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The arrival of cold weather is the start of house fire season - as the temperature drops people begin using furnaces, wood stoves, fireplaces and other, sometimes questionable, heating systems that have sat ...

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It started about a week before Barack Obama was elected America's first black president.

It's not enough just to build trails like the Virginia Creeper, the host of PBS's America's Walking said at a conference here Friday; to improve health, communities must be built to facilitate walking and ...

A Bulls Gap, Tenn., man arrested Wednesday became the third Exotic Illusions customer charged with indecent exposure since the adult book store opened three years ago.

Thousands of bees escaped after a tractor-trailer hauling bees to the Gulf Coast was struck on Interstate 81.

Governor Timothy M. Kaine recently announced appointments to the following boards and commissions: Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission Jim A. Baldwin of Abingdon, executive director of the ...

Damascus needs a lesson in hiring protocol after recently trying to lure another town's clerk away to work, then rescinding the job offer while claiming a conflict of interest.

Town Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to hire Tuesday Pope as the town's clerk.

Just as one Damascus, Va., controversy appears to be settled, another rears its head in the small Washington County, Va., town.

The Damascus Town Council hired a police chief and a clerk after a lengthy closed-session meeting on Wednesday.

The Washington County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously at its regular meeting Tuesday to pursue two facilities projects: a new branch library in the Benhams community and possible use of the Johnston ...

Seven graduates from local high schools were given scholarships totalling $14,500. John Ribble was given an inaugural scholarship honoring Walter Hunt, the late former superintendent of Salem City Schools.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.

Software engineer Keith Brown was conducting a meeting by teleconference at home when he had to call an abrupt halt. Dido, one of the family's two dogs, had just brought in a dead opossum.

Welcome to the professional life in this slice of rural southwest Virginia.

Like many before him, the 42-year-old Brown left this region of rolling hills and verdant valleys after high school because he saw no future outside farming and mining.

'I only left because there were no opportunities,' he said.