A female Army Ranger for the first time competed in the annual Best Ranger Competition, and her two-soldier team finished the ...

An Amherst County grand jury on April 8 indicted a Madison Heights man on second-degree murder in connection with a September 2024 incident.

On today's episode: The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over activism; President Donald Trump may pause tariffs on the auto industry; El Salvador won't return a wrongly ...

The dispute stems from AP's decision not to follow an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, although AP style does cite Trump's wish that it be called the Gulf of America.

At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a herd of African elephants was caught on video running over to protect their young by encircling them during a 5.2 magnitude earthquake.

The hold on Harvard's funding marks the seventh time Trump's administration has attempted to force compliance at one of the nation's most elite colleges.

The Amherst New Era-Progress newsroom brought home 27 awards from the Virginia Press Association’s annual News & Advertising Contest.

At Monday’s hearing, Lynchburg Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nathan Freier introduced exhibits showing that Teresa Proffitt embezzled more than $2.6 million from Davis-Frost Inc. over a five-year ...

Virginia Tech ace Emma Lemley was surprised with a "golden ticket" in a postgame ceremony Sunday night, signifying that she has been drafted into the new Athletes Unlimited Softball League.

Emancipation Day marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. More than 3,000 enslaved people in D.C. were freed eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation in ...

Apparently, loneliness and depression are the new smoking. In fact, recent studies show that loneliness and depression are more dangerous to your life than obesity or using tobacco products. That’s ...