Ask cops what concerns them most when it comes to crime in Southwestern Virginia and they usually answer in two words: Crystal meth. Methamphetamine use and production is rising to epidemic levels throughout the area and that use leads to other crime as users turn to robbery and break-ins to finance their habits. Floyd County [...]

As a motorcyclist, I’m always on the watch for critters on the road. Around here, deer pose the greatest threat to those on two wheels. More than a dozen riders have collided with deer in Southwestern Virginia so far this year. Two died. Five others suffered serious injuries. Deer, however, aren’t the only dangers lurking [...]

Chevron and Texaco service stations in Southwestern Virginia began to disappear over the weekend as some locations closed and other changed to other brands of gas under the company’s decision to cease retail fuel operations in the Middle Atlantic, South and other parts of the country. I filled up at a Chevron station on U.S. [...]

Armed robbers storm into a Willis convenience store. A 15-year-old Floyd County girl is lured via the Internet into a car and abducted to Pennsylvania by a predatory couple. A county woman flees an abusive husband in South Boston and comes home. She returns to retrieve her daughter and is gunned down by the husband [...]

The Floyd Country Store closes out a 10 day celebration of its 100th anniversary today with the Sunday afternoon Oldtime Slow Jam, a weekly gathering of musicians who play and sing in a circle in front of the stage from 2 p.m. Guitarist and legendary luthier Wayne Henderson and country piano virtuoso Jeff Little appeared [...]