Giles County News

Cyclists pass by Willow Springs estate on U.S. 42 in Newport on Sunday morning. About 550 bicyclists rode in this year's Mountains of Misery, an annual bike ride hosted by the New River Bicycle Association.

"Jayne Powell will be the featured performer Saturday during the annual Hethwood/Foxbridge and Terrace View spring flings." - "Police in Montgomery County are arresting more drunken drivers, but too few repeat offenders are going to jail, a citizens' group says." - "A rainstorm Tuesday night washed away a fence and the dirt and clay baselines of ... (more)

TV: News, Weather and Sports for Huntsville, ALAmish victim testifies against 80-year-old man accused of sexual abuse An Amish woman who claims she was sexually abused as a young teen gave graphic testimony in a hearing Thursday.

"Though the final decision was a difficult one, the producers believe that logistically and artistically Giles is the best fit for the production and has numerous options for the locations in the film," according to a news release from Life Out Loud Films.

Is editing theA 10 Commandments a good idea? Well, according to the word of God, the answer would be a resounding no.

One of the four Republican Virginia Senate hopefuls sounded off on the Giles County Ten Commandments lawsuit on Wednesday.

When a U.S. District Judge suggested that reducing the Ten Commandments to six would help solve a dispute between the ACLU and The Giles County, Virginia School District, he was wading into deep theological territory...perhaps unknowingly.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia filed a lawsuit on September 13, 2011 in federal district court on behalf of a high school student and the student's parent challenging the posting of Ten Commandments displays in the Giles County, Virginia Public Schools.

The Ten Commandments' place on a hallway wall at Narrows High School is being debated today in federal court.

Liberty Counsel, which represents those it sees as victims of religious injustice, is fighting to allow a display of the Ten Commandments in a Giles County school.

Over the last week, we covered multiple bear cubs that were rescued by local people.

Free-speech groups and a southwest Virginia school division are squaring off over a lawsuit challenging the display of the Ten Commandments in a public high school.

Carilion Clinic's chief of emergency medicine, Dr. John Burton, confirmed potential cases of bath salt overdose have been seen in its Roanoke Memorial Hospital emergency room.

To Tony Robertson and his wife G.G., it looked like a cat or a child's stuffed animal.

Tony Robertson says he and his wife found the 4-pound cub in a puddle of water, over a bluff between narrows and Rich Creek.

After dealing with property taxes last week, a few Montgomery County supervisors might have wanted a stiff drink.