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.

Students at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine, an idea that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and raised questions about how accessible emergency contraception should be.

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...

Mary Baldwin College said Monday it would build its new college of health sciences facility on 30 acres of land near Goose Creek Road in Fishersville, within a one-mile radius of Augusta Health and the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center.

Three years ago, twin brothers Caleb and Connor Knight came to Talented and Gifted teacher Jenna Frank at Berkeley Glenn Elementary, begging to start a chess club at their school.

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.