Lynchburg City Schools will begin daily metal detector screenings at Heritage High School, district officials said. Students are to enter at their usual door, walk through a metal-detection frame or be scanned by a hand-held detector before classes begin.

Halifax County is now on its third finance director since January, following two departures tied to public comments by members of the Halifax County Board of Supervisors

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism.

Greenpeace is fighting for its life in North Dakota, where a lawsuit threatens the environmental group's future with a judgment of hundreds of a millions of dollars in damages awarded to a pipeline company.

NBC is bringing back its classic NBA broadcast crew for a throwback game, with Bob Costas, Doug Collins and Mike Fratello calling Spurs versus 76ers on Tuesday night.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration plans to start offering bonus payments to agency drug reviewers who complete their work ahead of the schedule.

A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms.

There’s new back-and-forth between Lynchburg City Councilman Marty Misjuns and City Manager Wynter Benda, and it’s all documented in a series of letters between the two.

Lynchburg City Schools will begin daily metal detector screenings at Heritage High School, district officials said. Students are to enter at their usual door, walk through a metal-detection frame or be scanned by a hand-held detector before classes begin.

Lynchburg’s Jamarcus Brown earns rookie of the year

Lynchburg Water Resources, in partnership with contractors Hazen and Sawyer, and Whitman, Requardt and Assoicates will begin to conduct free inspections of customers’ water service line materials in select locations throughout the city as part of the LWR’s Pure Pipe Lynchburg program, officials said.

The Lynchburg Police Department announced that it had arrested a 21-year-old man following two separate burglaries at the same business earlier this month.

The Lynchburg police department announced Wednesday that a 9-year-old boy was injured after a motor vehicle crash involving a pedestrian.

The Lynchburg City Council voted 4-2 to extend a citywide youth curfew for another year after debate about safety and enforcement. Supporters point to fewer youth-involved incidents; opponents question enforcement and parental responsibility. Reporting is based on remarks from city officials and parents.

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to his role in a two-year scheme to defraud a Lynchburg doctor out of nearly $500,000, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill “before anything else.”.

An estimated 32.6 million people have watched President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on television.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s misleading for members of the House to say their package of aviation safety reforms would address the recommendations that her agency made in January to prevent another midair collision like the one last year near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration plans to start offering bonus payments to agency drug reviewers who complete their work ahead of the schedule.

President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments.

A federal judge said that the IRS broke the law by illegally sharing thousands of taxpayers’ addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.