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Brake failure causes truck wreck on U.S. 52
A truck driver from Ohio was injured Thursday when her tractor-trailer lost its brakes and crashed into an embankment on U.S. 52 between Fancy Gap, Va., and Cana, Va.
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Carroll approves list of qualifiers for emergency volunteers
After a 5-0 vote Nov. 16 by the Carroll County Board of Supervisors, Carroll County now has a list of qualifiers and disqualifers to serve on a county fire department or rescue squad.
Pastor Wendell Horton with a Carroll County bruiser
On a Nov. 9 hunt in Carroll County, Wendell Horton spotted two big bucks fighting.
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Helicopter, flashlight lead to huntera s rescue
Like a scene from a Duracell battery commercial, a lost hunter used his flashlight Saturday night to signal a Virginia State Police helicopter.
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Carroll breaks ground on Regional Water
Carroll County PSA members join Congressman Rick Boucher and Laurel Elementary students Cole Mosley and Dale Auton in a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for the Regional Water Project.
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The Virginia Court of Appeals saw no cause to set aside the convictions of murder against a 23-year-old Carroll man in the Nov.
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Carroll County has been my home for seventeen years. I have lived in Hillsville for almost four years now.
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Divorce is an extremely stressful experience. Healing from the trauma of separation and divorce in isolation is exceedingly difficult.
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Four weeks ago, The Carroll News began featuring Weekly Devotion, a weekly religious column on our church page that currently features a roster of five local pastors.
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A 58-year-old Ivanhoe man has no more opportunities to appeal his murder conviction after the Virginia Supreme Court declined to hear his case recently.
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Lambsburg Community Center plays larger role in southern Carroll
From left: Christine Lyons, Doris Lyons and Guy Clark stand proudly in front of fully-stocked bookshelves inside the Lambsburg Community Center.
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By popular demand, online merchant Red Hill General Store will grow its tiny real world retail space by an additional 4,000 square feet.
Related Topix: Hillsville, VA, Home Gardening, Home
Medicaid fraud case investigated
A local psychologist has pleaded guilty to medical assistance fraud and repaid more than $38,000 in Carroll County Circuit Court on Oct.
Related Topix: Psychology, Science, Hillsville, VA
Student arrested for making a bomb threat to Carroll County school
A student has been arrested, accused of making a bomb threat to Carroll County Intermediate School on November 6th.
Crash causing delays on Interstate 77 in Carroll County
A tractor-trailer crash has shut down one southbound lane of Interstate 77 at Fancy Gap, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
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Carroll receives $338,000 in funding for Honeycutt Dam Road water
For the fifth time in 2009, the Carroll County Public Service Authority has been awarded federal economic stimulus funds for a public water and/or wastewater system.
Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Rick Boucher, Woodlawn, VA, US Senate, Jim Webb, Austinville, VA, Lambsburg, VA
Governor's school approves two items
The Governing Board of Southwest Virginia Governor's School Tuesday unanimously approved a math summer camp and policy on premature school withdrawals.
Related Topix: Education Etc.
CCIS students evacuated after threat
The school day at Carroll County Intermediate came to an abrupt end after staff at the school opened an envelope with a double threat inside.
Related Topix: Hillsville, VA
GOP wins big in Carroll, Commonwealth
Elden Horton checks in with Elsie Cochran at Carroll County Intermediate School on Tuesday morning.
Letting people have their say in the appropriate venue is always a good thing. If thinking about a certain topic - say an electric utility's requested rate increase in recessionary times - creates a burning feeling in the pit of a citizen's stomach, it's that person's right to speak up.
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