Appomattox News

Pittyslvania County sheriff's deputies J.L. Dooley and Chad Eikost find the broken end of a knife while investigating an attempted breaking and entering at 3604 Reeves Mill Road on Feb.

In the next couple of weeks, inspectors will be going to many Appomattox businesses checking for a very important device - it's called a backflow preventer.

The Appomattox County Sheriff's Office uncovered an indoor marijuana growing operation Thursday after serving a narcotics search warrant, officials said.

The first rounds of American Idol 2012 auditions started off earlier this week, with judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, and Steven Tyler giving their commentary.

Investigators think that Christopher Bryan Speight, 41, killed his sister, brother-in-law and 4-year-old son two days before fatally shooting five others.

Prosecutors now believe some of those slain in a 2010 multiple shooting in Appomattox County died two days before originally believed.

APPOMATTOX, Va. -- You drive over the long sloping hills of State Highway 460, watching the farms and thick trees slip over the horizon, how they rise and rise until you begin to think they are an endless procession speeding past in an infinite blur.

During the winter months, weather can affect scheduled events. The local weather looks good for the week ahead this week.

The Botetourt County Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism is sponsoring a bus trip to the gospel musical at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Greensboro, N.C. IN the performance, The fresh-out-of-seminary Rev.