Wytheville News

A 45-year-old Wytheville man died Sunday afternoon after a golf cart overturned with him, police said.

Two hours after polls opened, only 7 percent or 1,402 of Pulaski County's 21,141 registered voters had cast ballots in Tuesday's general election.

Tuesday's general election produced at least one major upset on the local level.

Four people are accused of kidnapping and beating a Wytheville man. Deputies say they were called to Carroll drive Tuesday night and found Eddie Blankenship badly beaten.

Growing up in Wytheville, Bryan Underwood learned that exposure to first-rate local musical events was severely lacking.

The full tobacco commission met Thursday in Wytheville. In addition to $3 million in new tobacco money designated for county projects, on Thursday the commission also consolidated three previous grants for the Modeling and Simulation Center for Excellence and the Riverstone Energy Center, both housed at Riverstone Technology Park.

Plan B for Wythe County's long-discussed Appalachian Agricultural Exposition Center got an "A+" grade Tuesday from the Wythe County Board of Supervisors.

Wythe County's top prosecutor confirmed this week that police are looking into whether "dusting" - inhaling cans of compressed gas to get high - could have played a role in last weekend's head-on crash that killed two sisters.

Thanks to Ken Johnson, thousands of people around the country are seeing "Wytheville, VA" and thinking "There's Nowhere I'd Rather Be." Johnson, 62, won a national contest when his painting was selected by AARP members to appear on the cover of the AARP Foundation's 2010 calendar.

Five former employees of the Wytheville branch of Carter Bank and Trust were indicted on embezzlement charges last week.

Two women were killed and two more injured on Sunday evening in a head-on crash on Chapman Road in Wythe County.

State Police say two people are dead, following an accident on Chapman Road in Wytheville Sunday night.

Delegate Anne B. Crockett-Stark has a new TV ad running. It hits on all the key points that a good conservative would want to see in a 30-second spot: "Annie B is working for tax incentives to bring new businesses and jobs." "She's fighting higher taxes that hurt struggling families." "She's working to grow our economy and not our government." And, ...

The second armed robbery in Wytheville this month is under investigation by the Wytheville Police Department.

After months of scouting potential locations for a community based outpatient clinic in Wytheville, the Veterans Administration has picked a site.

Apparently sparked by an electric wall heater in a bathroom, a Wednesday morning blaze gutted a single-story Wytheville residence.

Doug Price of Tractor Supply in Gloucester displays about half of the 350 or so applications he received recently for 25 positions at the new store, which opens in November.

The Marquee Cinemas held their third quarterly promotional event of the year on Saturday, October 3rd with the double feature re-release of the Disney-Pixar animated classics Toy Story and Toy Story 2. Released in theaters for a limited two-week run, the two films were presented in Disney Digital 3D in an effort to hype viewers up for the unveiling ...

Brandi Davis, medical massage therapist, will present a demonstration on the benefits of massage therapy during cancer treatments at the Smyth County Cancer Support Group meeting Tuesday, Oct.

BRISTOL, Va. - Model train aficionado Tom Harris had a problem: how could he manage the many scale trains in the staging area behind a wall while another engine click-clacks along the track.