A Lynchburg man has been arrested and faces several charges following a pursuit in Washington County.

Ten Washington County High School students were injured while touring Virginia Tech after falling through a grate, Virginia Tech said.

The National Weather Service has issued tornado warnings for parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia, hours after a harsh storm hit a remote area of central Kentucky, killing one person and injuring seven others.

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The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television star convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images.

Tyson Foods has suspended a great-grandson of the company’s founder after his arrest on charges of driving while intoxicated.

Officials say a tractor-trailer hauling about 15 million bees to be used to pollinate blueberry fields crashed and overturned on Interstate 95 in Maine.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished.

A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project honoring veterans is abandoning the idea.

A man has been convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a young woman after the SUV she was riding in mistakenly drove into his rural driveway in upstate New York.

An Iowa man is under arrest in the death of a Catholic priest who was stabbed in the rectory of his a small Nebraska church.

Authorities say a man suspected of killing a Maryland judge last week has been found dead in a heavily wooded area about a mile from where authorities had earlier spotted the his abandoned SUV.

When it emerged this week that U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana, the news lit up the world of weed.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has delivered a recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration on marijuana policy, and Senate leaders are hailing it as a first step toward easing federal restrictions on the drug.

A Washington County man is facing several charges for allegedly hitting a VDOT employee with his vehicle and then fleeing the scene, according to Virginia State Police.

When Kaylin Gillis and her friends took a wrong turn into an upstate New York driveway last weekend, they wound up on the property of a man bitter about people driving onto his land by mistake.

A federal appeals court panel is considering whether to reverse the child pornography conviction of former reality TV star Josh Duggar.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is searching for two inmates who escaped from an Abingdon jail Thursday afternoon, one of which is a convicted murderer.

A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek.

The operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 barrels of heavy crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek says it has permission from U.S. government regulators to reopen the repaired segment where the rupture occurred.

The operator of a pipeline with a large onshore crude oil spill has reopened all of it except for the stretch in Kansas and northern Oklahoma that includes the site of the rupture.

The company operating a pipeline that leaked about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek is recovering at least a small part of it.

Federal data shows a spill from the Keystone pipeline this week dumped enough oil to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool into a northeastern Kansas creek.

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A woman who said she was left to give birth to her baby alone on the dirty floor of her jail cell in Maryland last year is suing, alleging that jail nurses ignored her screams and pleas for help for six hours.

A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.

A West Virginia man has been charged with killing three co-workers at a western Maryland machine shop as well as attempted murder and other charges.

A federal jury in Arkansas has convicted former reality TV star Josh Duggar of downloading and possessing child pornography.

A federal jury in Arkansas has begun deliberations in the trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is accused of receiving and possessing child pornography.

The defense has rested in the Arkansas federal trial of former reality TV star Josh Duggar after a prosecutor sharply questioned a computer expert during cross-examination.

Computer forensics experts have testified that a computer used by Josh Duggar at work contained child pornography behind a partition that allowed the user to circumvent an application that monitors internet use.

A federal judge says that jurors in Josh Duggar's child pornography trial can hear evidence that the former reality TV star molested four girls nearly 20 years ago.

Jury selection is set to begin in former reality TV star Josh Duggar's trial over federal child pornography charges.

A federal judge has denied motions to suppress video evidence found on electronic devices seized from former reality TV star Josh Duggar, who is facing child pornography charges.

Attorneys for former reality TV star Josh Duggar have filed motions seeking to dismiss child pornography charges against him.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar's trial on child pornography charges has been moved to November.

Virginia State Police is investigating a deputy-involved shooting Washington County that happened Thursday morning.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has been released from an Arkansas jail as he awaits trial on federal charges that he possessed and downloaded child pornography.

A person is dead after a crash that happened in Washington County on Saturday, according to Virginia State Police.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar has been charged with receiving and possessing child pornography.

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar faces charges of downloading and possessing child pornography under a federal indictment unsealed Friday.

