Campbell County News

Deputies from Amherst County and Campbell County, along with State Police troopers say they've searching for Donald Lee Peters Jr.

Voting may go a little faster Tuesday because electronic poll books will be used to check voters into the polls.

This week's Crime Stoppers report is a pair of break-ins over the past week in Campbell County and Lynchburg.

Lynchburg Police are working with the Campbell County Sheriff's Office to make an arrest in a series of break-ins. Investigators say someone broke into the LaCaretta Mexican Restaurant off Wards Road in the early morning hours of October 22nd.

Current Conditions available on our Weather Page . Font Size: Auto-castings maker Intermet plans to close its Archer Creek Foundry and lay off 192 workers.

Investigators in Bedford County have arrested and charged four men with passing counterfeit money.

An apartment fire in Altavista damaged six units and displaced several residents Monday afternoon.

A Lynchburg woman was found dead in her home on Campbell Avenue after a fire broke out in her living room Monday morning.

Rev. William J. Coleman has been hired as the new president and chief executive officer of Tri-County Community Action Agency, Inc.

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.

Liberty University officials presented preliminary plans Monday to the Campbell County Board of Supervisors to expand the School of Aeronautics and School of Engineering and Computational Sciences.

A four-year-old lawsuit that could cost Campbell County taxpayers millions of dollars came to trial Monday.

Liberty University has plans to build an engineering campus that eventually would accommodate 2,000 students, a small research park and new degree programs for its School of Engineering and Computational Sciences.

Though a bad economy has stalled development at quiet Leesville Lake, commercial growth is inevitable for the Dan River Region's well-kept secret.

State Sen. Robert Hurt, R-Pittsylvania, said yesterday that he will seek the Republican nomination to run for the 5th District congressional seat.

A warehouse belonging to a Campbell County wholesale grocery business burned to the ground this morning.

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.

Route 29 has now reopened following the fire at Greer Wholesale in Campbell County.

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.

Crews are on the scene of a wreck in Campbell County. It happened a little after 9 a.m. at the intersection of Timberlake Road and Waterlick Road.