Bristol News

* A Prince Street woman reported hearing "lots of screaming from somewhere behind her property" at 7 p.m. Police found nothing.

A bright autumn sun lit the annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Bristol on Saturday, glinting off brass instruments, medals pinned to dress uniforms and shoes spotlessly shined.

BY ROGER BROWN bristol herald courier After all of the noise, court summonses and wailing sirens produced during his ongoing debate with the Bristol Tennessee Police Department over its firing range near the Patterson Hill Road demolition landfill - and his property - Arthur Roberts hopes for something else when city officials meet with him and ...

Retired Air Force Capt. Wiley Webb Jr., now real estate broker in Bristol, said he was impressed with the crowed before him at the Bristol War Memorial, because of the presence of so many high school ROTC units - and the old veterans who can still get into their Class A uniforms.

The new basketball court at Virginia High School won't be named in honor of former Bearcat Coach Ballard Lee - at least not yet.

When Scythian's high-mileage tour bus rolls back into the Twin City, it will signal more than another performance by the high-energy group that has become a local favorite.

BRISTOL, Tenn. - The United Way of Bristol Tenn.-Va. may miss its fundraising goal for the second year in a row, Executive Director Lisa Cofer said this afternoon.

Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday as independent voters who last year helped deliver the state to President Barack Obama handed the GOP a convincing victory.

BRISTOL. Va. - Incumbent Terry Frye scored a convincing victory Tuesday to remain the city Commissioner of Revenue for a third consecutive term.

Clear skies and bottles of hand sanitizer will greet Southwest Virginia voters as they head to the polls today.

An abandoned bathing suit factory was pitch black when the Bristol Virginia SWAT Team inched inside Thursday morning.

Bristol Virginia Police Department Oct. 29 * Two sisters got into a midnight fist fight on Barker Lane.

Two women making their initial bid for public office are vying to become the next city treasurer.

The proposed King College medical school gained considerable traction Thursday, receiving a $25 million grant that assures it would be built in Virginia.

An Abingdon woman was arrested Tuesday after police accused her of raping her live-in girlfriend's young daughter at least 11 times in three years.

A Bristol, Tenn., woman has been charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy of whom she was guardian.

Bristol Virginia Police Department Oct. 23 * A man returned to retrieve his child from his white car, parked across the street from State Line Bar & Grille, just two minutes after someone called police to report that the child had been left alone inside the car.

As the gubernatorial election nears the home stretch, a slew of Virginia newspapers have endorsed candidates.

Bristol Virginia Police Department Oct. 23 * He wasn't sure, but the Cumberland Street man who called at 1:44 a.m. thought his girlfriend might have broken his nose during a fight.

BY CLAIRE GALOFARO BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Several years ago, a little kid came to Tom Hite's Euclid Avenue door wearing a trash bag and a very real and very large pumpkin on his head.