Dillwyn News

A driver on Route 20 in Buckingham county says a squirrel is what caused him to slam into a guardrail, setting his car on fire.

Stories vary as to what happened at the Stanardsville home of Pamela Collier the night of September 15, 2007.

Two months after volunteers applied the first fresh paint to a 20-year-old mural on a U.S. 250 train underpass, the gateway to Waynesboro is still faded and tagged with graffiti.

For this week's cover story , J. Tobias Beard climbs aboard the James River Rambler, an excursion train for true railfans.

Some people really love trains. Railfans they call themselves. Train buffs. What the railway workers sometimes derogatorily call foamers because they foam at the mouth when they see a train.

A Pamplin man who officers said killed his wife and a man in the parking lot of a Prince Edward County nightclub before shooting himself remained in critical but stable condition yesterday.

In Prince Edward County, two people were shot and killed outside a nightclub, and deputies say the shooter then tried to take his own life.

Anyone of a certain age remembers fondly the children's story about "The Little Engine That Could." All he needed to do to pull his train over the mountain was to stay positive and say to himself, "I think I can, I think I can." Well, the Buckingham Branch Railroad is the little railroad that could.