South Boston News

South Boston has been awarded a $700,000 Community Development Block Grant for the American Tobacco Warehouse Renovation Project, town officials learned yesterday.

The apparent low construction bid for the long-delayed uptown revitalization project in Rocky Mount is almost $2 million by a South Boston company.

A South Boston man was sentenced for second degree murder earlier this week. Court officials say 40-year-old Donald M. Edmunds was sentenced to 40 years, 22 of them, suspended.

Two people were killed in a two-car acci-dent Monday night in Halifax County, said 1st Sgt.

Tim White was one of the early graduates of the Davis & Elkins College hospitality management program, earning an associate of arts degree in food and beverage management from D&E in 1998.

The Halifax/South Boston Regional Narcotics and Gang Task Force conducted the round-up with local, state, and federal police.

A recent trip to the O'Gara Group Training Facility located in Halifax County, near South Boston and Danville, proved informative and cleared up a lot of speculation and misinformation--at least for me--that seems to have spread like wildfire around Westmoreland County.

Virginia's Secretary of Commerce and Trade was in Danville on Friday to launch a Web site designed to invite young professionals to come back home to Southside Virginia.

South Boston, VA - An eight-year-old girl is fighting for her life. South Boston resident Caroline Laughorn was diagnosed with Leukemia about a month ago.

Halifax Co., VA - The search for a missing Halifax County woman is going nationwide.

Sitting in the fading twilight at the end of a cookout 20 years ago, a group of World War II veterans fell to swapping stories.

The rain continues to fall leaving plenty of standing water. Water levels continue to rise on the Dan River near South Boston Friday morning.

June 2, 2009 Sister of missing Halifax County woman issues plea for answers Hattie Brown was last seen at the Sheetz on Routes 501 and 58 in South Boston around 2:30 a.m. May 16th.

A A State police tell us Brown was last seen Saturday, May 16 at the Sheetz gas station on Route 501 and Route 58 just outside of South Boston in Halifax County.A A surveillance camera shows Brown and her 2003 silver Volkswagen Jetta at the gas station around 2:33 a.m.A Police now say her nephew was at the gas station with her.

A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the safe recovery of Hattie Gertrude Brown and location of the 2003 VW Jetta bearing Virginia license number DV20505.

Two women are dead after a crash in Pittsylvania County late Saturday morning. Rescue workers pronounced 73-year-old Alice Kates Atkins of Danville dead at the scene.

A wreck Saturday morning claimed the lives of two Southside residents. The accident occurred at the intersection of Old Richmond Road and Kentuck Road in Pittsylvania County at about 11:20 a.m., according to Virginia State Police communications supervisor S.G. Thompson.

People came to Harrisonburg from across Virginia Wednesday for ideas on downtown development.

Halifax Co., VA - Police are asking for your help in locating a missing Halifax County woman.

Not only does Virginia International Raceway give visitors a chance to relax and enjoy motorsports in rural surroundings, but it also contributes millions of dollars to the region's economy each year.