Jonesville News

JONESVILLE, Va. a ' Lee County authorities tracked down a suspected burglar after two reported convenience store break-ins lead them across county lines.

The first of more than 70 area Virginia Department of Transportation employees received pink slips Monday, as the agency strives to meet a legislative mandate for its number of employees.

After an extended executive session, the Lee Board of Supervisors continued their December meeting on Monday night, which had previously been recessed.

Eight individuals were arrested in Lee County recently on charges relating to the distribution of Oxycontin and several are repeat drug offenders.

Tens of thousands of power customers across the Tri-Cities region were without power Saturday night.

Budget reductions for Lee County Constitutional Offices was the leading topic at the Lee County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday evening.

Marsh Regional Blood Center will hold a memorial blood drive for Ephraim Batten, an infant who died tragically this summer, Saturday, Sept.

JONESVILLE, Va. a ' While Lee County schools have had some problems in the past with meeting state education guidelines, there was a noticeable improvement this year.

JONESVILLE, Va. - The Virginia Department of Transportation started full-time facility and staffing reductions in June, due to a sharp decline in state revenue and the uncertainty of future federal funding.

JONESVILLE, Va. a ' Lee County authorities thwarted a prison escape over the weekend at the United States Penitentiary, located eight miles east of Jonesville, Va.

Corbin Police reported the arrest of a Virginia man on kidnapping charges after he allegedly jumped into the driver's seat of his girlfriend's car and drove off.

Aware of the intense poverty in Appalachia, I thought that I understood the great challenges we would be facing in Jonesville, Va.

Inspirational is not a term that should be used lightly, but it is definitely a term that could be used to describe the 5th Annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Lee County that took place at Leeman Field on Friday evening.

JONESVILLE, Va a ' A Kentucky couple had a scheme to walk out of the Jonesville, Va., Wal-Mart with buggies full of expensive merchandise a ' and it worked, three separate times in an hour.

The Roanoke human services offices on Williamson Road were evacuated when a gas leak was reported Friday morning, fire officials said.

A southwest Virginia woman who pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $488,000 from a bank will spend more than three years in prison.

Lee Regional Hospital officials brought their concerns to the Lee County Board of Supervisors during the Board's regular meeting Tuesday night.