The Appomattox County Raiders continued their dominance on Friday night en route to a 48-21 win over Glenvar in the Region 2C title game.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Wis. – A Wisconsin football coach was fired after officials say he attended a scrimmage game knowing that he may have been positive for COVID-19. Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann said that the coach had been feeling ill with symptoms of COVID-19 and went to his doctor’s office for a test last Thursday. It was during the game that county contact tracers from the health department called the coach. “He got that phone call as he was walking onto the field or as he was on the field, and made the decision that he needed to be at that scrimmage,” Schoemann says. When the Kewaskum Gridiron Youth Football league learned of the coach’s diagnosis, they fired him immediately and looked at game film to see who he came into contact with.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Va. – State police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that left a 16-year-old boy dead and several others hurt. It happened just before 7 p.m. on Saturday in Washington County on Route 19 (Porterfield Hwy) at Route 633 ( Black Hollow Road). There were four people in the Chrysler, including a 16-year-old boy from Abingdon who was taken to Johnston Memorial Hospital, where he later died from his injuries from the crash, according to Virginia State Police. The Chrysler’s driver, a 33-year-old man of Abingdon, wasn’t hurt in the crash, according to Virginia State Police. The Honda CR-V’s driver, Kayla Byrd, 35, of Abingdon, was taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries, according to Virginia State Police.

GALAX, Va. – On Friday afternoon, we learned about second coronavirus cases in both the city of Galax and Washington County. Both this new case, as well as the first case reported in Galax are associated with international travel, according to health department officials. In the Virginia Department of Health count, only one of these two cases will appear because cases are reported based on the individual’s locality of residence. Washington County second case is associated with out-of-state and out-of-area travel. “We continue to see new cases of COVID-19 throughout the Commonwealth, and it’s now in our area.

As of Tuesday, with VDH now reporting 680,065 coronavirus cases statewide, 11,412 Virginians have died so far after contracting it.

PULASKI COUNTY, Va. – A missing 8-year-old boy was found in Pulaski County on Sunday after his mother reported him missing earlier that day. The woman also apparently told police that it wasn’t until she reached Exit 24 in Washington County that she realized her son wasn’t in the car with her. She couldn’t describe where she used the restroom, according to Virginia State Police. Police immediately began an extensive search and notified other law enforcement agencies in the area from Augusta County to Washington County. At 7:05 p.m., the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office notified state police that the boy had been found and that he was safe.

ROANOKE, Va. - Thousands are without power as storms and wind move through the region. As of 3:29 p.m. Friday, Appalachian Power is reporting more than 9,000 customers in Virginia have lost power. The highest concentration of outages is as follows:Nelson County - 1,651Franklin County - 1,115Patrick County - 1,070Carroll County - 686Henry County - 396Roanoke County - 394For the full list of outages, check Appalachian Power's website. As a result of the storms and wind on Thursday and Friday, at one point, more than 20,000 Virginians were without power. Copyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.

Photo by Washington County Sheriffs Office via Getty Images(CNN) - Henry Thomas, best known his role as Elliott in the 1982 film "E.T. Subsequent investigation by officers resulted in Thomas, 48, being arrested and charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants. Thomas was transported to the Washington County Jail, according to Massey. made Thomas a child star when the film debuted in 1982. He was released from custody Tuesday morning on his own recognizance, according to a Washington County Jail spokesperson.

- Authorities say an HIV-positive man has been charged with raping a boy on the Appalachian Trail in western Maryland. The Herald-Mail reports that 43-year-old Jason Henry Cochrane, of Millersville, is charged with sex abuse of a minor, second-degree rape and other counts in Washington County. Maryland Natural Resources Police said in court documents that officers were called Saturday morning to the Pine Knob Shelter on the Appalachian Trail near the border with Frederick County. Officers found Cochrane and an adolescent boy in a camping tent north of the shelter that contained condoms and sex toys. Police say DNA tests confirmed sexual contact and that Cochrane gave the boy crystal meth.

Severe weather season is upon us, and has proven active for us thus far. Close to 1,700 tornadoes spun up across the United States that year, and nearly 25% of those tornadoes came over a four-day span. This unleashed what we now know as the April, 27 2011 tornado outbreak. If you go anywhere from Alabama to New York, chances are people know about the tornado outbreak of April 27, 2011. More tornadoes were confirmed in last week's severe weather event.