Rocky Mount News

Pictures flashed on a screen showcasing her favorite things: family, friends, fellowship, her grandson, bowling, dancing and having a good time.

Staff Photo: The Town of Rocky Mount hopes to get grant money to convert the old Lynch Hardware building into a music venue to take advantage of Rocky Mount s status as the Eastern Gateway to the Crooked Road.

A five-year prison sentence was imposed on a Rocky Mount woman Monday for embezzlement, but the case will be reviewed in 6 months.

Jobs are already the buzzword of candidates and potential candidates in Rocky Mount, even with town council elections still months away.

VDOT's 511Virginia.org shows a crash is blocking all lanes of Route 122 in Franklin County, northeast of Rocky Mount.

Ann Love, a member of Rocky Mount Town Council, will seek a four-year term on council in the May 1 election.

The Abbeville-based Great Southern Wood Preserving Inc. says its subsidiaries have purchased the Rocky Top Building Products companies based in Rocky Mount, Va.

The Little Roy and Lizzy Show is coming to the Franklin County High School auditorium on Saturday, Jan.

Billie Wayne Stockton has announced his intention to seek a seat on Rocky Mount Town Council in the May election.

Recently, I was traveling home to Roanoke from North Carolina on U.S. 220 and came upon a funeral procession heading from Rocky Mount to Boones Mill.

A teenager was killed and four people suffered injuries in a high-speed pileup on rural Booker T. Washington Highway near Rocky Mount on Monday afternoon, police said.

State Police are investigating a deadly crash in Franklin County. According to Sergeant Robert Carpentieri, of State Police's Salem Division, at least one person died in a crash on Route 122, about two miles northeast of Rocky Mount.

There is no section in the state budget titled "Children." Services to protect the youngest Virginians from hunger, abuse, neglect, homelessness and hopelessness are scattered throughout $85 billion in line items.

Photo by Charles Boothe: Rocky Mount District Supervisor Charles Wagner receives a gavel from David Cundiff, new chairman of the board, at Tuesday s board meeting.

A charge of sodomy against a Rocky Mount man was certified to a grand jury during a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Franklin County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

BIRTHDAY GUY: Actor Jesse L. Martin was born in Rocky Mount, Va., on this date in 1969.

Representatives of Shentel, the cable television provider in Rocky Mount and Franklin County, said that the company has spent millions of dollars in the past two years to upgrade its cable, internet and home phone services.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: A new $391,355 pumper fire truck, replacing the one destroyed in the fatal crash on July 26, 2010, arrived in Rocky Mount Thursday evening.

Staff Photo by Morris Stephenson: VDOT s single-lane bridge over the U.S. 220 South bypass will be replaced with a wider one on Tripple Creek Road with bids scheduled to be received May 13.

Council voted Monday night to add the Route 40 bypass feasibility study to the town's list of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies that are submitted annually to the U.S. Department of Commerce.