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Six displaced in fire

(Danville) — Six people and a pet were displaced in a Monday night house fire in Danville. The call came in as a kitchen fire at 301 Briarwood Drive. The first units saw light smoke coming from the rear of the house. All the occupants were outside and accounted for, but crews searched anyway... Read More

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December 4, 2024

PLAN Danville report adopted

(Danville) — A long road has ended for Danville planners. A special committee worked nearly two years in an effort called “PLAN Danville.” Danville City Council unanimously approved a final report from the PLAN Danville Commission Tuesday. Planning Director Renee Burton says they talked to 13-thousand people during the two-year long drafting process. “The comprehensive... Read More

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December 4, 2024

Council approves assisted living/residential development

(Danville) — A developer will get to build an assisted living community in Danville. City Council Tuesday approved three requests from Joe Cubas. He’ll get to put 240 condos and 180 assisted living units on an 11-and-a-half acre lot at the southeastern corner of Goodyear Boulevard and the Danville Expressway. Cubas is combining the assisted... Read More

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December 4, 2024

Council advances effort to move city departments

(Danville) — City leaders have begun the process of moving two departments to the former White Mill. Danville City Council Tuesday approved a first reading on a plan to renovate nearly 86-hundred square feet on the second floor to house the city’s Office of Economic Development. They’ll also renovate over 12-thousand square feet on... Read More

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December 3, 2024

Local schools split state security grants

(Richmond) — Several local schools are getting a share of $12 million in school security equipment grants from the Virginia Department of Education. The money will be used for voice and video internal communication systems, mass notification systems, security card access systems, visitor ID badging systems, surveillance cameras, two-way radios, security vestibules,... Read More

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December 3, 2024

Pets die in Pitt. Co. house fire

(Penhook) — A Gretna volunteer lost his home and his two pets in a Sunday house fire. Gretna Fire and Rescue reports volunteer paramedic Bill Van Gils was on duty Sunday when a call went out for a fire that had broken out at his home on Armstrong Road in the Penhook community, near the... Read More

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December 2, 2024

Danville firefighters make two trips to one home

(Danville) — Danville Firefighters had to make a couple of trips over the weekend to a house that caught fire. And it wasn’t their first trip there. The first call came Friday at 5:44 PM, from 181 Kimberly Avenue off of West Main Street. The first crews found a house with heavy fire and smoke... Read More

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December 2, 2024

Sentencing set in Pitt. Co. murder

(Chatham) — A Pittsylvania County man convicted for a murder two-and-a-half years ago will learn his fate this week. In August, Daniel Wayne Neal was found guilty of first-degree murder in the February, 2022 death of Charles Van Hooker. It happened at Van Hooker’s home on Boxwood Road in Gretna. Deputies found Van Hooker’s... Read More

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December 2, 2024

Utility proposes line improvements to serve solar project

(Chatham) — A local utility wants to build new lines to connect with a solar farm in Pittsylvania County. Appalachian Power wants to rebuild about a mile of the transmission line and build nine miles more of lines to increase the capacity for the Blue Ridge Solar farm in Pittsylvania County. The project will also... Read More

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December 2, 2024

Halifax County man charged in cold murder case

(Halifax) — One of Southside’s most infamous missing persons case was cracked over the weekend. A Halifax County man is charged with killing his wife who disappeared seven years ago. Investigators this weekend arrested 67-year-old Russell Wayne Layne (pictured) for the murder of his wife, Emma Compton Layne. She was reported missing in June of 2017.... Read More

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