Bedford News

Hear Evelyn Kowalchuk describe her experience as a flight nurse in the days after the D-Day invasion in an audio-slideshow. Maybe it was curiosity or yearning for adventure that led Evelyn Kowalchuk to leave her New Jersey upbringing to become a flight nurse during World War II.

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Andrew Pollard rode his motorcycle here from Boston this week, carrying thank you letters from a high school at home, written to Lt.

Mark LaPerle, a Christian/folk/pop/ singer/musician from Bedford, Virginia performs for city of Joplin officials and a huge gathering at Cunningham Park, the final destination for the Walk of Unity held on May 22, 2012.

Facing a deficit of more than $1 million, the Bedford County School Board will work today on finalizing the division's 2013 fiscal budget.

Two people were airlifted from a single-vehicle wreck in Bedford County on Wednesday evening.

This Saturday, the Bower Center for the Arts in Bedford is hosting the 4th Annual Louisiana Crawfish Festival.

The crimson-coated Big Otter Mill a few miles north of Bedford on Virginia 122 has a history as a once-thriving gristmill.

For the first time in several years, the Bedford Board of Supervisors adopted a fiscal budget Monday that increases local funding to the county's school system.

The Bedford Police Department reported today it has obtained detention orders for two teenagers, both 14 years old, who are accused of breaking into Bedford Middle School early Sunday and damaging electronic equipment.

"Mmm-hmm, yeah. They crunch on my teeth," said Teresa Widener while eating her favorite snack -- rocks.

State Police are looking for a missing Mercer County man with Alzheimer's. Earl Wayne Haga, 76, was reported missing by his wife Monday afternoon.

Bedford officials made their case to Monday for the city of about 6,200 residents to become the third in Virginia to revert to a town.

Police spokeswoman Aisha Johnson said Monday that officers arrested Teresa Elizabeth Seagraves, 40, of Roanoke on one count of malicious wounding.

Bedford police are investigating a weekend school break-in, in which someone damaged a still-undetermined amount of electronic equipment, authorities said.

More than 100 workers will lose their jobs in Monroe as Gold Signature Foods shuts down its food processing plant, according to a notice filed Friday with the N.C. Department of Commerce.

A civil lawsuit filed against a former Bedford County deputy accused of having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl will be public despite of the nature of the allegations, a judge ruled Friday.

A proposed commercial and residential project called "Harmony" on U.S. 460 in western Bedford had some skeptics during a recent county rezoning.

The Bedford man who robbed the Goode Country Crossroad store last year was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday.

Bedford Fire Department firefighters and other emergency response workers carry suspected shooter Dennis Caldwell to an ambulance down the narrow road to his home on Haven Heights Drive in Bedford, Va., August 15, 2011.

The lure of having a greater say-so in planning and the use of tax money has some Christiansburg officials wondering about seeking independent city status - a step that would fly in the face of statewide trends of recent decades.