was found in a shallow grave behind 110 Penrose Drive in Bassett on November 17, 2010. 39-year-old Patrick Antonio Gilbert and 23-year-...

Governor McDonnell and most of his cabinet welcomed ICF International in Martinsville Monday. IFC International officially opened its doors Monday in Henry County with Governor Bob McDonnell, Lt. Bill Bolling, most of the governor's cabinet and the...

Potentially life-saving medical care will now just be a helicopter flight away from Southern Virginia. A medical helicopter will now be based at the Blue Ridge airport in Henry County. Wake Forest Baptist Health and Air Methods Corporation announced the...

A gunshot victim who was being rushed to the hospital when the car he was in crashed in Henry County had been shot 10 times. Three other people in the car died as a result of the accident. An autopsy revealed that Lamar Ward died as a result of the...