Bristol News

Ira Baker, 6, of Bristol, Tenn., dances to "Rock Around the Clock" with her dad, Chad Baker, at the father-daughter dance.

A State Street woman wanted to talk with an officer about "someone coming in and stealing something" out of her store.

It has long been my pleasure to introduce the present generation of Bristolians to pioneers of this city of whom they have never heard.

For more than a decade, Dr. Guy V. Briggs has been working on the stories of his small book, "Pop Song Magic: Have An Affair With Your Favorites." This paperback explores how pop songs ignite joy and ecstasy as well as how pop songs invite what he calls "magic" into the brain.

An Abingdon firm plans to relocate its ethanol recycling operation to a vacant city building, which has already drawn concern from some nearby residents and could spark debate at Tuesday's City Council meeting.

Road crews were preparing Friday for what local meteorologists were expecting to be a true taste of winter this weekend.

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Rita Paniagua, executive director of the Spanish Action League, had a foot in two worlds: arts and sports.

DAVID CRIGGER/BRISTOL HERALD COURIER - Bristol, Va., Mayor Ed Harlow talks about being featured in a chapter of the new book "The Other Irish" by Karen F. McCarthy.

The U.S. Postal Service notified the airport that the facility will cease operations March 26.

A Bluff City, Tenn., woman has been charged with felony child neglect after a baby was left in a car at a grocery store.

The Leisure Park Towers Neighborhood Watch will meet at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 16 at the apartment complex in Bristol, Va.

Charles Vess's magical art work is represented in this copyrighted image of "The Daemon Lover," contributed by Vess and Delia Sherman.

The Bristol Public Library's Discovery Series will have a more serious tone in 2012, with one very prominent exception: author Adriana Trigiani.

The American flag is the symbol for freedom in America and should be treated with respect.

Earl Neikirk/Bristol Herald Courier - Ground is broken for the Beaver Creek flood reduction project Tuesday during a press conference with the US Army Corps of Engineers.

The bomb scare at Stonewall Jackson Elementary School tonight turned out to be a false alarm.

Bristol, Va. police received a call about a suitcase that had been left sitting outside of the school around 2:40 p.m., said Major Sean Carrigan.

Pat Holtsclaw, president of Mountain States Foundation; Tim Copenhaver, president at Champion Chevrolet Cadillac; raffle winners Steve and Laura Keeble; Andy Dietrich, owner/vice-president at Champion Chevrolet Cadillac JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.

City school leaders hope more funding is coming from the state because they expect a shortfall for their fiscal 2012-13 budget.

There were "13 people" screaming and cursing in the breezeway of an apartment building on 2nd Street, a caller said.