Augusta County News

A state trooper and two deputies say an Augusta County man admitted smoking synthetic marijuana just before a fatal crash in 2010, but prosecutors may not be able to use that evidence.

Worst Memorial Day crash: An eastbound 2003 BMW on I-64 on Afton Mountain hits the guardrail on the right around 5:30pm May 28, veers back across the eastbound lanes, hits an embankment, becomes airborne, rolls upside down, and strikes the cab of a westbound tractor trailer.

Stuarts Draft Elementary Physical Education Teacher Sean Baska told 5th-graders he would let them dye his hair any color if they scored 80-percent on the writing SOL test and they succeeded.

The school system has a crisis plan in place to deal with similar situations. Additional counselors and psychologists have been sent in to help.

An Augusta County man accused of molesting two young girls may avoid serving any prison time.

A judge has denied bond to the suspect in a Fishersville shooting. Jerad Ross, 22, of Maryland faces three felony charges, including attempted murder.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will hold a citizen information meeting to discuss a proposed study on improving traffic safety and management systems for the section of Interstate 64, eastbound and westbound, that starts at mile marker 96 in Augusta County and extends to mile marker 107 in Albemarle County.

Augusta County authorities say a 10-year-old boy has died after the golf cart he was driving near his home overturned.

A 4-year-old girl was taken to St. Mary's Hospital on Monday after she was found floating in a pool at an apartment complex in Henrico County, police said.

An Augusta County family is mourning the loss of their 10-year-old son, who died in an ATV accident.

Augusta County sheriff's investigators searched for both a motive and weapon on Friday in the shooting of a man outside the Skyline Motel the day before.

At least, that's what 20-year-old Frank Sprouse thought of himself, and in the summer of 1906, this self-proclaimed "Jesse James" came as close to snagging the title as anyone.

Mary Gordon, 107, of Waynesboro celebrated her birthday on Friday at the Old Schoolhouse Restaurant in Stuarts Draft with three generations of family including her 4-month-old great-granddaughter Layla Dawson.

The Virginia Department of Transportation is launching safety service patrols on several portions of interstate highways in western Virginia, including Interstate 64 and Interstate 81 in Augusta County.

Comments: The kitchen is currently in the process of a deep cleaning. Employees were observed washing their hands and wearing gloves when handling ready-to-eat foods.

In pursuit of a shooting suspect: Augusta County Sheriff's officers pursued and captured a suspect in a shooting at Skyline Motel in Fishersville on Thursday, May 24.

The designer drug known as 'bath salts' is no longer just Augusta County's problem.

Fire and Rescue Chief Carson Holloway oversees Augusta County's emergency responders and makes sure they can get to you in an emergency.

But driving with an open container of alcohol? At more than 100 miles per hour in a sports car? And a police officer behind the wheel no less? That was the situation an Augusta County deputy was faced with Tuesday shortly before 11 a.m. on Interstate 81 at mile marker 221.

A divided Augusta County Board of Supervisors voted to back a state plan to reroute part of Va.