It was a common theme among the speakers at the first day of the Eastern Coal Council conference Monday: a hope that this year’s presidential election will change everything.

For one Danville mom, her son finally being able to drink from a sippy cup at age 7 was monumental.

LuLu made it back home, sort of.

On Monday afternoon, Wanda Goade peaked out her office window at BlackWolfPlazato see a mangy German shepherd trotting through the parking lot.

Sandy Ratliff turned a family tragedy into a career.

A Buchanan Countynative, Ratliff was raised in a coal-mining family.

Sullivan County Register of Deeds Bart Long blasted county commissioners Monday for being fiscally irresponsible, but that didn’t stop them from appropriating an extra $144,500 to the sheriff anyway.

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Three people nearState Streetwere “wearing confederate flag capes.”

In a 5-2 vote Monday night, the Washington County Planning Commission voted not to recommend approval of a truck stop at Interstate 81’s Exit 24.

TDOT says to expect possible delays through noon Tuesday.

The Carter County Clerk's Office issued the arrest of a man and held him in jail for two days. Now, they say, it was all a mistake.

Danville City Council does not have enough votes to refuse the $2.1 million loan to the school system to keep Gibson Middle School open this year, or to pass a local cigarette tax of 30 cents a pack, it was determined in a work session Monday night.