Fans of the Masonic Theatre in Clifton Forge hope a $4 million restoration project that includes new seats, lights, screens and furnishings will revitalize the building and the town.

CLIFTON FORGE — One couple told Wilma McClung they conceived a child inside the Masonic Theatre.

The day the theater closed in 1987, for what turned out to be three years, many with intimate ties to the building grieved. McClung was one.

Blacksburg police announced two more arrests in an armed robbery that took place last week.

Investigators spoke to an alleged victim at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery. That man said he was injured in a Feb. 1 armed robbery in the Nellies Cave Road area of town. The man was treated for a facial injury and cash and a purse were taken from the group he was with, which included two females.

Lawyers have asked potential jurors about their views on alcohol and domestic violence.

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Jury selection continued Tuesday in the case of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in a case that rocked the picturesque campus.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys were seeking a pool of 27 potential jurors from which to choose 12 jurors and three alternates for the first-degree murder trial of George Huguely. He has been charged in the May 2010 death of Yeardley Love, a member of the university women's lacrosse team.

A teacher at Lord Botetourt High School in Botetourt County was convicted by a judge Tuesday of misdemeanor assault and battery after a student accused the teacher of grabbing his shirt in November at the school.

Police said last month the attack on the 56-year-old was not random but have not elaborated.

The man charged with Roanoke's first reported homicide of the year was indicted by a grand jury Monday.

Bill Triplett recently appeared on an episode of the reality show "American Pickers," so unique is his treasure-trove.

Last spring Bill Triplett told the collector from North Carolina he would not sell him the old Garst Brothers Dairy milk truck. Would not.

The man traveled anyway to Triplett's home in Stewartsville to examine the 1938 Divco-brand truck.

The Montgomery County panel is asking for a pay increase and money for new positions.

CHRISTIANSBURG — Undaunted by warnings of a record real estate tax increase — and spurred by Occupy movement supporters' urgings not to cut education — the Montgomery County School Board voted Tuesday to add a pay increase and 16 positions to its budget request.

Carroll County School Board member Olen Gallimore says he wasn’t aware at the time that dirt moved onto his property in Austinville came from soils removed from Carroll County Intermediate School a...

George Huguely pleaded not guilty in the death of his former girlfriend, Yeardley Love, found at her apartment.

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- One by one, potential jurors in the case against George W. Huguely V, who is accused of beating his former girlfriend to death when they were both University of Virginia students, took the witness stand Monday and revealed how hard it could be to seat an impartial jury.

A patrol officer whose alert observations solved multiple theft cases and led to the return of stolen items is Salem's 2011 Police Officer of the Year.