Montgomery County News

When James D. Martin was shot dead on an early October evening seven years ago in the parking lot of a grocery store in Wheaton, a northern Washington suburb, it got little attention on the nightly news.

Rik and Melissa Obiso are living proof that wine is taking root in Montgomery County.

Montgomery County election officials had several problems this year that demand further investigation.

Spotsylvania Sheriff Howard Smith remembers the day his county became part of the Beltway Sniper case.

The Montgomery County School Board will see just one new face joining it in January, as voters chose incumbents Phyllis Albritton in District A and Jamie Bond in District D. Bond has been on the board since 2005.

A data-entry error that originated in Montgomery County caused the State Board of Elections to inaccurately report that Leonard Session won the District D seat on the Montgomery County School Board.

Three women, their voices softened by time, chose to be more than victims of a man who also killed a fourth woman.

Local deputies make a donation to help bring the person or people responsible for the murders of Heidi Childs and David Metzler to justice.

Students at Elliston Lafayette Elementary School, Shawsville Elementary School and Christiansburg Primary School received vaccines against H1N1 this week.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in new county bonds to be issued next week by Montgomery County get Fitch Ratings' highest AAA rating.

A Radford City Public Schools teacher who is facing marijuana possession charges in Radford and Montgomery County had a felony charge filed against her Friday.

Don Childs struggles daily with the innocence that his daughter, Heidi Childs and David Metzler went with to Caldwell Fields in Montgomery County this past August.

A councilman introduced a bill in 2007 requiring restaurants with 10 or more facilities nationally to post information on their menus and menu boards in their Montgomery County locations.

The family of the missing Virginia Tech student is offering a $100,000 reward for the safe return of their daughter, Morgan Harrington, or information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Harrington's disappearance.

A Blacksburg police officer faces charges of sexual battery and domestic assault.

Montgomery County residents lined up overnight in a queue that stretched several blocks hoping to get H1N1 flu vaccinations.

Substance abuse touches all areas of today's society. Nowhere is its impact more widely felt than in child service programs - particularly foster care.

One hundred years ago this summer, on the Friday afternoon of June 25, 1909, residents of the New River Valley joined the faculty and students of Christiansburg Industrial Institute in welcoming noted black educator Booker T. Washington to its Cambria campus.

It was an out-of-the-ordinary recess Monday afternoon, Oct. 12, as students at Potomac Elementary dedicated their daily break from studies to the homeless.

A Blacksburg man has been charged with the unlawful photographing of another person after police say he took an inappropriate picture of a woman on a Blacksburg Transit bus.