A brush fire burned four acres in a residential area in Madison Heights Saturday afternoon, according to officials.

Wiggington’s defense team believes the jail move was orchestrated to place Wiggington near the informant, so he would provide ...

AMHERST COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - An Amherst County judge is considering a motion by the defense for murder suspect Fred ...

An Amherst County man was killed and another county resident was badly injured in a single-vehicle wreck on March 13 in ...

The Amherst County Commonwealth’s Attorney Office filed a motion Tuesday requesting a judge deny a change of venue request in the case of Justin Jay Sales, a New Hampshire prison inmate charged with ...

AMHERST COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - A man has been sent to a hospital with a possible gunshot wound in Amherst County. The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office and Amherst County Public Safety responded to ...

AMHERST COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — Plans to bring a solar farm to Amherst County are still in limbo after a public hearing at Thursday night's Planning Commission meeting. The company "Energix," who ...

A Madison Heights man is dead from injuries in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Dixie Airport Road and South Amherst Highway in Amherst County ... according to Virginia State Police.

Local law enforcement is looking into card skimming at Central Virginia grocery stores. Lynchburg Police confirm a card skimmer was found at the Wards Road Walmart while Amherst County Sheriff’s ...

Two people in Amherst County Public Schools test positive for COVID-19 AMHERST COUNTY, Va. – School leaders in Amherst County announced Monday that two more people in the school system have ...

One person tests positive for COVID-19 at Amherst Elementary School AMHERST COUNTY, Va. – An individual at Amherst Elementary Schools has been diagnosed with coronavirus on Wednesday ...