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According to a response filed in Halifax County Circuit Court, defendant Thomas Lewis, an investigator with the Halifax/South Boston Narcotics and Gang Unit, is seeking to have a $5.35 million lawsuit thrown out.

The first of several funerals for the victims of last week's mass slaying in Appomattox County was held Sunday afternoon in Lynchburg under a shroud of fog and light rain.

Employees at a skating rink in Appomattox are planning a memorial benefit for three of the victims police say were gunned down by Chris Speight.

Police have identified the eight victims of the deadly shootings in Appomattox county.

Appomattox County High School students are grappling with the loss of three classmates who were among the eight killed in Tuesday's shooting.

Update: 9:00p.m. Law enforcement officials have charged Christopher B. Speight, 39, of Appomattox, Va., with one count of First Degree Murder involving the deaths of eight individuals.

Since the Hook provided a slideshow of the popular 8:49am Northeast Regional train's nearly on-time departure on Monday, it seems only fair to follow up with few less sunny details.

Eastern parts of the WSLS viewing area may have felt a brief rumbling Thursday evening.

One of the first working gold mines in Virginia opened in 1806, near Fredericksburg, among hundreds that sprang up along a thin gold belt that stretches from the Northeast as far south as Alabama.

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.