Franklin News

VDOT has a new warning to truckers. Don't rely on GPS. Navigation devices tell drivers to use Route 116 to get back and forth between Roanoke and Franklin County.

Isle of Wight County and Suffolk are expected to draw multiple warehouse and distribution centers over the next two decades, as the Port of Virginia develops.

Alcoa Howmet, blaming a collapse in demand for industrial gas turbines, said Wednesday that it cut the work force at its Hampton plant by 250 jobs this week.

Franklin County has joined Roanoke County in a request to restrict trucks on a portion of Virginia 116.

The Virginia Department of Health has confirmed a fourth death related to swine flu in Hampton Roads: a woman from the Western Tidewater Health District - which includes Suffolk, Isle of Wight County, Southampton County and Franklin.

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Salem City Schools are closing two hours early. Patrick Henry Community College's Franklin County site has cancelled all day and night clases.

Authorities are looking for a man who robbed a Rocky Mount bank Thursday morning.

The Franklin News-Post P. O. Box 250 310 Main Street, SW Rocky Mount, Virginia 24151 540-483-5113 Fax: 540-483-8013 BREAKING NEWS: Police searching for suspect in U.S. 220 North bank robbery Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Area law enforcement agencies are searching for a suspect in connection with a morning armed robbery at Franklin Community Bank on ...

The robbery happened at the Franklin Community Bank on Shepard Road, across from Duncan Ford.

Northumberland shut out Franklin, 3-0, in a Region A volleyball quarterfinal game Monday night to advance to the tournament semifinals on Thursday, November 12, at King William.

It's unclear whether the Grand Jury will simply issue a report or if criminal charges will be part of it.

Lt. J.D. Williams had only been on the Newport News police force a few years on an autumn night in 1969, when police were searching for three men wanted for burglaries in Franklin.

With the spring 2010 closure of International Paper's mill in Franklin, the Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors is delaying a request for a new rescue vehicle.

Franklin County was voted in as a full-fledged member Thursday of the Western Virginia Water Authority by the governing bodies that already made up the regional utility.

Franklin County joined Roanoke City and Roanoke County Thursdy morning as a member of the Western Virginia Water Authority .

By Jim Tuttle Smithfield Times Staff Writer Since the announcement that International Paper will close its operations in Franklin, 1,100 people, their families and the surrounding community have struggled to digest the news.

Isle of Wight Supervisor Phillip Bradshaw says International Paper Corp. will be billed for discharging millions of gallons of unauthorized wastewater through the county's sewer system.

Men get breast cancer , too. That's the message that George N. Williams Jr., 68, is bringing to any men who will listen.

The state is moving in to Franklin to help people find new jobs now that their biggest employer is closing.