Bristol News

* As an Osborne Street man was on the phone with police to say "he wanted the law to this location," a man in the background shouted "no" and the phone went dead.

BRISTOL, Va. - Fred Hanselmann creeped through a cul-de-saced residential neighborhood behind Bonham Road with the back gate of his red minivan wide open.

Being rich, prominent or famous in no way gives assurance that you will not become a lost burial site in a cemetery somewhere.

BRISTOL, Va. - Improperly stored flammable liquids were blamed Saturday for a fire in a storage room at Logan's Restaurant on Linden Drive, fire officials said in a written statement.

BRISTOL, Va. - Washington County Sheriff's deputies responding to a call for help early today found a woman dead in her yard and her husband dead in the home.

The 16,417 customers of Bristol Virginia Utilities got an early holiday present Thursday when the power company announced that December electric bills will be 18 percent lower than they were a year ago.

Councilman David Shumaker said Thursday he resigned from the Bristol Chamber of Commerce because of unease over its political activity - including opposition to health-care reform - but he strongly denied allegations in an anonymous flier that he angrily confronted Chamber President Lisa Meadows during a recent meeting.

A Bristol man got angry at his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter for not going to sleep so, police said, he grabbed her by the throat and held her down on a bed.

A man was arrested after firing a gun inside his girlfriend's Vance Street apartment about lunchtime Wednesday.

One of the Twin City's most historic downtown buildings goes on the auction block Friday.

The city's Redevelopment and Housing Authority unveiled aggressive plans Wednesday to replace or rehabilitate its buildings over the next 15 years.

City leaders plan to interview prospective city manager candidates early next month, but may not fill the impending vacancy until next year.

Touchstone Wireless will hire 200 to 300 full-time contractors at its West State Street facility over the next three months, a company executive said Tuesday.

While talking, she kept opening and closing her vehicle door." Unfortunately, the furniture store employee's car was parked just next to the cell phone talker's, yet it wasn't until the employee got home that she discovered damage to that side of her car.

Betty Harmon of Bristol, Va. is $52,000 richer today after taking second place in the Virginia Lottery's Win For Life Game.

BRISTOL, Va. - Fire gutted a trailer here Monday afternoon, leaving a family, already down on its luck, with no home, no clothes - not even a pair of shoes.

A controversial proposal by Haven of Rest to build an 18-bed women's residential facility and treatment center on Second Street was approved Monday night by the city's Planning Commission.

Eighty-five solders from Richmond's 276th Engineer Battalion are due back in Virginia after serving in Afghanistan since February.

Layoffs and budget cuts at the Virginia Department of Transportation won't affect snow removal this winter, VDOT officials said Monday.

BY DEBRA McCOWN BRISTOL HERALD COURIER ABINGDON, Va. - The Washington County Board of Supervisors gave zoning approval Tuesday for the second of two projects competing for a state certificate of need to build a nursing home near the new Johnston Memorial Hospital.