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Mason Clark, 3, has a skull painted on his face by Debby Cross while his mother,Ashley Clark watches on at the Imagine Children's Festival, which was a part of the River District Festival on Oct.8. The city of Danville and Danville Regional Foundation are working together to bring about a renaissance of Danville's River District - an area spanning ... (more)

Fire damaged a passenger bus at 130 Carolyn Court and threatened a vacant house on Saturday afternoon.

Lewis Crews prepares to knead more dough while owner Michael Hall takes the last Heart-shaped cookie on the cutting board to take to the oven during the daunting task of creating 2,000 of these holiday treats at Hall's Pastry Shop on Feb.

"If we can keep one child from going to a drug-dealing lifestyle, then it's worth all the resources," Judge Michael Urbanski said.

The Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors hopes Centra Health will locate to the county, but officials with the company have not talked with supervisors, said a company spokeswoman.

Danville, VA - In downtown Danville sits an unexpected site, a super computer inside a tobacco warehouse that was built in the 1800's. The super computer, named Dan River, was put in place thanks to the Virginia Tobacco Commission and the technology company Noblis, with hopes to reenergize a section of Dan River that had been abandoned by tobacco ... (more)

Approximately 130 high school students are expected to participate in the District III SkillsUSA Competition, hosted by Danville Community College on Saturday.

The National Academy of Sciences recently launched its five month public outreach effort in Danville, VA to "brief" the VA public on its recently released report on uranium mining, as required under the NAS agreement with Virginia Tech.

Board members of the Industrial Development Authority of Danville on Thursday approved financial help to renovate space downtown so a small startup technology-based company could lease it.

Dan River Grand Prix employee Paige Strader runs a go kart around the track on Feb.

The man who was on trial for the shooting death of Johnny Flando Calloway in what the state called a "drug robbery gone bad" was acquitted of murder Thursday but got 17 years in prison for robbery and firearms charges.

You can mark this down as one of those "power of World of Bluegrass" stories, where it happened that I had to go to Nashville to discover a trio of super-talented siblings who live only a short distance from my home in southwestern Virginia.

All of these familiar love songs and more will be performed live Tuesday at the Stratford Courtyard Conference Center for the Little Theatre of Danville's Valentine's Day show "Love: a Reasonable Affliction." After last year's sellout crowd, the Little Theatre decided to renew its musical show in cabaret style with dinner - and a rose for all the ... (more)

There was no verdict today in the trial of the shooting death of Johnny Flando Calloway.

On November 26, 2011, Otis D. Alexander became the Director of the GPL. Alexander is the former library director of Southeastern University, a defunct tertiary school in Washington, D.C. that lost its accreditation and closed in 2009, [1] and the Danville Public Library System in Virginia.

Audeince members look through the report during The National Research Council's public briefing on its scientific study, "Uranium Mining in Virginia," on Feb.

Danville City Council closed a loophole in its animal control ordinance Tuesday that had allowed some people to beat a charge of allowing their dog to run at large.

Recent entries: "She was only a moonshiner's daughter, but he loved her still" "She was only a moonshiner's daughter, but he loved her still" "In a democracy, your vote counts; in feudalism, your count votes" "A lot of money is tainted - 'taint yours and 'taint mine" "A clean tie attracts the soup of the day" More new entries... Listen to Robert ... (more)

Closing the branch library, one of the city's seven fire stations or one of four community centers were all mentioned as ways to close Danville's estimated $1.9 million budget gap during a special work session held Monday night.

DANVILLE, Va. - A federal judge is barring the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors from opening meetings with Christian prayers until a lawsuit challenging the practice is settled.