In from the frigid morning air, employees at Mohawk Industries caught a second cold shock early Monday when officials informed them that they will be without jobs by the end of the year.

A scrap trailer has overturned on Afton Mountain just off the Interstate 64 exit ramp, blocking travel in both lanes to drivers on U.S. 250.

Doctors at the Wildlife Center of Virginia removed a lesion from the bird’s beak last year.

An Eagle Scout working at a Boy Scouts of America camp intentionally set the fire that killed him, Virginia State Police said Monday.

You’ll have to hold it a little longer if you’re driving in Virginia beginning today.

Stuarts Draft man asked an undercover police agent to kill his ex-wife and her boyfriend for $700, then talked the price down to $400 before being arrested, according to testimony during a preliminary hearing Thursday.

Frustrated by what he considered a lenient sentence recommended by attorneys, a Waynesboro judge Wednesday sent a sex offender to prison for 15 years for molesting two girls.

Two Staunton men charged with killing a former roommate and arrested in Florida returned to Rockingham County today.

Authorities said a helicopter trimming trees for electrical purposes crashed late this morning behind the residences of 2668 and 2670 Cold Springs Road near Greenville.

A word identifying a religion originally practiced in Cuba identifying Yoruba deities with Roman Catholic saints tripped up Staunton teen Andrew Traylor in the fifth round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.

A Staunton man shot his wife then himself Tuesday night in an apparent murder-suicide in a home not known for trouble.

Two Nelson County men were arrested today in connection with last Wednesday’s death of 73-year-old Opal Page, of Afton.

A 73-year-old woman was found dead in her home late Wednesday, a Nelson County sheriff’s deputy said this morning.

A 12-screen cinema, offices, restaurants and housing have been proposed on 42 acres off Windigrove Drive and Interstate 64 near Home Depot in Waynesboro, city officials said Tuesday.

“It’s a huge letdown,“ Invista worker Christopher Bean, 31, of Churchville, said this morning. “I’ve been here for more than a year now.“

WAYNESBORO — A baby bald eagle is recuperating after a two-hour surgery Saturday morning to remove remnants of a golf ball-sized growth and fix its criss-crossed beak.

Baghdad’s presidential palace loudly echoed with rocket fire during the 10 months that Staunton’s 116th Brigade Combat Team was stationed there to provide support for Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander of Operation Iraqi Freedom troops.

Alleged Interstate 64 sniper Slade Woodson was indicted by a Waynesboro grand jury today on six felony charges stemming from two early-morning shooting incidents in the city.

The 16-year-old juvenile who plead guilty in an Albemarle County court Wednesday to participation in the string of shootings on and near I-64 in March is now facing charges in Waynesboro as well, police said.

Dave Morris and his wife, Elizabeth, of Waynesboro, received a $1.35 million settlement Wednesday in a case stemming from the September 2001 birth of their son.
Asphyxiated at birth, Hunter has cerebral palsy and brain damage. He will never live independently.

Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old Afton man facing charges for a string of shootings in Waynesboro and on Interstate 64 last month, appeared in a Waynesboro court this morning for an advisement on two new charges in the city.

Slade Woodson, the 19-year-old Afton man facing indictments for a string of shootings in Waynesboro and on Interstate 64 last week, appeared in a Waynesboro court Monday morning..

Several shots were fired at the Dupont Community Credit Union on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro early Thursday morning, hitting a window and exterior wall, as well as a sign and a repossessed van parked in front of the building, police said.

The Virginia State Police shut down more than a 20-mile stretch of I-64 in either direction after shootings wounded two people shortly after midnight.

Driven by steady winds, a fire spread across 1,000 acres of isolated, steep, rocky terrain Wednesday in St. Mary’s Wilderness near Steeles Tavern as federal park officials and anxious residents looked on.
“I stayed up all night last night watching it,” said Lawrence Phillips, 62, who lives along Spy Creek Lane in a residential area near the blaze. “When there’s a fire nearby, you’re always worried.”