Afton News

WAYNESBORO - Kevin Cash ended a long absence from Victory Lane at Eastside Speedway on Friday night by winning the super pro competition.

The Nelson County Board of Supervisors has set two public hearings for September.

Jon Bellona has run more than 3,500 miles, and he's not tired - just a little sunburned.

A Charlottesville man has been charged with shooting a woman in the neck at a Waynesboro apartment complex Sunday night.

Hoping for smoother traffic on the area's busiest thoroughfares, the Virginia Department of Transportation is proposing to install more traffic-monitoring cameras in the Charlottesville region.

Brandon and Heather Maddox announce the birth of a son, Ashton Parker Maddox, born Dec.

Brandon and Heather Maddox announce the birth of a son, Ashton Parker Maddox, born Dec.

Police in Augusta County are searching for two men who allegedly held up the clerk at the Inn at Afton at gunpoint early Tuesday morning.

Police in Augusta County are searching for two men who allegedly held up the clerk at the Inn at Afton at gunpoint early Tuesday morning.

ASSESSMENT: $1,257,200 YEAR BUILT: 1876 SIZE: 2,794 fin. sq. ft., 150 unfin. LAND: 21 acres CURB APPEAL: 8 out of 10 AGENT: Ross Stevens, Stevens & Company 981-5268 When former Wahoo Edgar Allan Poe eulogized ...

Slade Allen Woodson, charged in the Interstate 64 shootings, pleaded guilty in Waynesboro Circuit Court today to six felony counts in connection with shots fired in Waynesboro.

The Augusta County Sheriffs Office has released the name of a drowning victim whose body was recovered from Sherando Lake shortly after 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

An unidentified man, 19, drowned Saturday afternoon at Sherando Lake, according to the Augusta County Sheriff's Department.

AFTON - Elmer Earl Myrtle, 79, husband of Audrey Myrtle of 537 Tanbark Drive, Afton, formerly of Lofton, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.

AFTON - Standing silently with a banjo in each hand, staring at a jaded U.S. patent examiner, Geoff Stelling knew he had something good.

Church to host Vacation Bible School: Vesuvius Baptist Church will host Vacation Bible School based on the theme Outrigger Island: Living God's Unshakable Truth.

Most hailish weather: Chunks of ice pummel Greene County, and a possible lightning strike enflames a house at 971 Grayson Lane in Redfields June 16.

The secluded, low-key Afton Motor Lodge became a hub of activity Wednesday afternoon after a tenant suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.

The man who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest Wednesday at the Afton Motor Lodge is in stable condition at the University of Virginia Medical Center, according to Albemarle police.

An unidentified, middle-aged man was airlifted to the University of Virginia Medical Center Wednesday after he was shot in the chest at an Afton motel, police said.