Rustburg News

Not once, not twice, but three times, Campbell County rescue crews say they've responded to a call for a dead newborn baby in the last two years, and all three of those times the mother wasn't prosecuted.

How is it possible to have a fourth trimester? Read this item, which is perhaps the ugliest story to come along in awhile: A loophole in state law is preventing Campbell County investigators from charging a woman they say killed her newborn baby.

The recent death of a newborn in Campbell County has prompted lawmakers to begin drafting legislation to close a loophole in state law that prevents the infant's mother from being charged.

"I'd be delighted to sign the bill, they could even put an emergency clause on it, I'd sign it right away.

A Rustburg man pleaded guilty Wednesday to raping a 12-year-old Appomattox girl in early 2008.

A loophole in state law is preventing Campbell County investigators from charging a woman they say killed her newborn baby.

Campbell Co., VA - The case of a dead Rustburg baby could have statewide implications.

A spokesman from the Campbell County Sheriff's office says officers were called out to a home on Lone Jack Road in Rustburg Friday, where they found a deceased, full-term, newborn baby.

Campbell County School Board members voted Monday to adopt changes to the school's policy on parents who are sex offenders.

Campbell Co., VA - More skeletal remains have been found in Campbell County. Sheriff Terry Gaddy says a turkey hunter stumbled along the remains in a remote area near Poor House Road, about 1 ½ miles from Rustburg, down an old logging road.

Campbell County authorities released a tentative identification on very decomposed human remains found near Rustburg on Friday, the second body found in the county this week.

Welcome to the Richmond EMS Examiner's list of upcoming medical classes in and around Richmond! This is the only website you will need to find AMLS and GEMS provider and renewal classes in the ODEMSA, TJEMS, PEMS, REMS, and TEMS councils.

Remember all of those vehicles turned in under the Cash for Clunkers program? Most are now in area junk yards waiting to be salvaged for parts.

Magnitude: 2.7 Time: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 05:24:44 PM at epicenter Location: 37.346N, 78.793W Depth: 3.1 miles Distance From: 3 km ESE from Appomattox, VA 13 km NW from Pamplin City, VA 28 km ENE from Rustburg, VA 34 km E from Lynchburg, VA 119 km W from Richmond, VA 234 km SW from Washington, DC View a map of the earhquake location.

Police say a man was air lifted to Roanoke Memorial Hospital with life threatening injuries after a car accident on the Lynchburg Express Sunday.

An early morning crash on the Lynchburg Expressway has left a Rustburg man with life-threatening injuries.

Seniors in Campbell County now have a new place to go for help. The Central Virginia Area Agency on Aging has opened a satellite office at the New Vine Baptist Church on Old Rustburg Road.

Campbell Co., VA - A former Campbell County gym teacher will spend two years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child.

A former Rustburg Middle School teacher was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday in Campbell County Circuit Court after he admitted he asked two young girls to have sex with him.

Lots of government decision-makers have been regarding the latest consultant's study of ways to improve traffic flow on U.S. 29 as a curiosity rather than a concern.